The Media Bias Fight in Britain

Whenever conservative media watchdogs aspire to an argument seeking to expose and correct the distortions of the liberal news outlets, they receive the argument of hypocrisy. “You can’t complain about bias,” they say, “because you’re awfully biased yourself.”

This would be a more impressive argument if one was a mirror image of the media, insisting that the one True Way of Journalism was to sound exactly like a conservative and only issue “news” that favors your side because your side is the staunch defense of “democracy” and “truth.”

Insisting that the media ought to reflect both sides — which actually sounds more like democracy — is despised as a conservative plot.

Take a recent article in The Guardian, a socialist news effort in Britain. Former BBC anchor (“presenter”) Emily Maitlis complained in a lecture at a television festival in Edinburgh that BBC board member Robbie Gibb was an “agent of the Conservative Party” who was acting “as the arbiter of BBC impartiality.”

The BBC doesn’t want anyone fussing about impartiality. They need no outside arbiters. They cook it with a socialist flavor, and the masses should just accept their sermons and not complain about the service of the taxpayer-funded broadcaster.

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