How bent are the Beeb?

BlindBoyGrunt

BlindBoyGrunt

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And how controlled by NeoLiberal psychopaths are we? They have their useful idiots in all the right posts and are wrecking the country for the sake of a handful of billionaires.

Two short reads.

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Has Liz Truss handed power over to the extreme neoliberal thinktanks? | George Monbiot

The prime minister is in hock to rightwing lobbyists who are themselves indebted to oligarchs and corporations, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Rightwing thinktanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC | George Monbiot

Why are representatives of these shadily funded groups treated as impartial observers on news programmes? asks Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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You can see where they are at by their reporting of the train strikes. Their slant was to cover how inconvenienced people were by this dastardly strike action, not what is forcing the issues behind the strikes.

Absolute joke of an organisation, but the number of ex Tory party members running the show, should we be surprised?
 
h_m_boro said:
You can see where they are at by their reporting of the train strikes. Their slant was to cover how inconvenienced people were by this dastardly strike action, not what is forcing the issues behind the strikes.

Absolute joke of an organisation, but the number of ex Tory party members running the show, should we be surprised?
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How do you think the public would react if there was no mention of the inconvenience to the public, and just a nationally funded hatchet job on the elected majority government? Its important to try and see it from the collective point of view when discussing impartiality.
 
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I think they have shifted from balanced to cowed. They are micromanaged by overpaid sniveling sh1thouses who know which side their bread is buttered on. They have a Tory donor as chairman and a former Tory council candidate as DG. Their independence is draining away.
 
JackG said:
I think they have shifted from balanced to cowed. They are micromanaged by overpaid sniveling sh1thouses who know which side their bread is buttered on. They have a Tory donor as chairman and a former Tory council candidate as DG. Their independence is draining away.
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I'd like to think the incoming government will address some of these issues, even if I don't entirely agree with you, public perception is crucial to its survival. I still don't see a modern world where everyone agrees that the BBC is impartial though, not where people can air their own opinions so easily and widely online. Part of the problem I think is that true impartiality can only be judged by the truly impartial, and I don't think I know a single person qualified.
 
I listened to a person who admitted to not having a clue about the economy then given a 5 minute platform as to why tax reduction for the wealthy would benefit society without a single challenge. She wasn't a member of parliament or a representative of any kind yet continued without question. Absolute propaganda and nothing else.
 
Randy said:
And people wonder why TV licensing is under scrutiny.
Glad I don't pay mine anymore.
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The thing is, the Right-leaning folk claim its all Lefty wokist rubbish, and heavily biased against the Tories. You'd have a better chance of getting it abolished if you anti-BBC folk could all agree who exactly its biased towards. As long as you continue to disagree on that, to the rather extreme levels you do, it will be able to continue to claim its providing balanced coverage.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I listened to a person who admitted to not having a clue about the economy then given a 5 minute platform as to why tax reduction for the wealthy would benefit society without a single challenge. She wasn't a member of parliament or a representative of any kind yet continued without question. Absolute propaganda and nothing else.
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Who is it propaganda for? This morning a Tory voting work colleague had a ten minute rant at me about how awful BBC Breakfast presenters were behaving towards Liz Truss.
 
Can you remember when Corbyn was portrayed wearing a Russian hat. Or more recently when a news presenter said that inflation had not been this high since Michael Foot was leader of the Labour Party
 
Trug said:
Can you remember when Corbyn was portrayed wearing a Russian hat. Or more recently when a news presenter said that inflation had not been this high since Michael Foot was leader of the Labour Party
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I certainly can. But go on the websites where the Right post all the examples of the BBC being biased against them, there’s tons of examples of that as well.

Anyway, as I say, I’m sure the incoming government will try to address these perceptions, but at present the anti-BBC cohort of society seem unanimously agreed that it’s biased against whoever they vote for.
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
Well she has made a series of ridiculous decisions, even the majority of Tories are upset at her
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Well, even if that’s true, are the BBC trying to overthrow her to save the Tories, or fight her corner as you suggested above? Doesn’t seem worth them trying to do both.
 
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