Mark Thompson 

 First the good News...

It’s been a long time coming (decades in fact), but at last the BBC’s director-general, Mark Thompson, has admitted left-wing bias at the BBC. There was ‘in the BBC I joined thirty years ago..in much of current affairs, in terms of people’s personal politics , which were quite vocal, a massive bias to the left,’ he said. The station was ‘massively’ biased against Margaret Thatcher.

So far, so good. Even if one is or was not a fan of Margaret Thatcher, no publicly funded organisation like the BBC has a right to be biased against any point of view which enjoys widespread support. Minority views also need to be treated with impartiality, unless they are those which advocate downright genocide, like some moslem organisations in the Middle East, or murder, like the IRA.

                                                                                  Orla Guerin

As it happens, the BBC has long had a soft spot for those (of a certain kind, naturally) advocating genocide and murder.  Like its siamese twin in the public prints, the Guardian, it has for decades been soft on any leftist, anti-British or anti-Western ideology, organisation or state, however murderous, ranging from the IRA and the Soviet Union to New Labour. It continues to favour the Palestinian cause, including  such organsations as Hamas which want the complete obliteration of Israel and the Israelis. Its reporter Orla Guerin actually cried on the death of that evil man Yasser Arafat, a nephew of the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem who consorted with the Nazis and is reported as saying to a jewish acquaintance, 'Remember, Abbady, this was and will remain an Arab land..... the Zionists will be massacred to the last man.' Arafat did not noticeably disagree with his uncle in any important respect.   

But then the Bad News

Mark Thompson thinks that the bad days of bias are all in the past. ‘It is (now) a broader church. The BBC is not a campaigning organisation and can’t be.’ He claimed. Oh, but it is a campaigning organisation, Mr Thompson. Not campaigning in a flag-waving, militant, at-the-barricades way of course, but in a subtle, understated way; the way in which the idea is projected that certain politically correct assumptions are not just to be preferred, but are the only ones around which a thinking, decent, civilised person might have, to the extent that no other attitudes are even considered or discussed, unless it is to condemn them.

Current Affairs Bias

This bias is not restricted to current affairs programmes, of which the Question Time programme which attempted to crucify Nick Griffin (but not the Stalin-loving Jack Straw who appeared with him) may be counted as one. For example, as your present writer can attest, there have been umpteen programmes on BBC TV and radio over the last thirty years or so about the alleged difficulties immigrants have faced in Britain. You could however count on the fingers of one hand the programmes in that period devoted to the far greater, and to the native population vastly more interesting question of how the latter feel about the immigrant invasion of their homeland.

And such programmes invariably feature a preponderance of carefully selected individuals who either are in favour of multiculturalism and multiracialism or are indifferent, whilst those against are stigmatised as ‘racists’ and ‘fascists’ whose  views are a function of their ignorant bigotry, rather than of a perfectly reasonable human desire to live in their own country amongst their own people in their own way.

All this is in line with the reply given by a senior BBC executive to Jeff Randall, at the time the BBC's business editor but who now writes for the 'Telegraph.' When Randall complained about the BBC's bias in favour of multiculturalism, he was told outrageously that, 'the BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism. It believes in it and promotes it.'

Bias exists in every Corner of the BBC's Vast Empire 

And the subtle PC bias continues and extends to every corner of the BBC’s vast empire. Here are just a couple of very recent examples: the School Head in the new series of ‘Waterloo Road’ is a woman, in line with the fact that it is now more or less de rigueur for the head of anything in BBC shows to be female or ethnic and preferably both, and to be seen to have authority over men, especially white men.

Meanwhile, over at ‘Holby City,’ a show which even more than most soaps on TV and the BBC in particular creaks with Political Correctness to the point of caricature, the saintly Ric Griffin, the consultant and hospital director is described by a ‘feisty’ female patient with the liberal views on sex, marriage etc we are encouraged to sympathise with, as ‘noble,’ while another patient says he is a ‘magician,’ so good a surgeon is he.   

                                                                                    Saint Ric

The wonderfully competent and noble Ric is of course black. Other in-charge medics remarkable for their efficiency are either ethnic or female - including a female surgeon. (Female surgeons are in plentiful supply only in the BBC's PC alternative universe.  In reality female medics tend to go into other fields). The depiction of the Ric character, as of so much else in this and other BBC shows, is pure propaganda - a deliberate attempt in this case to fix a positive image of immigrants and immigration in the public mind. When ethnic characters are criticised, like some of the nurses in  Holby City Hospital, it tends to be on the grounds that they are too efficient or gung ho, not because they are incompetent, lazy or have serious character flaws. That treatment tends to be reserved for native British characters.

This  is cultural marxism in full flow: a PC lie which like all PC lies spits in the face of reality. As recently pointed out by Sarah Maid of Albion, a remarkable preponderance of doctors and others in the medical field who have undergone disciplinary proceedings for incompetence and other lapses by their respective professional organisations have been immigrants.

Is Thompson a Liar or is he biased to the Point of Stupidity?

If Mark Thompson doesn’t grasp this, it is either because he personally is so politically correct that he can’t see out of that particular box, a condition which seems to afflict most BBC people, or he is lying. Lying because the BBC is facing cuts in its license fee. Either way, it does not bode well for the BNP and non-PC views in general ever getting a fair showing on the organisation we all pay for.