One of the main complaints made against the BBC is its liberal left-leaning metropolitan prejudice, a charge that often the BBC admits.
One of the problems is that it means individual journalists are able to treat some subjects blissfully ignorant of the need for balance, they can just get away with it so long as it fits left-leaning prejudices.
On the issue of domestic violence, there has been some successes including a phone-in on BBC Radio 5 in February 2008 (link) and an interview with a male victim on radio 4 in August 2008.
However, they still fall into the politically correct left-leaning trap of only portraying victims as female and perpetrators as men.
Last week, for example, they made much comment with interviews on the new figures on prosecutions issued by the CPS (link). However, none of the broadcasts had a spokesman commenting on male victims and this on-line coverage (link) from Andy McFarlane shows that men are ignored. They even trot out the usual picture of a man hitting a woman and ignore the fact that two in five victims are men.
The BBC needs to get its act together and treat all victims equally and stop this gender bias. What do we pay our licence fee for!
Just to say all the last few articles on DV are great.
Two points about the bbc. Firstly, there's nothing "liberal" about persecuting men. If you look at political parties it is almost always the socialist/communist types who seem to hate men or at least attract men haters to their ranks. For example, the lib dems are significant less sexist against men than Labour.
Point 2. By far the worst thing about the bbc is their domestic violence website. It is openly seixst against men - men get one page and the whole of te rest of the site is dedicated to female victims and the site acknowledges this in no uncertain terms!
It could easily be written by Women's Aid or any other gender racist - in fact it probably was.
Posted by: John Kimble | Thursday, 13 November 2008 at 18:46