The Daily Mail is worried, the sky is blue, and other obvious statements
The Daily Mail has noticed a little impartiality issue coming up for the BBC.
In an upcoming documentary, presented by political baldicoot Nick Robinson, the BBC will show the worst case scenarios caused by the government cuts in public spending.
Filming has already got underway. To show what we can expect our country to soon look like, a street in Preston was mocked up as ‘dire vision of municipal Armageddon’. The odd uncollected wheely bin is probably not technically an Armageddon, but you can see what they are trying here.
For those with an eye on impartiality, it will be interesting to see how the programme manages not to fall too heavily on one side of the argument. By hiring in 20 dogs to mark their territories on a Lancashire cul-de-sac, the obvious angle seems to be critical of Coalition policy. But they could quite easily present this downpour of dog dumps as only an unrealistic fear.
So whatever your political preference may be (please don’t tell me, you’ll only embarrass yourself), this documentary could well kick up a bit of stink.
Straight Down The Middle 
The Daily Mail is worried??
Duh! Do dogs s*** in cul-de-sacs!!?
It is a badly kept secret that Nick Robinson is Tory (or leaning that way). Perhaps he wouldn’t put his face to a blatantly anti-government programme. Perhaps the BBC is (surprise, surprise) playing on the fears of the public, and trying to cash in on their number one concern: the cuts.
It will no doubt be informative, but if it sets out to showcase the worst-case scenarios, then maybe it is already proving itself to be less than impartial. I can’t help but feel that it’s going the same way as The Execution of Gary Glitter.
I always feel a bit wary of saying someone in the media, especially in the BBC is obviously for one party or another. I reckon they will believe that they are ignoring any of their personal preferences and are doing the job to the best of their abilities.
It is seems a reasonable idea for a programme anyway.
I might watch.
I think you’re right Adrian, sounds as though the BBC are just ‘cashing’ in on the number one story which will dominate this year (well, perhaps now lower than the Middle East as far as ‘popular’ stories go).
In my opinion I’m pleased they are showing this programme, I think it is a little bit ridiculous trying to be impartial on absolutely everything – after all I’m sure they will only be showing the facts – the new rubbish collection system is a joke!! (but thats for another discussion)
The Beeb have been heavily criticised in the past – they were accused of breaking their own guidelines by screening an episode of The Vicar of Dibley which promoted the Make Poverty History campaign. Surely people have better things to do than to complain about that!!
I know politics is a little more serious than the Vicar of Dibley – the principle is the same.
When is it on?