Quote Originally Posted by zedeeyen View Post
My wife called the embassy in London a couple of weeks ago to ask them how to cast an expat vote.

"Don't worry about it," they told her, "you already have."
For real?! That's apalling! If that was some kind of cynical joke it was rather unprofessional. Embassy staff are public officials after all. Did she ask them to clarify exactly what they were referring to?

Quote Originally Posted by zedeeyen View Post
I don't think it's as conscious as that. I think the bias is systemic; it reflects the prejudices of the people who work at the BBC - i.e. a middle-class, metropolitan, broadly-liberal set - and the more remote a subject the less likely it is to be treated with impartiality or objectivity ("remoteness" usually being a measure of distance outside the M25).

BBC News is a self-contained department at the BBC. Documentaries tend to be commissioned and produced by specific channels, so there's a bit more scope for plurality there. Not much, but a bit.
Haha, I will have to stop my horrible generalisations now that you have joined the forum! You are absolutely right.
They have prejudice or whatever, and probably just unconsciously gravitating towards stories that confirm their bias.

Reporting about Russia in various countries, during various different eras and in different types of media is a really interesting topic, worthy of its own thread, I think.