The BBC was accused yesterday of keeping the growing paedophilia scandal from the airwaves in order to protect the Labour Party.
Until yesterday afternoon, the corporation had refused to report that three Labour figures had leading positions in a human rights group that backed the notorious Paedophile Information Exchange.
The story has been on the Mail’s front page three times but the BBC cut all reference to it from its press reviews yesterday.
The BBC was accused yesterday of keeping the growing paedophilia scandal from the airwaves in order to protect the Labour Party
Philip Davies, a Tory MP on the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said the reason for the BBC’s continued silence was institutional left-wing bias.
‘It is a scandal that the Daily Mail is one of the most read papers in the country but is ignored by the national broadcaster,’ he said.
‘The BBC is interested only in stories that favour the Labour party or that appear in the Guardian. If this were about Conservative MPs the Labour party would be up in arms and the story would have been leading Newsnight five days running.’
A BBC spokesman said: ‘BBC News is an impartial, independent news organisation and decides its editorial priorities based on merit alone and without external help.’
Philip Davies, a Tory MP on the Commons culture, media and sport committee, said the reason for the BBC¿s continued silence was institutional left-wing bias
Yesterday Sky News journalist Jon Craig confronted Labour leader Ed Miliband about the affair and reported on the story during the channel’s evening bulletin.
Adding to the mounting confusion, its own journalists have provided contradictory excuses for why the story has been ignored.
While some claimed they were given ‘legal advice’ to drop it, an official spokesman insisted news bosses simply decided the story was ‘not new’.
Since it published the results of its PIE investigation last Wednesday, the Daily Mail has run a series of articles – including two further front page splashes – calling for the Labour trio to answer key questions about their time at the National Council For Civil Liberties (NCCL) in the 1970s.
But yesterday’s front page story was still ignored by the BBC in its daily newspaper round ups on TV and radio.
Late on Sunday night, the BBC News Channel was the first to preview the next day’s front pages.
It found time to discuss the front pages of the The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Times, The Independent, The Daily Express and The Sun, but made no mention of the Mail’s main story.
On Radio 4, the Today programme yesterday summarised a string of articles – from the situation in Ukraine to the news Piers Morgan has quit his CNN talk show – in its two newspaper reviews at 6.38am and 7.35am. Once again, there was no mention of the PIE.
Radio Five Live also omitted the Daily Mail story from its 5.15am newspaper summary, and an online article about the day’s front pages made no mention of the PIE story.
The striking gap in the BBC’s coverage was not missed by its viewers and listeners, many of whom took to Twitter to voice their frustration that the story had not been given airtime.
But the corporation gave conflicting justifications for the continued omission.
Last Wednesday, Five Live broadcaster Nicky Campbell blamed ‘legal advice’ for his failure to mention the Mail’s original splash in his newspaper review, saying there was a ‘lack of sources’ and adding it ‘would have been one to go big on if we could stand up.’
But when MailOnline published copies of all the key documents in the investigation later the same day, the BBC quickly changed its stance.
Yesterday Sky News journalist Jon Craig confronted Labour leader Ed Miliband about the affair and reported on the story during the channel’s evening bulletin
An official spokesman claimed the affair was in fact being ignored for editorial reasons, adding: ‘The story in question is not new, and instead, we have followed several big, breaking news story.’
The BBC’s first mention of the story was in an online article yesterday afternoon that repeated Miss Harman’s allegation she was the victim of a ‘politically motivated smear campaign.’
Its reticence was in marked contrast to its commercial rival Sky News.
The channel aired a lengthy discussion about yesterday’s Daily Mail front page on its Sunday night press preview programme.
Presenter Eamonn Holmes again mentioned the story in his round-up of the day’s papers in his early morning show Sunrise.
And yesterday afternoon Sky journalist Jon Craig confronted Labour leader Ed Miliband about the affair and reported on the affair during the evening news bulletin.
Until the UK awakes and realizes how much they have been used by these criminal “royals and elite” it will continue. When you have vermin like this the best way is to exterminate.