Joey Jones on Sky news reported this as George Osborne being ganged up on. This seems a tad emotive, possibly to elicit sympathy and support to the Tories?
Possibly, just possibly, he said it because it was true. Darling and Cable did gang up on Osborne, and Cable was allowed to get away with murder, being hardly challenged by the moderator, unlike Osborne.
And it does go against what a lot of twitter viewers were saying, myself included. But it could be me being anti-conservatives. But I am not the only one noticing this creeping bias, and my viewership of Sky News has decreased since I started noticing these changes, and with Tory policy so pro BSkyB and Murdoch, and anti-BBC as is Rupert Murdoch, and BSkyB. It is fair to look at this with a sceptical eye.
Tend to agree with you on this. It certainly was not noticeable a few years ago and I don't think Sky's political team are any better/worse than those at the BBC or ITN for explicit bias, but there have been several occasions recently when I've been watching and thought 'that is horribly, horribly pro-Tory'.
I think creeping bias is a very good way of describing it.
The Jeff Randall slot is now essentially used as a tool to drag on business people to slag off the Government/public sector. Similarly, the other night it was used as an opportunity for BSkyB to slag off Ofcom, regardless of Randall's perceived hard line. Is this really impartiality?
On their website this week there was a headline saying 'Labour's death tax postponed'. That's a line straight out of Tory Campaign HQ and shouldn't be used anywhere other than in the Daily Express.
I think broadly their political team is very solid but there has been an identifiable shift in the coverage towards the Tories more recently. Can't account for why, and it may not be purposeful, but it is definitely there and clearly I'm not the only one who has noticed.