Since I wrote my last blog about the BBC bias evident in Sir Terry Pratchett’s programme about assisted suicide on BBC Two on Monday night, I have received Phyllis Bowman’s Right to Life newsletter in the post this morning. Bearing in mind that it was written before the BBC Two programme on Monday, this is what she writes, under the subheading "The Biggest UK Pro-Euthanasia Lobby – The BBC":
The BBC campaign has become more and more outrageous. When the news broke (Sunday 15. 5. 11) regarding the Swiss suicide referendum, the coverage – as always – supported assisted suicide. The story first broke on the 6pm news. There were three interviews, all backing death. Four radio clips backed death with only one against. Four local radio items all favoured death; two listeners’ comments backed death, with one Swiss comment favouring life. The campaigners who were heard were Margo MacDonald MSP (pro assisted suicide), Dr Peter Saunders (pro-life), three from Dignity in Dying, one from EXIT, one from the Society for Old Age Rational Suicide. All three organisations are quite blatantly pro-assisted suicide and voluntary euthanasia. All this came hard on the heels of BBC’s announcement that they were making a film about Terry Pratchett...
