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The BBC is often accused of bias towards the Left. James Naughtie gave the game away last Wednesday (2 March) when he was interviewing Labour candidate Ed Balls. He said: "If we win the election...", and then hastily corrected himself to "If you win the election." The Observer blog has produced a short MP3 recording of Naughtie's Freudian slip.
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Thanks for this. I'd read on Melanie Phillips' blogspot that someone on the TODAY programme had said this and it comes as no suprise to find out who (I'm living in Spain). Being more egregiously biased than John Humphrys is a hard act to pull, but Naughtie manages it.
Once when listening to Last Night of the Proms I heard a strangely familiar voice commentating, but couldn't quite place it. It turned out to be what James Naughtie sounds like when being a human being and not performing his Orwellian thought-policing role with Humphrys on the TODAY programme. These guys, and Paxman and Jon Snow et al, in a different epoch, in a different place, would be conducting show trials under Stalin. If the Tories dont attack their flagrant attack on democracy - which is exactly what it is - with the same urgency and determination with which they tackled the Unions under Maggie, we'll probably end up seeing just how Caligulan these guys can be.
Posted by Graeme Thompson | May 7, 2005 11:49 PM
Posted on May 7, 2005 23:49