BBC should reflect more 'extreme' views

[muriel_volestrangler]

A review into impartiality in BBC news reporting has suggested the broadcaster should find ways to report more "extreme" opinions.

The report, commissioned by the BBC Trust, examined how the corporation reflects views from across the UK.

It found the BBC had been "slow" to catch up with public opinion on areas such as immigration and the EU.
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The report suggested that the audience of Question Time should be chosen from a wider group, rather than just BBC viewers.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23159035

Christ, why would they want more nutters? And people who don't watch the BBC are typically far-right "more like Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation" types.

[T_i_B]

1. The more extremist's you get on the news.....

......the more the news will end up more like the Jeremy Kyle show.

There's too many extremist views being aired on current affairs shows as it is. Moderate views many not be as entertaining, may not pander to certain prejudices but at the end of the day, we need the grey areas on many issues to be explained a lot more thoroughly and extremists on all sides tend not to be very good at that.

[LeftishBrit]

2. As if they didn't already

Remember Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time?

The obsession that some people have with immigration and the EU seems to be very tabloid-led. The BBC doesn't need to become another version of the nutty tabloids. Or for that matter of the Oxford Union, which, having invited Nick Griffin and David Irving a few years ago, now seems to be courting further outrage by inviting Lennon of the EDL. (Incidentally I wonder how many others of my generation initially reacted to the headline about the Oxford Union inviting Lennon with 'How can they invite John Lennon when he's dead?')

Of course, Fox News makes a habit of including insane 'contributors'. I do not want the Beeb to go down that route!

[Ken Burch]

4. Please tell me that the EDL Lennon isn't related to John.

I'm pretty sure that John Lennon would be leading mass rallies against the EDL AND the BNP if he were still around today.

[LeftishBrit]

5. No, he definitely isn't!

Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, definitely no relation to John Lennon. Also calls himself Tommy Robinson, and has a couple of other pseudonyms.

[Ken Burch]

3. Somehow, I doubt that this is a call to include more socialist or anarchist voices on "the Beeb".

Probably someone thinks that that nice Mr. Farrage isn't getting enough air time.