Bennett-Jones' revealing naivety

Richard Curtis and his silly producer, have done well out of the BBC over the years and that relationship was clearly exploited to the full with Make Poverty History. The notion that MPH was not a political campaign is arrant nonsense and a disgraceful attempt to excuse what was obvious to most and the Trust in particular. MPH emerged to orbit the G8 summit along with Curtis' feeble drama and the Geldof ego fest, and to exert its childish influence over politicans. This was all well and good, but there was little critique of MPH, with its unedifying parade of naive multi-millionaires preaching to the hoi polloi about poverty, whilst it criminally refused to confront the real reasons behind poverty. That isolated episode was a disgrace, but there are other more subtle examples of bias. I listen to the BBC almost every day and I welcome the Trust's report. There's no question news editors in particular fail to provide balance, even in phone-ins on Five Live, where the vaccuous Victoria Derbyshire redefined toe curling political correctness. It would be wrong to say it was endemic, but the pockets of bias increasingly ruining the cut of an otherwise good suit.