At 18 Doughty Street We're a Bunch of Liberal Lefties...

Published: August 8, 2007, 4:33 am

I really must check out Bob Piper's blog more often. He has drawn my attention to THIS piece on CommentIsFree by someone called Ben Marshall, who believes 18 Doughty Street to be a bastion of liberal lefties. Our efforts to become moe non partisan have clearly gone a little too far! Ben, a freelance journo, writes...18 Doughty Street, the online TV station that bills itself as 'politics for adults', will be shortly be celebrating its first birthday. Although Doughty Street calls itself a TV and news station it does not operate under the Ofcom broadcasting code which requires 'due impartiality'. On the upside this makes for riveting debates, just check out the Independent's Johann Hari talking with Peter Tatchell about the dangers of Multiculturalism, or Julie Bindel on the legacy of the Suffragettes. The downside, of course, is that as more and more people get their news from bloggers, vloggers and sites like Doughty, opinion becomes indistinguishable from fact. Doughty Street has a

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