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Re: EU - How will you vote given the latest "news"
The BBC answer to...., sorry are supposed to answer to the licence payer and they are obligated to disclose any payments made to them other than from the licence payer, it is not for the licence payer to start digging through the EU Transparency Register to find these payments, as the BBC did formarly apologise and as an investigation was done into it, this in itself shows they didn't follow protocol.
To add to this the BBC's charity arm 'BBC media action' also received over 9million from the EU and this WAS for delivering key parts of the EU's political strategy in the countries that are on the fringe of the EU, IE ...Us, at the time this was brought up in parliment as it placed the BBC in a position that it couldn't be seen as impartial and especially as this was on the run up to the elections.
In answer the BBC said the charity side is totally independent and has no influence on the BBC itself.... its a strange statement to make when the board of trustee's is chaired by Fran Unsworth, who is the director of the World Service Division and also deputy Director of Current Affairs (relating to the period 2011 - 2014)... the whole conflict of interest was openly discussed in parliment and following the Elections there was many claiming the BBC were actually biased and were guilty of pushing EU propaganda.
Even today I see the reports been biased to the EU with more featured commentary from members supporting the in campaign compared to coverage of those supporting the out, it was only the other day they show 3 people discussing staying in and why its good for over 5 mins then at the end they took a sound bite about a reason to leave with less than 20seconds.. Yes they show both sides but disproportionately and they are selective to who they choose to show.
The BBC answer to...., sorry are supposed to answer to the licence payer and they are obligated to disclose any payments made to them other than from the licence payer, it is not for the licence payer to start digging through the EU Transparency Register to find these payments, as the BBC did formarly apologise and as an investigation was done into it, this in itself shows they didn't follow protocol.
To add to this the BBC's charity arm 'BBC media action' also received over 9million from the EU and this WAS for delivering key parts of the EU's political strategy in the countries that are on the fringe of the EU, IE ...Us, at the time this was brought up in parliment as it placed the BBC in a position that it couldn't be seen as impartial and especially as this was on the run up to the elections.
In answer the BBC said the charity side is totally independent and has no influence on the BBC itself.... its a strange statement to make when the board of trustee's is chaired by Fran Unsworth, who is the director of the World Service Division and also deputy Director of Current Affairs (relating to the period 2011 - 2014)... the whole conflict of interest was openly discussed in parliment and following the Elections there was many claiming the BBC were actually biased and were guilty of pushing EU propaganda.
Even today I see the reports been biased to the EU with more featured commentary from members supporting the in campaign compared to coverage of those supporting the out, it was only the other day they show 3 people discussing staying in and why its good for over 5 mins then at the end they took a sound bite about a reason to leave with less than 20seconds.. Yes they show both sides but disproportionately and they are selective to who they choose to show.
