The BBC, Biased?

So the press is banging on about Bias at teh BBC again, as if it's run out of ironing to discuss.  

The BBC, and programmes such as Today always fall in line a bit with the current status quo. Remember the coverage of the miners strike. More recently I remember John Humphrys ostensibly giving John prescott a hard time, but it was clear he was always going to still swing by next week and lend him his stepladder in exchange for a bit of dog sitting at the weekend. You could tell that this would probably morph into a run down Dagenham Boot Sale for some hubcaps and a couple of pints on the way back.

When labour were in, about once a day, or at least it felt like it, we'd be treated to a documentary about how 'Liverpool is a city of suviiivahs', and gritty afternoon plays about 'suviiivahs in liverpool'. Radio 4 thought this would get them Down with the Working Classes.

When the Tories got in, I was driving up an empty and rainswept M1close to midnight a week after the elections, and the portent of things to come was a programme that must have cost in excess of seven pounds to produce. It was a bunch of posh people talking about how they Found it a Bit Dull Going to Boarding School. They did that thing that upper class people do, when they reach a critical mass, they stop making any sense in English and seem to make honking noises like Geese. 'ahhie went tew Reuudine, honk honk', 'really? one went to oundle, honk' 'honk honk honk?' ', rather!! also honk honk honk HONK HONK' . The next day I switched on the radio on the allotment, it was the weather report, followed by Posh People in a witty Play, relating to Things That Matter to Posh People. About three minutes in they couldn't bear it anymore and the compulsion to honk took them over. HONK HONK HONK.

It's been pretty much like that ever since.

Heres a very good song by Sparks.