Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

[anonymous-user]

Maybe those other sources cut and paste from the BBC website as they struggle to compete with the massively funded state behemoth and can't afford their own people?

[768]

That's a selection of remarkably similar phrases if they haven't been cut and pasting.

[TheInternet]

desperate said:

Maybe those other sources cut and paste from the BBC website as they struggle to compete with the massively funded state behemoth and can't afford their own people?

[anonymous-user]

TheInternet said:

I was being sarcastic in my post, just to clarify.
The post above mine is absolutely spot on.

[Einion Yrth]

768 said:

That's a selection of remarkably similar phrases if they haven't been cut and pasting.

It's just journalese, a sub-standard, pruned back and bastardised form of what was once English perpetrated by those who would seek to describe themselves as journalists; John Pilger or Hunter S. Thompson, they are not; but nor do I see any need for plagiarism or collusion to generate this drivel.

[jjlynn27]

This thread is almost as funny as 'Head kipper tells lesser kippers what everyone knew'. Mentioning that it was privately run prison is a clear sign that BBC is overrun by lefties.

[Europa1]

desolate said:

TheInternet said:

I was being sarcastic in my post, just to clarify.
The post above mine is absolutely spot on.

Yes, those poor crusading journalists at the various arms of the Murdoch empire, bravely retransmitting news from the BBC Home Service...

I do think the BBC is occasionally biased, and have posted on this thread when I have felt they were (Sarah Montague's interviews with the London Mayor candidates being a case in point), but the reaction to this particular story just feels like an overreaction, as though people were desperately waiting to be offended and were pleased when they were.

[TheInternet]

desolate said:

I was being sarcastic in my post, just to clarify.

Apologies, it's one of those threads where it's hard to tell. I do occasionally wonder if the entire thing is just one massive wind up.

[Stickyfinger]

Europa1 said:

desolate said:

TheInternet said:

I was being sarcastic in my post, just to clarify.
The post above mine is absolutely spot on.

Yes, those poor crusading journalists at the various arms of the Murdoch empire, bravely retransmitting news from the BBC Home Service...

I do think the BBC is occasionally biased, and have posted on this thread when I have felt they were (Sarah Montague's interviews with the London Mayor candidates being a case in point), but the reaction to this particular story just feels like an overreaction, as though people were desperately waiting to be offended and were pleased when they were.

Drip drip drip....you fall into the trap by talking about each point

[Biker 1]

& so it continues; barely disguised by putting part of the title in quotes. Its over, can't the BEEB just accept it & that perhaps it won't actually be a 'tragedy'?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38344175

[Biker 1]

Johnnytheboy said:

The BBC have about three women foreign correspondents they love sending to a middle east war zone to sympathise with the underdog side, who all sound like an Irish woman being strangled.

The one you named, plus Barbara Plett Usher and Orla Guerin.

I can't listen to any of the, I just turn the radio off.

This.
That fking Guerin woman drives me absolutely insane. Makes my teeth itch, as does that other bleeding heart tt Fergal Keane. I very nearly smashed up my telly last time I saw him. I can't remember what the story was about as I was so angry at him

[anonymous-user]

Biker 1 said:

& so it continues; barely disguised by putting part of the title in quotes. Its over, can't the BEEB just accept it & that perhaps it won't actually be a 'tragedy'?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38344175

It's "in quotes" because it's a quote from the interviewee.

[Biker 1]

desolate said:

It's "in quotes" because it's a quote from the interviewee.

[anonymous-user]

Biker 1 said:

desolate said:

It's "in quotes" because it's a quote from the interviewee.

What are they for?

[Johnnytheboy]

Biker 1 said:

desolate said:

It's "in quotes" because it's a quote from the interviewee.

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EFA.

[motco]

torqueofthedevil said:

Channel 4 but unbelievable bias by Jon Snow on the news just now discussing trump and brexit!!

If Snow leaned any further to the left he would fall off his chair!

[Colonial]

And now the delicate little snowflakes are upset because a football commentator made a joke about Brexit on a comedy panel show.

God, the alt-right is worse than the left for getting upset about the most trivial of things.

[SKP555]

Colonial said:

And now the delicate little snowflakes are upset because a football commentator made a joke about Brexit on a comedy panel show.

God, the alt-right is worse than the left for getting upset about the most trivial of things.

Was the joke any good? I can't find any outrage.

[768]

The joke was all the leave voters would be dead by the time we left the EU.

I wasn't aware of any outrage either.

[turbobloke]

SKP555 said:

Colonial said:

And now the delicate little snowflakes are upset because a football commentator made a joke about Brexit on a comedy panel show.

God, the alt-right is worse than the left for getting upset about the most trivial of things.

Was the joke any good? I can't find any outrage.

Good point: what joke, what outrage?

Cornflakes as usual.