I have a rather old fashioned view that the BBC should be unbiased. Quaint I know, but built into its charter, I note.
In Guernsey and Jersey they ignore that. Listen to this interview with a Guernsey Deputy who questions the VAT abuse in the island (start at 21 minutes in) and you'll here a typical interview by a BBC employee in the Channel Islands - they're always, without exception, on the side of the tax abuser, excusing that abuse is legiitmniate use of loopholes and so on. It's not questioning - they put it as fact.
And that's wrong.
I wonder if complaints to the BBC are justified in this case. This is systemic failure.
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The practice of “excusing abuse” is not confined to Guernsey.
The PSG has incontrovertible evidence that “excusing abuse” is a regular feature of government on the Isle of Sham.
Full details to all on request.
The BBC should be impartial — but it is not.
For example even those of the Richard Dawkins persuasion will recognize that it is Christianity that civilised us simply because our laws are based on Christian principles….
Principles which have endured for two-thousand years.
Meanwhile the BBC takes every opportunity to discredit faith (in the Christian God).
BBC bigotry is an everyday fact of life.
Since 2009 the BBC’s head of religion and ethics has been overseen by the Muslim Aaqil Ahmed, an appointment that prompted complaints from viewers who believe that the role should have been given to a Christian.
Contentious? Not particularly
More BBC bias? Probably!
Actually the BBC Guernsey interviewer was quite gentle, certainly in comparison with BBC Radio Jersey, as you well know. We are used to their hostility towards dissent. BBC Radio Jersey has recently closed a midday phone-in programme in order to stifle the voices of dissent in the run up to the October elections. There is a total dumbing down of politics and up playing of the banal. They are more likely to report a press realease about a new evangelical vicar than any activity by democracy campaigners in the island.