The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

[Jordi Culé]

...apparently?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/14/bbc-editors-asked-journalists-to-avoid-using-lockdown-at-start-of-pandemic

[Tito Fuente]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

Suella Braverman saying "lefties" in Parliament this week is one of the cringiest things that I have ever witnessed.

[+ the native hipster]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

...apparently?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...rt-of-pandemic

is that the same grundian that had us all clutching our pearl necklaces because they reported david attenbrough had been cancelled

[TWGL1]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

Suella Braverman saying "lefties" in Parliament this week is one of the cringiest things that I have ever witnessed.

And yet , anybody with an opinion which differs from the narrative is called right wing by posters like you which is the cringiest about this board.

Let’s hope you cherish free speech and don’t ask Mike to remove the post

[Doucas]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

And yet , anybody with an opinion which differs from the narrative is called right wing by posters like you which is the cringiest about this board.

Let’s hope you cherish free speech and don’t ask Mike to remove the post

The narrative? You are aware we have a massively right wing government and the majority of newspapers in this country are also massively right wing?

Yet you act like the victim constantly.

[the other bob wilson]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

is that the same grundian that had us all clutching our pearl necklaces because they reported david attenbrough had been cancelled

The problem is that the events of the last few days have shown that the scenario was/is entirely believable under the current management of the BBC. Rather than you playing the sort of party political games on here that you accuse those on the left of doing, an acknowledgment that political interference from Governments of the right or left shouldn't be allowed when it comes to appointments of Director Generals, Chairmen/women etc. at the BBC and that it should be down to the same sort of independent person/body which is supposed to be conducting the inquiry into impartiality wouldn't go amiss..

[TWGL1]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

The narrative? You are aware we have a massively right wing government and the majority of newspapers in this country are also massively right wing?

Yet you act like the victim constantly.

A victim because of a football message board..,..that’s a new one I’ll give you that

You are taking things far too seriously.

[Tito Fuente]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

A victim because of a football message board..,..that’s a new one I’ll give you that

You are taking things far too seriously.

Says the child that gets so wound up on a football message board that he calls other posters a c*nt during his little tantrums

[TWGL1]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

You were on a wind up during your passive aggressive rants and I fell for it rather than ignoring for which I apologised. That’s your style and why I usually ignore you.

As long as your wind ups are what you would say face to face then there is no problem is there.

[Tito Fuente]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

You were on a wind up during your passive aggressive rants and I fell for it rather than ignoring for which I apologised. That’s your style and why I usually ignore you.

As long as your wind ups are what you would say face to face then there is no problem is there.

There he goes again.

Calm down mate. It's just a football messageboard, remember?

[JamesWales]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

The narrative? You are aware we have a massively right wing government and the majority of newspapers in this country are also massively right wing?

Yet you act like the victim constantly.

Both of those things are incorrect.

[JamesWales]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

...apparently?

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...rt-of-pandemic

The BBC absolutely should not bow down to political pressure, we all agree on that. I'm not sure this is quite what the guardian thinks it is though. Govts will always put pressure on the media in terms of language. If it wasn't called a lockdown, then when it's a public health message is it right to call it such? I dunno.

The second point appears more damning but it is pretty routine for media editors etc to suggest more focus on different things, the question is how much that was steered by downing st. A good BBC wouldnt need advising that Labour were changing their position daily anyway.

The last point appears to be nonsense but every guardian has to get a dig about Brexit in to drive up advertising revenue by enraging a few people.

It's a useful article in the wider debate about BBC impartiality but I'm not sure it's killer evidence.

My issue is more the editorial decisions and news values on what they report on. I don't think there is a party political bias and we can see that with BBC Wales that does a decent job of holding the (Labour) Welsh Govt to account

[Doucas]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

Both of those things are incorrect.

You're completely delusional.

[Tito Fuente]

Re: The Beeb is influenced by lefties...

The BBC absolutely should not bow down to political pressure, we all agree on that. I'm not sure this is quite what the guardian thinks it is though. Govts will always put pressure on the media in terms of language. If it wasn't called a lockdown, then when it's a public health message is it right to call it such? I dunno.

The second point appears more damning but it is pretty routine for media editors etc to suggest more focus on different things, the question is how much that was steered by downing st. A good BBC wouldnt need advising that Labour were changing their position daily anyway.

The last point appears to be nonsense but every guardian has to get a dig about Brexit in to drive up advertising revenue.

It's a useful article in the wider debate about BBC impartiality but I'm not sure it's killer evidence.

My issue is more the editorial decisions and news values on what they report on. I don't think there is a party political bias and we can see that with BBC Wales that does a decent job of holding the (Labour) Welsh Govt to account

"it is pretty routine for media editors etc to suggest more focus on different things".

That part is correct but media editors don't have to remain impartial at other news outlets/broadcasters.

The message read:

"D St complaining that we’re not reflecting Labour’s mess of plan b online. ie Ashworth said it earlier this week, then reversed. Can we turn up the scepticism a bit on this?”

'Downing Street' complained about a lack of focus of negativity on Labour from the BBC so a senior editor kowtowed to them and told his staff to be more critical.

For what it's worth, I've always felt that the BBC were pretty balanced in terms of news coverage.

The left & right equally complain that it's biased - which, on the balance of probability, shows that they generally do a good job - but how much more damning testimony do you personally need to see that this incarnation of the BBC is in cahoots with the Tory government?