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kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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So last night we had Tory minister Nick Boles, UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn, and two members of the Murdoch press - Camilla Long from the Sunday Times and that vile piece of Sun scum Kelvin MacKenzie. Oh, and one Labour MP.

How can that possibly be percieved as 'balanced'?!
 


Igzilla

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Sep 27, 2012
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So last night we had Tory minister Nick Boles, UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn, and two members of the Murdoch press - Camilla Long from the Sunday Times and that vile piece of Sun scum Kelvin MacKenzie. Oh, and one Labour MP.

How can that possibly be percieved as 'balanced'?!

Because the BBC is a hot bed of lefties (based on the argument with my sister in law over Christmas dinner).

Oh...
 


Hastings gull

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Nov 23, 2013
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So last night we had Tory minister Nick Boles, UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn, and two members of the Murdoch press - Camilla Long from the Sunday Times and that vile piece of Sun scum Kelvin MacKenzie. Oh, and one Labour MP.

How can that possibly be percieved as 'balanced'?!

It probably was not balanced, as you suggest, but your choice of description leads me to believe that, had it been the other way, you would not be posting such a view.
 


topbanana36

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Dec 29, 2007
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New Zealand
So last night we had Tory minister Nick Boles, UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn, and two members of the Murdoch press - Camilla Long from the Sunday Times and that vile piece of Sun scum Kelvin MacKenzie. Oh, and one Labour MP.

How can that possibly be percieved as 'balanced'?!

However,the audience wasn't exactly filled with balance. Could not have be more left if they had tried anymore left leaning and the audience would have been on the floor.
 


Lincoln Imp

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Feb 2, 2009
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So last night we had Tory minister Nick Boles, UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn, and two members of the Murdoch press - Camilla Long from the Sunday Times and that vile piece of Sun scum Kelvin MacKenzie. Oh, and one Labour MP.

How can that possibly be percieved as 'balanced'?!

What was the audience like?
 




Soulman

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Oct 22, 2012
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It probably was not balanced, as you suggest, but your choice of description leads me to believe that, had it been the other way, you would not be posting such a view.

Made a refreshing change, even though on one of the most important questions, which is why UIKIP MEP Patrick O'Flynn was on there, had Dumbledork butting in whilst he tried to answer.
I daresay normal service will be resumed soon as far as the panel members that are picked.
 


kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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However,the audience wasn't exactly filled with balance.

As the BBC always state, the audience is selected at random. The panel, however, is selected by the producers - who obviously thought having four right-wingers and one Labour MP constituted a balanced panel. Looking forward to next week when they have journos from the Guardian and the Mirror, a Corbyn-ite Labour MP and a member of the Greens, with one sole Tory. I'll believe it when I see it.......
 
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Soulman

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As the BBC always state, the audience is selected at random. The panel, however, is selected by the producers - who obviously thought having four right-wingers and one Labour MP constituted a balanced panel. Looking forward to next week when they have journos from the Guardian and the Mirror, a Corbyn-ite Labour MP and a member of the Greens, with one sole Tory. I'll believe it when I see it.......

Well obviously the Mirror were straight onto it.
Interesting quote though in between the bleating, usual left wing audience, nothing changes there. "Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley added: "Right-wing panel, Left-wing audience. Result. No one to cheer, no one's quite sure who to boo."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bbc-question-times-right-wing-7183651#ICID=sharebar_facebook
 




Not Andy Naylor

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Dec 12, 2007
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People such as McKenzie are obvious exceptions, but I don't think you can assume that people who work for certain papers share their political views. Star columnists go for the money and most go where the increasingly dwindling amount of work is.
 


kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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I don't think you can assume that people who work for certain papers share their political views. They go where the dwindling amount of work is.

No, but I think you can assume Kelvin Mackenzie might be a tad right of centre.
 


kevo

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Mar 8, 2008
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Well obviously the Mirror were straight onto it.
Interesting quote though in between the bleating, usual left wing audience, nothing changes there. "Telegraph columnist Tim Stanley added: "Right-wing panel, Left-wing audience. Result. No one to cheer, no one's quite sure who to boo."
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/bbc-question-times-right-wing-7183651#ICID=sharebar_facebook

Perhaps you think the audience are 'left wing' because they disagree with your (and of course Telegraph writers) opinions.
 




Not Andy Naylor

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Dec 12, 2007
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No, but I think you can assume Kelvin Mackenzie might be a tad right of centre.

Absolutely. But I have a friend who refused to move from the Guardian to The Times because he said he'd never work for a Murdoch paper, then took an enormously lucrative offer from the Mail. I doubt if he's ever voted anything but Labour in his life, though.
 


JC Footy Genius

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Absolutely. But I have a friend who refused to move from the Guardian to The Times because he said he'd never work for a Murdoch paper, then took an enormously lucrative offer from the Mail. I doubt if he's ever voted anything but Labour in his life, though.

Being a hypocritical left wing champagne socialist is quite a common affliction apparently.
 


Soulman

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Oct 22, 2012
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Perhaps you think the audience are 'left wing' because they disagree with your (and of course Telegraph writers) opinions.

Not really, if there was a clapometer like on the Hughie Green show i think it would be quite obvious who the large majority of the audience are made up of.
 






Soulman

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Perhaps you think the audience are 'left wing' because they disagree with your (and of course Telegraph writers) opinions.

Again not really. The audience seemed to be made up of a lot of Junior doctors, hardly going to side on the right in the present circumstances are they.
 









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