BBC, IT & Sky To Air Debates Between Leaders of 3 Main Parties (UK)

[SciFiBoy]

SamuelRSmith said:

SciFiBoy said:

SamuelRSmith said:

1 - It's just the way things have been trending since Thatcher. You're studying politics, now, right? You'll probably cover it when discussing the concept of "presidential-prime minister"

2 - What what?

3 - Where did I say anything about that? But I don't see how a live feed of pre-approved questions could suffer from much bias, especially as their being conducted by three broadcasters that are different on bias.

1&2 - I meant why should the system change and how should it change

3 - er, from what ive seen of ITV, SKY and BBC's news coverage, they all talk about the Conservatives being the winners already, they also all criticise Brown heavily and dismiss Clegg as a non-entity, to me, they all seem to have the same views on the leaders, I also find it hard to believe the media would change there views even if Cameron was humiliated

The system should change because the way the people vote has changed: we need a directly elected PM/President.

Say what you want about BSkyB, but ITN and BBC tend to look at things objectively, and what they see are opinion polls screaming about a massive Conservative victory, and so they report it as such. Even most of the Labour party think that it's over, and Mandy/Darling have made statements which essentially show them as giving up - are you going to accuse these people of a Conservative bias, also?

when the BBC and ITV start scrutinising and giving flack where its due to Cameron and The Conservatives, then ill stop accusing them of bias, all I see at the moment, is "lets attack Labour and mock the Lib Dems" no wonder Cameron is so quiet, the media is doing his job for him

do you work for the BBC or something? I pay my liscence fee and I like the network in general, but surely even you can see that some of there so called objective reporting gives the Conservative's an easy ride?

okay, that sounds interesting, do you mean like giving the PM the powers the queen has now then and making him an electable head of state seperate to the party's we elect to the commons?