Watch the programme it is staring you in the face and assaulting your eardrums. Failing that the interweb is full of itOriginally Posted by Jamesey
This is a totally ridiculous accusation!
I'd like to see your evidence to back this up?
http://biasedbbc.org/blog/2013/03/08...question-time/
http://www.thecommentator.com/articl..._very_far_left
http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/ja...ystery-solved/
http://boards.dailymail.co.uk/news-b...ards-left.html
The political sway of the audience on Question Time is governed by the leanings of the area where the episode is filmed, the BBC has admitted.
Director-general Mark Thompson has revealed that the audience is selected to reflect the voter make-up in the region from which each edition of the topical debate show is broadcast – rather than the political landscape of Britain as a whole.
Question Time, hosted by David Dimbleby, is broadcast each week from a different part of the country and watched by an average of 2.6 million viewers.
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The BBC has again been accused of political bias by ensuring Question Time has audiences ‘hostile’ to government cuts.
This week’s show was broadcast from the Labour stronghold of Middlesbrough, where 43 per cent of the workforce is employed in the public sector.
Many viewers were shocked at how much hostility was heaped on Philip Hammond, the Transport Secretary, during the show.
Next week the debate will be held in the Tory-free zone of Glasgow, while the following week it is due in Sheffield, where fury has raged since the election that an £80million government loan for a local steel plant, Sheffield Forgemasters, was cancelled by the Coalition.
During Thursday’s debate, Mr Hammond was met with a wall of opposition every time he tried to explain why the Government had to rein in the country’s burgeoning deficit.
One observer told the Mail that he was shocked at the level of hostility towards the government.
‘They are taking some tough decisions on the deficit but the level of attack from the audience was off the scale.
Transport Secretary Philip Hammond was given a hard time on this week's Question Time in Middlesbrough
'At one point he urged people not to talk the North East down, and even that was met with a roar from the crowd.’
In contrast, Green MP, Caroline Lucas, received rapturous applause every time she suggested the Government should scrap its plans for cuts.
After the audience grilling, a BBC producer was overheard telling Sir Richard Dannatt, a panellist and the former head of the Army, that the show was held in Middlesbrough because the audience would be the most hostile to the cuts.
A Conservative source said: ‘Now, more than ever, is the time for the BBC to be careful and frame the debate responsibly so that the facts are properly heard. The spending review is a serious topic for all of us, it needs to be treated as such.’
The BBC has faced frequent claims of Left-wing bias. Unions recently called two strikes designed to black out coverage of the Tory conference and Mr Osborne’s spending review speech.
But they were called off following protests from a string of political journalists that the walk-outs would wreck the corporation’s claim to be ‘impartial’.
A BBC spokesman said: ‘The Question Time audience holds politicians from all sides to account.’
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Question Time “Paranoid” at Unpredictable Audience Tonight
The Question Time audience is often derided for being out of touch with mainstream public opinion and clapping contradictory arguments, but sometimes they cross the line. Back in 2001, just four days after the attacks on the Pentagon and the Twin Towers, the BBC was hit by one mighty PR disaster when their carefully selected, and oh so balanced, audience almost reduced a former US Ambassador to tears by repeatedly blaming America for the attacks, while the ruins were still smouldering. Director General Greg Dyke said at the time:
“…despite the best efforts of David Dimbleby and the panel, there were times in the programme when the tone was not appropriate, given the terrible events of this week. I have today spoken to Phillip Lader, the former US Ambassador to the UK who was on the panel, and apologised for any distress the programme may have caused him.”
Well we are ten years on and Guido hears that the BBC’s paranoia around tonight’s anniversary episode is intense. Producers are said to be particularly worried about the audience reaction to Reagan and Bush defence advisor, and the spiritual godfather of neo-conservatism, Richard Perle. Insiders say the audience has been “softened”. The programme’s production-company Mentorn declined to comment when Guido put it to them that there had been a significant re-jigging of audience members today…
http://order-order.com/2011/09/08/qu...ience-tonight/
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