They do come from backgrounds which promote 'broadly liberal views' because we are a 'broadly liberal' country.
I would imagine that the background of a lot of the top echelon at the BBC is the same as it is for banking, politics, industry, the civil service etc. i.e. Public school, often...
All that Thompson says in that interview is that there was a left leaning bias in the seventies pre Thatcherism. He goes on to say that the current BBC is a broader church. This merely suggests that the BBC takes a mainstream view. The establishment view in the seventies was more left leaning...
I must apologise. I took your original post at face value. I now realise that you are trolling in the character of a swivel eyed conspiracy theorist. OR...
Is that what they want me to think????
Is this the BBC who have had Farage on Question Time more than anyone except David Dimbleby in the last five years?
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/06/why-nigel-farage-question-time-so-often
Or the media establishment of newspapers like The Star, Mail, Express & Telegraph who are...