The Biased Broadcasting Corporation

While the rest of us are still awaiting the outcome of the Scottish Government's consultation on same-sex marriage, Fred MacAuley has obviously decided what it is going to be, with his talk of Susan Calman's 'marriage' on MacAuley and Co this morning. (In point of fact, Susan Calman has entered into a Civil Partnership with another woman. Same-sex couples cannot currently get married in Scotland.) Now, Calton may be being a bit naive here but isn't the BBC supposed to be impartial and unbiased? Is it really appropriate for a BBC presenter to be preempting the result of a public consultation by the Scottish Government? If Fred wants to champion gay marriage in his own time, fair enough. To do so on air, on the BBC, without opportunity for a balancing view to be put before the audience is not acceptable or, to put it another way, not 'British' but biased.