Beeb bias?
Jess Brammar appointed new
executive news editor.
… former editor of Left-wing website HuffPost UK, Brammar recently tried (and failed) to erase evidence of her hard-Left sympathies by deleting more than 16,000 Twitter posts.
They included tweets from the last election campaign in which she repeatedly called Boris Johnson a liar, claimed that 'Black Brits' were 'genuinely considering leaving the UK because of the level of racism, particularly if Boris Johnson wins' and gleefully promoted 'the group of young women behind the #FCKBoris posters' on the London Underground.
Elsewhere, she has argued that the term 'woke' is a 'dogwhistle'…
On other occasions, Brammar has accused the former foreign secretary Dominic Raab of being sexually insecure on the grounds that he once said he was 'probably not' a feminist, described a shortage of home-testing sexual health kits as the 'reality of austerity Britain', endorsed the view that 'transphobia is rife in the gender-based violence sector', and so on.
Lewis Goodall, the
policy editor of Newsnight, has never sought to hide his hard-Left agenda.
While studying history and politics at Oxford, he began writing opinion pieces for The Guardian, which described him as a Labour Party activist and blogger, and after graduating he worked for the Left-wing Institute for Public Policy Research.
In 2018, he wrote a book singing the praises of Jeremy Corbyn called Left for Dead? The Strange Death and Rebirth of the Labour Party.
By then, he was a political correspondent for Sky News with a reputation for using social media to mount vigorous attacks on Brexit and the Tory party.
When Boris Johnson was at the centre of a row in 2018 over his remarks likening Muslim women wearing burkas to letterboxes and bank robbers, Mr Goodall compared him to the late Tory MP Enoch Powell, and accused him of fuelling racist attacks.
'Burkagate reminds us you can say whatever you like in Britain, be rude or even prejudiced and be respected for it, so long as you're posh and powerful,' he argued, saying Johnson's remark 'legitimises the prejudices of others, further down the class food chain – it suggests that certain things which probably ought not to be alright, in fact are.
That is why I give the suggestion that there has been an increase in the numbers of attacks on women wearing the niqab in recent days absolute credibility.'
Later, when Johnson became PM and prorogued Parliament, Mr Goodall used Twitter to accuse him of 'embarrassing the Queen', which he described as 'astounding'.
He added that the Tory party was increasingly 'willing to tolerate a leader who does things/says things they never would have been willing to countenance previously just because they think he'll bring them electoral success', adding that it mimicked the 'slow nervous breakdown on the Right' in the US.
Naturally, he sailed into a job at the BBC where he continued his outspoken attacks on the Tory government, one of them last year in a cover story for the Left-wing New Statesman magazine, headlined: 'Failed: How the Government's ineptitude created a lost generation.'
A couple of weeks back, BBC bosses forced him to delete a tweet describing critics of Brammar's appointment as 'unhinged' and 'misogynistic'.
Newsnight host Emily Maitlis has had many complaints against her upheld over her extreme leftism (for brevity I won’t cite them all here.
Similarly Radio One, Nick Rotherham was in 2018 made inaugural chairman of the BBC's 'Under 30s News Panel', a committee created to help promising young journalists shape the future of its current affairs output. Last summer, he was promoted to '
senior news editor, commissioning‘.
BBC Breakfast host Naga Munchetty had to be ‘reminded of her responsibilities’ by the corporation because she ‘liked’ a series of anti-Conservative tweets after she and co-host Charlie Stayt had ridiculed then housing minister Robert Jenrick for having a Union flag and a portrait of the Queen in his office.
Many others connected with news who should be non-political in order to do their job.
But what of Strictly? Or ‘culture’?
Miranda Wayland has been appointed as the BBC’s
Head of Creative Diversity. This newly created role, which reports to June Sarpong,
Director of Creative Diversity. I don’t know h about her except she claimed Idris Elba's character John Luther "isn't black enough."
I don’t have much to hand on the Strictly execs, but the dominant culture seems apparent throughout. And when the Beeb have been robustly accused of left wing bias they appoint a known
External Link/Members Only to head the internal enquiry. You couldn’t make it up!
