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Line 117: − − ===Liberal bias=== − Details of the BBC's liberal bias were further tabled in an official report<ref>'''Revoir, Paul''', ''[http://web-capture.net/picture.php?pic_index=1&presentation_method=inline BBC accused of institutional Left-wing bias]'' Daily Mail June 18, 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/06/17/nbbc217.xml BBC report finds bias within corporation], Gary Cleland,''Telegraph'', June 18, 2007.</ref><ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/13530 BBC Report: Network's Bias Due to 'The Inherent Liberal Culture of its Staff'], Noel Sheppard, [[NewsBusters]], June 17, 2007</ref> – in preparation since 2005 – which found that the BBC: − *Has an "institutional Left-wing bias" − *Has "a tendency to 'group think' with too many staff inhabiting a shared space and comfort zone." − *Promotes anti-Christian sentiment − *Allows schedules to be "hijacked by special interest groups promoting trendy issues" − *Over-represents homosexuals − *Over-represents ethnic minorities − *Fails to reflect the views of the [[British]] public on issues such as [[capital punishment]] − *Fails to reflect the broader views of British people − *Fails to reflect concerns about pornography and family-unfriendly broadcasting (1960s Director General Hugh Carleton-Greene notoriously refused ever to meet broadcasting standards campaigner [[Mary Whitehouse]] and would commonly refer to her in opprobrious terms) − *Allows itself to be used by "sinister" campaign groups − *Finds it difficult to understand there may be alternative views of the world − − [[Antony Jay]], a former producer on ''Tonight'', a nightly BBC current affairs television program, said the BBC News and Current Affairs are part of the "liberal media consensus". Jay also said his ex-colleagues "were anti-industry, anti-capitalism, anti-advertising, anti-selling, anti-profit, anti-patriotism, anti-monarchy, anti-Empire, anti-police, anti-armed forces, anti-bomb, anti-authority. Almost anything that made the world a freer, safer and more prosperous place, you name it, we were anti it."<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/node/14114 Former BBC Producer Explains Why Media Are Liberally Biased], Noel Sheppard, [[NewsBusters]], July 15, 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/14/nbeeb314.xml&page=1 Here is the news (as we want to report it)], [[Telegraph]], July 15, 2007</ref> Paul Dacre, the editor of the British newspaper, the [[Daily Mail]], in his January 2007 Hugh Cudlipp Memorial Lecture, said that "the BBC is, in every corpuscle of its corporate body, against the values of conservatism, with a small 'c', which just happen to be the values held by millions of Britons." He also accused the BBC of being hostile to the "traditional Right, Britain's past and British values, America, Ulster Unionism, Euro-scepticism, capitalism and big business, the countryside, Christianity and family values." − − A survey of BBC employees with profiles on the [[Facebook]] site showed that 11 times more of them class themselves as "[[liberal]]" than "[[conservative]]".<ref>[http://newsbusters.org/blogs/matthew-sheffield/2007/10/27/facebook-provides-fascinating-glimpse-society-media-demographics Facebook Provides Fascinating Glimpse Into Society, Media Demographics], Matthew Sheffield, [[NewsBusters]], October 27, 2007</ref><ref>[https://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=490047&in_page_id=1770&ito=1490 Facebook reveals the BBC as a liberal hotbed], Jane Merrick and Kirsty Walker, [[Daily Mail]], October 27, 2007</ref> Its program ''Question Time'' has been accused of a liberal bias by hand picking its audience. However, David Dimbleby (the host of ''Question Time'') was a member of the [[Bullingdon Club]],<ref>Hannah Furness. [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/10083081/I-was-proud-to-wear-uniform-of-Bullingdon-Club-admits-David-Dimbleby.html "I was proud to wear uniform of Bullingdon Club, admits David Dimbleby"], ''[[The Daily Telegraph]]''. (May 27, 2013).</ref> alongside many senior members of the [[Conservative Party]], ''e.g.'' [[Boris Johnson]],<ref>Elizabeth Day. [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/oct/16/boris-johnson-interview-bullingdon-cannabis "Boris Johnson: 'Do you want me to be photographed in my Bullingdon Club uniform? With a spliff? Now you're talking'"] ''[[The Observer]]''. (October 19, 2014).</ref> [[George Osborne]]<ref>Elizabeth Day. [https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2011/oct/01/george-osborne-bullingdon-club-chancellor "George Osborne and the Bullingdon club: what the chancellor saw"] ''[[The Observer]]''. (October 1, 2011).</ref> (Chancellor of the Exchequer) and [[David Cameron]] himself.<ref>Nick Mutch, Jack Myers, Adam Lusher, Jonathan Owen. [http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/generalelection/general-election-2015-photographic-history-of-bullingdon-club-tracked-down-including-new-picture-of-10224679.html "General Election 2015: Photographic history of Bullingdon Club tracked down - including new picture of David Cameron in his finery"] ''[[The Independent]]''. (May 5, 2015)</ref> − − In 2017, BBC interviewed a left-wing [[University of California, Berkeley|Berkeley]] professor who made false claims regarding [[Breitbart.com|Breitbart News]]. Although the professor's claims were extreme, the BBC interviewer did not question any of his statements.<ref>Delingpole, James (May 5, 2017). [https://www.breitbart.com/london/2017/05/05/delingpole-breitbart-is-very-extreme-right-berkeley-prof-tells-bbc/ DELINGPOLE: Breitbart Is ‘Very Extreme Right,’ Berkeley Prof Tells BBC]. ''Breitbart News''. Retrieved May 6, 2017.</ref>
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===Racism===
===Racism===
In its [[propaganda]] effort to promote war between the [[NATO]] and the [[Russian Federation]] during the [[2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict]], the BBC broadcast [[Ukraine]]’s deputy chief prosecutor David Sakvarelidze explaining why he was being very emotional as he was seeing “[[European]] people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed everyday with [[Putin]]'s missiles."<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-news-latest-racism-row-white-skin-blue-eyes-killed-1918857-2022-02-28</ref>
In its [[propaganda]] effort to promote war between the [[NATO]] and the [[Russian Federation]] during the [[2022 Russia-Ukraine conflict]], the BBC broadcast [[Ukraine]]’s deputy chief prosecutor David Sakvarelidze explaining why he was being very emotional as he was seeing “[[European]] people with blue eyes and blonde hair being killed everyday with [[Putin]]'s missiles."<ref>https://www.indiatoday.in/world/russia-ukraine-war/story/russia-ukraine-war-news-latest-racism-row-white-skin-blue-eyes-killed-1918857-2022-02-28</ref>
===Regional bias===
===Regional bias===