Not The B-Word Again?

I would like to mention two BBC headlines, both on the same day, about the withdrawl of a Labour candidate and the resignation of the Tory Deputy Mayor of London. They are:

Tories in 'disarray' over Lewis
Labour Man Quits By-Election Race

Spot the difference anyone? The first story is the BBC reporting on what Hazel Blears said about the Tory deputy mayor, and the other is reporting about the withdrawl of a man from the Labour candidacy. Any fair corporation would have phrased the first story as "Deputy Mayor Quits Over Allegations," rather than letting Labour assume that the Tories are guilty of letting an improper person be mayor and then reporting Labour's statements as fact. Who knows, he could be innocent!
Similarly, the second story, in keeping with the first, should be phrased "Labour in "complete meltdown" in Scotland." Of course, I would not want the BBC to go down the partisan political route of this type of headline. The facts should be reported, and nothing more. Which makes using Labour's opinion of the Conservatives in London as a basis for a major news story while refusing to publish a similarly provocative headline about Labour's troubles in Glasgow incredibly biased.


There we go, used the word. Out of my system now.