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We are biased, admit the stars of BBC News
By SIMON WALTERS, Mail on Sunday
Last updated at 21:11pm on 21st October 2006
www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=411846&in_page_id=1770


It was the day that a host of BBC executives and star presenters admitted
what critics have been telling them for years: the BBC is dominated by
trendy, Left-leaning liberals who are biased against Christianity and in
favour of multiculturalism.

A leaked account of an 'impartiality summit' called by BBC chairman Michael
Grade, is certain to lead to a new row about the BBC and its reporting on
key issues, especially concerning Muslims and the war on terror.

It reveals that executives would let the Bible be thrown into a dustbin on a
TV comedy show, but not the Koran, and that they would broadcast an
interview with Osama Bin Laden if given the opportunity. Further, it
discloses that the BBC's 'diversity tsar', wants Muslim women newsreaders to
be allowed to wear veils when on air.

At the secret meeting in London last month, which was hosted by veteran
broadcaster Sue Lawley, BBC executives admitted the corporation is dominated
by homosexuals and people from ethnic minorities, deliberately promotes
multiculturalism, is anti-American, anti-countryside and more sensitive to
the feelings of Muslims than Christians.

One veteran BBC executive said: 'There was widespread acknowledgement that
we may have gone too far in the direction of political correctness.

'Unfortunately, much of it is so deeply embedded in the BBC's culture, that
it is very hard to change it.'

In one of a series of discussions, executives were asked to rule on how they
would react if the controversial comedian Sacha
Baron Cohen
) known for his offensive characters Ali G and Borat - was a
guest on the programme Room 101.

On the show, celebrities are invited to throw their pet hates into a dustbin
and it was imagined that Baron Cohen chose some kosher food, the Archbishop
of Canterbury, a Bible and the Koran.

Nearly everyone at the summit, including the show's actual producer and the
BBC's head of drama, Alan Yentob, agreed they could all be thrown into the
bin, except the Koran for fear of offending Muslims.

In a debate on whether the BBC should interview Osama Bin Laden if he
approached them, it was decided the Al Qaeda leader would be given a
platform to explain his views.

And the BBC's 'diversity tsar', Mary Fitzpatrick, said women newsreaders
should be able to wear whatever they wanted while on TV, including veils.

Ms Fitzpatrick spoke out after criticism was raised at the summit of TV
newsreader Fiona Bruce, who recently wore on air a necklace with a cross.

The full account of the meeting shows how senior BBC figures queued up to
lambast their employer.

Political pundit Andrew Marr said: 'The BBC is not impartial or neutral.
It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number
of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not
so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal
bias.'

Washington correspondent Justin Webb said that the BBC is so biased against
America that deputy director general Mark Byford had secretly agreed to help
him to 'correct', it in his reports. Webb added that the BBC treated America
with scorn and derision and gave it 'no moral weight'.

Former BBC business editor Jeff Randall said he complained to a 'very senior
news executive', about the BBC's pro-multicultural stance but was given the
reply: 'The BBC is not neutral in multiculturalism: it believes in it and it
promotes it.'
Randall also told how he once wore Union Jack cufflinks to work but was
rebuked with: 'You can't do that, that's like the National Front!'

Quoting a George Orwell observation, Randall said that the BBC was full of
intellectuals who 'would rather steal from a poor box than stand to
attention during God Save The King'.

There was another heated debate when the summit discussed whether the BBC
was too sensitive about criticising black families for failing to take
responsibility for their children.

Head of news Helen Boaden disclosed that a Radio 4 programme which blamed
black youths at a young offenders', institution for bullying white inmates
faced the axe until she stepped in.

But Ms Fitzpatrick, who has said that the BBC should not use white reporters
in non-white countries, argued it had a duty to 'contextualise' why black
youngsters behaved in such a way.

Andrew Marr told The Mail on Sunday last night: 'The BBC must always try to
reflect Britain, which is mostly a provincial, middle-of-the-road country.
Britain is not a mirror image of the BBC or the people who work for it.'
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