‘Insufficiently accurate’: some thoughts on the BBC and the health of our democracy
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Richard Kuper
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“Even allowing for the element of compression often seen in tweets, the paraphrase of Ms Walker gave an insufficiently accurate impression of her actual words, so I am upholding that aspect of your complaint.”
Thus the BBC’s Executive Complaints Unit (ECU) of a tweet by Nick Robinson. But has there been a correction or an apology? There has not!
This article was originally published by Medium on Sat 6 Jul 2019. Read the original here.
‘Insufficiently accurate’: some thoughts on the BBC and the health of our democracy
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It’s about time Robinson was brought to book.
There are to many lies and false accusations being bandied about, well over due a blast of truth.
It’s time someone DID ask them!!!
We KNOW that this false antisemitism slur comes from the Israeli Embassy (search for “The Lobby” on You tube!!!).
It’s time for Labour to stop apologising for what is a tissue of lies without a scintilla of truth to them!!
Zionists are doing no favours to those British Jews who are loyal Labour supporters.
They aren’t doing any favours to the non Jewish Labour supporters either!!
So many British working class people, Jewish, non Jewish, black and white are suffering under this neo-liberal government –
Struggling on low wages
Forced to go to food banks
Sleeping on the streets!!
Then there are the elderly, whose pensions are not keeping up with the cost of living. (the threat of having to pay for our TV licences doesn’t help!). The WASPI women with no pensions at all!
Then there the homeless who have nowhere to sleep but the streets!
Time to grasp the nettle and go on the offensive against this vile Tory government and against the right wing in our own party (who are the main source of the disgusting Antisemitic slurs).
Labour was founded to be the party of the working class! It’s time stand up and fight for them!
They need us!!
BBC – Bloody Biased Corporation. JVL has become one of the last bastions of the truth and defenders of justice in Britain. Democracy is dying and the media have been fiddling everything with their corrupt mp friends and billionaire/ corporate/ foreign lobbies to prevent Jeremy Corbyn becoming the rightful Prime Minister of our poverty stricken and divided country.
Sick of the lies, smears and slurs being spread by the mainstream media who are violating broadcasting rules on a daily basis. Reporting smears and lies as fact is a form of brainwashing, deliberately trying to influence the electorate with a negative picture of the Labour Party and completely shocking unthethical. The establishment and the super wealthy elites disgusting campaign against Jeremy Corbyn is replusive. His brilliant ‘For the Many not the Few’ promise sends a shiver down their spineless spines. Also JVL please stop the JVLwatch trolls using your logo to mislead people and direct them onto their vile site. I have clicked by accident on their shameful site a few times and many must be doing so to. They must have paid a lot of money to make searches list them first. Make them stop please, they are morally bankrupt and so dangerous. Thank you.
The way the BBC has behaved since Corbyn was elected Leader of the Labour Party has been disgraceful.
They have become cavalier in their attitude to complaints, they feel untouchable. It is time that the BBC had a complete overhaul at the Top.
It amazes me how a President of the Oxford University Conservative Association and Chairman of the National Young Conservatives (two amongst many other prominent Conservative Party roles Nick Robinson has held) can become the Political Editor of the BBC. So I suppose it’s little surprise he won’t apologise or withdraw his tweet.
Little by little, bit by bit, the smearers are being exposed.
Is it in time to stop a rightwards slide into fascism?
Or is it too late for the many people of this country to understand that their true interests lie in supporting a Corbyn-led Labour Government?
I am not optimistic.
The real danger in all of this is that Jews in Britain could be tarred with the zionist brush and left-activists could end up blaming all Jews for it.
The zionists will not care. It is a bonus for them if the political and social climate in Britain changes, and many Jews decide to undertake aliyah.
We non Jews must raise our voices higher and call out the mainstream media constantly for misrepresenting undisputable facts and telling downright lies about the true socialist Labour Party. I’m fed up with shouting at the TV!
The inaccuracy of the original tweet was blatant – and the BBC is culpable in allowing it to pass with so little sanction.
Anyone who has done very basic research knows that Jackie Walker was making a very simple and uncontroversial point : that victims can also be perpetrators.
It is, of course, a distortion that alters the truth – but is but one example amongst a myriad of journalistic failures. Frankly, (to paraphrase Aneurin Bevan on Eden) – any BBC journalist who wittingly makes such a mistake is too venal to be in Robinson’s position; any BBC journalist who thinks he/she’s reporting this as a fact is too stupid to work for the Corporation.
The wider picture, however, is the total failure of the NEC to engage in rebuttal instead of apology.
A masterclass in understatement to select one lie out of a hundred thousand if you don’t mind my saying so.
Repeated complaints can be expected to have similarly ineffectual results.
What might give the BBC and the rest of the MSM editors and journalists some pause is a statement of intent to examine the political bias inherent in their output and hold individuals to account for subversion of society’s most important institution – our democracy – the moment Labour is next in government.
Such gross insults to the fabric of society must be deterred – administrative and editorial supervision, financial penalties and imprisonment must be available to the courts when the MSM flouts its duty to regulate itself.