Jeremy
Corbyn does face bias from the British media, one of the BBC’s most
senior presenters has claimed. David Dimbleby said the Labour leader
does not get a “fair deal” from newspapers as he repeated a view
put forward by many of Corbyn’s supporters.
As a
lifelong BBC journalist, preparing to host his tenth general
election, the political views of Dimbley are unknown but he
criticised the coverage of Corbyn who, he said, has a “lot of
support in the country”.
“It’s
a very odd election,” the 78-year-old told the Radio Times. “If
the Conservative story is how Theresa May is the ‘brand leader’,
the interesting thing is that a lot of Labour supporters really like
and believe in the messages Jeremy Corbyn is bringing across. It’s
not his MPs in the House of Commons necessarily but there is a lot of
support in the country”.
Corbyn was
widely seen to have performed well in the Sky News/Channel 4 election
special last night when he dealt calmly with questions on issues from
Trident and nationalisation of industry to his own past contact with
the IRA.
Today a
Survation poll showed Labour had closed the gap on the Tories to six
per cent although Corbyn subsequently failed to answer key questions
on his childcare pledge when he appeared on the BBC programme Woman’s
Hour.
“I
don’t think anyone could say Corbyn has had a fair deal at the
hands of the press, in a way that the Labour Party did when it was
more to the centre, but then we generally have a right-wing press,”
Dimbleby added.
Some
supporters of Corbyn have repeatedly accused the BBC of bias and
booed and hissed political editor Laura Kuenssberg at Labour events.
Tom Watson criticised the activists for such behaviour last year and
two weeks ago the party leader quietened them when they booed Andy
Bell, the political editor of Channel Five – although some members
thought Corbyn should have spoken out sooner.
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