Re: Tom Mills - What the BBC can learn from its journalists' use of Twitter Archived Message Posted by scrabb on December 9, 2020, 5:12 pm, in reply to "Tom Mills - What the BBC can learn from its journalists' use of Twitter" The evidence seems to suggest that the BBC leans to the centre right. Our findings on the Labour party factions confirm claims by Corbyn supporters that the former leader’s critics in the party were given inordinate attention by the BBC. This is underscored by the fact that Corbyn himself – who had by far the largest Twitter following of any MP – was followed by fewer BBC journalists than either his predecessor, Ed Miliband, then deputy leader Tom Watson, or Change UK’s leading light, Chuka Umunna. [My emphasis] I've long noted how the right and centre-right try to pull the same trick over and over of labelling the BBC as "left-wing" or full of "lefties" so that it becomes the accepted and unquestioned narrative without any evidence to back it. In fact the evidence, as shown in this survey, points in exactly the opposite direction -- the BBC overwhelmingly supports (cf, Kuenssberg) the status quo especially when it happens to be of a right-wing persuasion. Of course the right-wing establishment are aware of this deceit which is precisely why they keep up the fiction that the BBC is riddled with lefties. Anyone with a grain of critical perception can see after watching ten minutes of BBC news and current affairs output that the left-wing label is ludicrous. Message Thread: Tom Mills - What the BBC can learn from its journalists' use of Twitter - johnhol December 9, 2020, 3:49 pm Re: Tom Mills - What the BBC can learn from its journalists' use of Twitter - scrabb December 9, 2020, 5:12 pm   Searching