Not so much anti Trump bias, but the Wiki page of Andrew Marr is interesting.
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Couple of interesting bits:
Regarding his political affiliations, he was formerly a Maoist and a member of the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, an offshoot of the International-Communist League, now known as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. At Cambridge, Marr says he was a "raving leftie" who handed out copies of Mao's Little Red Book and he acquired the nickname Red Andy
At an October 2006, BBC seminar discussing impartiality, Marr highlighted alleged bias within the BBC. He stated: "The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias
Mr Marr has been a big boy at the BBC for some time now.
Worth noting that the stuff there about Marr being a Maoist and raving Leftie was while he was at Cambridge. It's quite possible of course that during that period he was signed up by the then KGB and subsequently 'planted' himself in the nation's largest Broadcaster. But perhaps more likely it's simply that he was a
young idealist like so many are, and later grew out of it. A little like yourself Mr. Nuts, from stuff you have said here before? That's not a dig by the way, being a young idealist and then realising the cold realities of life as you get older is entirely normal of course.
His quoted comment:
It's [the BBC] a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities, and gay people. It has a liberal bias, not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias is self-evident, and something which I have personally observed many times here. To be honest it's the nature of the beast, and when I say that I mean the beast of Broadcasting itself, the very same traits are in other broadcasters too, regardless of whether they're funded by licence-fee or advertising - just like teaching and some other professions (or perhaps,
vocations?) they will tend to attract certain types of people.
Young, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed people who want to be heard and make a difference, will be going in at the bottom rung. Of course their management will be older, senior management older still, and some of that will have rubbed off, but they'll retain a large degree of that idealism. The liberal bias thing is real, when that spills out uncontrollably which it does from time to time, it needs to be admitted and apologised for, which I think explains the Maitlis business. Naga Munchetty too, and I was surprised that she wasn't admonished for calling Trump a racist, or at least saying he spoke like one (something like that). I suspect when the dyed-in-the-wool luvvie that is Tony Hall has gone (very soon) then the correct balance will again be achieved.
