This how the Daily Mail reported Peter Horrocks‘ speech. A tad harsh…but they do inhabit a ‘distorted information environment’.

Here’s what former BBC producer Phil Woolas MP, Labour minister for community cohesion (a sort of ministerial Pritt®) reckons the corporation is for:

Their job is to give a microphone to credible organisations and people, and to test those views against reality. Their role is not to take extremist views from the Right and Left and present them as balanced. That way lies madness.

What about the Conservatives?

Philip Davies MP, from the Commons culture select committee says:

I don’t think the BBC should be a platform for people to spout hatred against this country.

Greg Hands MP says:

I don’t think that’s how licence fee payers want their money spent.

Who the hell does Greg think he speaks for? The people who elected him or something?

Isn’t there any way of redeeming these lost political souls? As Peter might say:

if we fail to reach this “lost audience” it is likely that they will have few sources of reputable information to provide a rounded view of the world. Surely failing to meet that obligation would lead to a democratic deficit – for a disengaged and disenfranchised part of society. That would be real dumbing down.

MPs – the under-served audience…