Facebook reveals the BBC as a liberal hotbed

Daily Mail by Jane Merrick, Kirsty Walker | Oct. 27, 2007 (News Report)

The BBC has frequently been accused of having a liberal bias.

But now the corporation's own staff appear to have confirmed this by revealing their political views on the networking website Facebook.

A survey of BBC employees with profiles on the site showed that 11 times more of them class themselves as "liberal" than "conservative". Full Story »

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