Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

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Johnnytheboy

24,498 posts

185 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Another early start, another experience of the hilariously mis titled Farming Today, which true to form had very little to do with farming. Three items:

One on a project to reintroduce wild mussels to a river.
One about PETA's anti-wool campaign, which did actually quote a farmer.
Finally a long piece about renewable energy which was more or less an advert for it.

coppice

8,561 posts

143 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Bloody mussels-every damned one of them signed up to Momentum .And now they have the oxygen of publicity thanks to the rabidly pro- mollusc BBC. Outrageous - and tell me this - when were the decent, hard working members of the invertebrate community (every one a shire county Tory)last covered by Farming Today -hmmm?

Andehh

7,107 posts

205 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Finally moved all my homepages off the BBC and onto Google News. I used to be such a big supporter of the BBC, but over the last few months the drivel that seems to come out of there is frustrating to say the least. The ''100 women of 2016'' was the final nail. Do we really need 100 articles on it?

Edited by Andehh on Friday 9th December 08:31

WinstonWolf

72,857 posts

238 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Nice sexist bit of indoctrination about a women's collective on Breakfast this morning.

Banning men from a housing complex, fine. Men only clubs, not fine grumpy

SKP555

1,114 posts

125 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.

greygoose

8,224 posts

194 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
Front page of the lefty Telegraph too.

andymadmak

14,482 posts

269 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
That was my take on it too. Especially when you listen to what Johnson actually said vs how the Beeb and the Grauniad have hyped it

turbobloke

103,739 posts

259 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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andymadmak said:
SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
That was my take on it too. Especially when you listen to what Johnson actually said vs how the Beeb and the Grauniad have hyped it
Judging by the headline on the front page of this morning's Grauniad, they already appreciate it won't work.

motco

15,918 posts

245 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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turbobloke said:
andymadmak said:
SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
That was my take on it too. Especially when you listen to what Johnson actually said vs how the Beeb and the Grauniad have hyped it
Judging by the headline on the front page of this morning's Grauniad, they already appreciate it won't work.
Don't worry chaps, he's been "...slapped down by Mrs May!"


turbobloke

103,739 posts

259 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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motco said:
turbobloke said:
andymadmak said:
SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
That was my take on it too. Especially when you listen to what Johnson actually said vs how the Beeb and the Grauniad have hyped it
Judging by the headline on the front page of this morning's Grauniad, they already appreciate it won't work.
Don't worry chaps, he's been "...slapped down by Mrs May!"
He won't mind as long as he didn't have to pay.

superlightr

12,842 posts

262 months

Friday 9th December 2016
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SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
agree. The funny thing was the BBC actually confirmed that what BOJO said about Saudi being a puppet master and helping with proxy wars was true and known to be true but just not talked about openly.

Mike_Mac

664 posts

199 months

Saturday 10th December 2016
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superlightr said:
SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
agree. The funny thing was the BBC actually confirmed that what BOJO said about Saudi being a puppet master and helping with proxy wars was true and known to be true but just not talked about openly.
Can't have a politician saying something that's true after all - where would we be if that happened more often!!

(PS - don't like BoJo, but in this case I totally agree with what he said!)

loafer123

15,404 posts

214 months

Saturday 10th December 2016
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Slight topic diversion but the Russian being interviewed on PM on R4 right now sounds uncannily like one of the Compare the Market Meerkats.

He's even called Sergei...you could tell the presenter was trying not to laugh.

T6 vanman

3,055 posts

98 months

Saturday 10th December 2016
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5PM BBC NEWS

Not sure of the first news story as got to the TV late but maybe I caught the tail of it, the death of a food critic???
17:07 Syria - the war for Allepo
17:10 Trump - Accusations of Russia rigging the US election
17:16 Rerun of headlines
17:16 Protest disrupts J Corbyn's speech

We have had 2 days of prime first story news regarding Boris's off the cuff remark about Saudi with their news correspondents trying to drive the story forward with talk of split's, reprimands, and etc etc.
Disrupted speech high jacked by demonstrators gets 4th billing????

Would a disrupted Tory speech get brushed under the carpet so readily????

T6 vanman

3,055 posts

98 months

Saturday 10th December 2016
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T6 vanman said:
5PM BBC NEWS

Not sure of the first news story as got to the TV late but maybe I caught the tail of it, the death of a food critic???
17:07 Syria - the war for Allepo
17:10 Trump - Accusations of Russia rigging the US election
17:16 Rerun of headlines
17:16 Protest disrupts J Corbyn's speech

We have had 2 days of prime first story news regarding Boris's off the cuff remark about Saudi with their news correspondents trying to drive the story forward with talk of split's, reprimands, and etc etc.
Disrupted speech high jacked by demonstrators gets 4th billing????

Would a disrupted Tory speech get brushed under the carpet so readily????
BBC1 BBC NEWS
17:40 Trump - Accusations of Russia rigging the US election
17:45 Syria - the war for Allepo
17:47 Corbyn held a speech regarding arms sales o Saudi ...... The report of protesters lasted 10 seconds of a 26 second news snippet
17:47 Doctors wanting Diesel cars banning from London (report lasted about 3 Minutes)
I guess maybe even the BBC think JC is so irrelevant to have this news story so low down the list.
Actually I thought after the bumbling around on stage a little he responded quite well and ad libbing spoke quite eloquently to Tatchel but you never got to see that on this news programme

B'stard Child

28,320 posts

245 months

Sunday 11th December 2016
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T6 vanman said:
I guess maybe even the BBC think JC is so irrelevant to have this news story so low down the list.
Actually I thought after the bumbling around on stage a little he responded quite well and ad libbing spoke quite eloquently to Tatchel but you never got to see that on this news programme
I said that in the Corbyn thread and got slapped down

Andy Zarse

10,868 posts

246 months

Sunday 11th December 2016
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T6 vanman said:
T6 vanman said:
5PM BBC NEWS

Not sure of the first news story as got to the TV late but maybe I caught the tail of it, the death of a food critic???
17:07 Syria - the war for Allepo
17:10 Trump - Accusations of Russia rigging the US election
17:16 Rerun of headlines
17:16 Protest disrupts J Corbyn's speech

We have had 2 days of prime first story news regarding Boris's off the cuff remark about Saudi with their news correspondents trying to drive the story forward with talk of split's, reprimands, and etc etc.
Disrupted speech high jacked by demonstrators gets 4th billing????

Would a disrupted Tory speech get brushed under the carpet so readily????
BBC1 BBC NEWS
17:40 Trump - Accusations of Russia rigging the US election
17:45 Syria - the war for Allepo
17:47 Corbyn held a speech regarding arms sales o Saudi ...... The report of protesters lasted 10 seconds of a 26 second news snippet
17:47 Doctors wanting Diesel cars banning from London (report lasted about 3 Minutes)
I guess maybe even the BBC think JC is so irrelevant to have this news story so low down the list.
Actually I thought after the bumbling around on stage a little he responded quite well and ad libbing spoke quite eloquently to Tatchel but you never got to see that on this news programme
Jeremy still hasn't got around to condemn the Aleppo atrocities though has he. This would have been an ideal opportunity don't you think?

Lucas Ayde

3,541 posts

167 months

Sunday 11th December 2016
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Does anyone believe a word that the so-called 'journalists' on BBC News utter any more?

It has never been more apparent that they are pushing a narrative.

anonymous-user

53 months

Sunday 11th December 2016
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SKP555 said:
Looking at the absurd coverage of Boris Johnsons relatively trivial comments on Saudi Arabia I suspect the BBC are keen to bring down a prominent Brexit supporter.
Absolute nonsense of course. He also was all over every other news channel.

T6 vanman

3,055 posts

98 months

Sunday 11th December 2016
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Andy Zarse said:
Jeremy still hasn't got around to condemn the Aleppo atrocities though has he. This would have been an ideal opportunity don't you think?
Andy .... I think you'd need to watch the whole speech to get your answer ..... I've slept, run and completed child care responsibilities since posting so do not exactly remember but 'without wanting to be quoted' think his response was more a mealy mouthed "all parties need to stop fighting" and" we need a political democratic solution to the tragedy"
So I'll agree with you as his response was more a school sports day "there'll be no winner's and no loser's / no-ones wrong and no-
ones right" ...rather than condemn (Russia/Assad/Saudi/Tony Blair/Thatcher/Murdock) delete as appropriate
My thoughts of the BBC was as this was an interrupted speech from the opposition leader it rated higher than a 4th placed news item,
My personal view was once he got back on the stage he handled it extremely well, (Begrudgingly as I'm in no way a fan of him) smile
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