This week, the British Broadcasting Commission (BBC) released the results of an independent review into its coverage of economic matters – Review of the impartiality of BBC coverage of taxation, public spending, government borrowing and debt – which was completed in November 2022. The problem is that the Investigation conducted by this Review, while interesting and providing some good analysis, misses the overall source of the bias that our public broadcasters have fallen into. The problem is not that they might be favouring political positions of one party or another. Rather, the implicit framing and language they use to discuss economic matters is largely flawed itself. And the journalists who uncritically use these concepts and terms just perpetuate the fiction and mislead their audiences....Bill Mitchell – billy blog
Investigation into BBC bias misses the point really
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia
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“ the implicit framing and language they use to discuss economic matters is largely flawed itself.”
They can just say the language and framing you use is flawed.., which they do and are doing successfully…
“Can you just raise the limit on your credit card when you hit your debt ceiling?”
Language and framing are aspects of the dialogic method they can’t be “flawed” they can only be employed in the discussion and perhaps be refuted with opposing language and framing of an antithesis…
If you are losing the debate you can’t just say the other side is “flawed!” and think that’s going to work…
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