Cameron not happy with the BBC.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....ers-says-Cameron.html

Do we need any further proof that our state broadcaster leans to the 'Left'?

[SeaJayPea]

Good God, yes. We need much more than one Tory's assertions.

[Postdog]

and especially him

[Craftypig]

How Evan Davis could suggest that the riots were in response to the current economic situation facing the country staggers the imagination.

[sandyRoe]

Did he come clean about his exploits while a member of the Bullingdon club?
It's jolly japes for the toffs but if a poor kid did the same he'd be called a 'feral rat'.

[IggyB]

what more proof than the prime minister telling us its is? No that would probably be unpatriotic!

[anotheoldgit]

The BBC has been widely accused of it's Left-Wing bias, but now for someone holding the high position of Prime Minister to say it is, makes it now seem more official somehow.

[Gromit]

The Conservatives have always hated the BBC because it is a nationalised industry and goes against all their private commercial instincts. Thereis a long list of Conservatives who have bashed the beeb. Margaret Thatcher and Norman Tebbit were always doung it.

In this interview, Cameron saw attack as the best form of denfence. He was a member of a club notorious for acts of vandalism. It is well documented that he was a member, so all he could do was attack the BBC on a different front.

It is the job of journalists to hold the Prime Minister and ministers to account.

[Canary42]

Not proof at all - quite the opposite - all Politicians are liars.

[jno]

you can tell Davis is hitting home when Cameron starts calling him "Evan". I bet Davis wasn't discourteous enough to call him "David".

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// you can tell Davis is hitting home when Cameron starts calling him "Evan". I bet Davis wasn't discourteous enough to call him "David".///

What a weak argument surely calling him by his first name is not being discourteous, it is being courteous and showing a sign of friendship.

It is protocol however to address a person holding the office of Prime Minister such as David Cameron as Prime Minister, or simply Mr Cameron.

But it is generally termed hostile and definitely discourteous (jno please note) to just call him 'Cameron'.



"That’s what it can slip into, Evan, if you are not careful."

[Gromit]

Not sure I agree with you AOG. They are two professional people and this was a serious interview. By slipping into first name, could be seen as being patronising or exerting his seniority. It was rather unprofessional. Now if Cameron was on an entertainment show, then it would be fine to address his interviewer as Jonathan or Chris.

[anotheoldgit]

Gromit

/// Now if Cameron was on an entertainment show, then it would be fine to address his interviewer as Jonathan or Chris.///

He was being interviewed by Evan Davis

So how should he have addressed him then Gromit?

Lets imagine this scenario?

/// Are there similarities between being a member of a 'youthful gang that engages in violent behaviour' and looters, and being a member of the Bullington Club, Prime Minister? ///

"Well Mr Davis, I think that there is a great deal of difference".

Something doesn't sound right somehow.

Or in the way of the 'Left' (for example George Galloway's normal approach)

"Well DAVIS",......................................
...


or "Well Evan,........................................



Now that must sound so much better, and friendlier?

[Gromit]

// "Well Mr Davis, I think that there is a great deal of difference". //

That sounds fine and absolutely correct to me. Evan Davis was the BBC's Economics Editor, and the Today Programme is its flagship current Affairs show. Both interviewer and interviewee should be respectful of the other. Apart from anything else, using chummy names to address each other implies a closeness that should not exist between a journalist and a politician. It does not sound to the listener or viewer to be impartial, and it is important that impartiality is shown at all times.