Peter Sissons and the BBC

Today's DailyMail has an extract from Peter Sissons's book that is due to be published next month. In the Daily Mail piece Sissons writes  about the inbuilt left wing bias of the BBC. It is apparently impossible to get a promotion if you mention that Margaret Thatcher is one of your favourite politicians. What Peter Sissons says is hardly news but it is confirmation, if confirmation were required, that it is definitely not before time that the BBC were cut down to size and made to employ journalists of the right as well as of the left. Those of us who have never trusted the BBC for the palpable slant it puts on every story have seen this bias again this week over the Andy Coulson story which has been presented in a way that no story about anyone in or attached to the Labour party would ever be presented. The assumption you get from the BBC's version of the Coulson affair that he is lying and thus gulity. Did the BBC ever report the story of McBride's departure as Brown's press officer in the same way? McBride was found guilty of making stories up about the Tories which of course was a nasty little trick learnt from that excrescence Alistair Campbell who is still peddling rubbish on the BBC about the Tories. The only reason the BBC has anything to do with him must be because he is a man of the left. There is nothing else to recommend him. He's not even funny or interesting.