Political bias at BBC - something has to be done surely

[git-r]

Stickyfinger said:

as often quoted by the BBC themselves, they even believe it.... !

I'd imagine there are all sorts of criteria to meet before anything can be broadcast to ensure impartiality and accuracy. I'd also imagine a lot of other networks having nothing like the same standards.

Look back at history in areas of conflict and it's auntie Beeb that warring sides get their news from.

[SKP555]

git-r said:

I'd imagine there are all sorts of criteria to meet before anything can be broadcast to ensure impartiality and accuracy. I'd also imagine a lot of other networks having nothing like the same standards.

Look back at history in areas of conflict and it's auntie Beeb that warring sides get their news from.

Why do you think that?

[git-r]

Red tape - didn't they invent it?

[Stickyfinger]

git-r said:

Red tape - didn't they invent it?

used to enact/justify their agenda

[git-r]

- there are some interesting autobiographies from some of the journalists that have worked there that might be worth a look for another view on the Beeb. John simpson's books are quite interesting (not really about the Beeb but makes some reference to how it works )

[don4l]

The best way to eradicate bias at the BBC is to eradicate the BBC.

[Stickyfinger]

don4l said:

The best way to eradicate bias at the BBC is to eradicate the BBC.

No it is NOT

just eradicate the "Current Affairs" team/management.

Not much bias in a programme about Saturn's moons

[chrispmartha]

Stickyfinger said:

don4l said:

The best way to eradicate bias at the BBC is to eradicate the BBC.

No it is NOT

just eradicate the "Current Affairs" team/management.

Not much bias in a programme about Saturn's moons

Mr Tumble is rife with political bias

[768]

Fear not. I don't think Yewtree's over yet.

[98elise]

git-r said:

Stickyfinger said:

as often quoted by the BBC themselves, they even believe it.... !

I'd imagine there are all sorts of criteria to meet before anything can be broadcast to ensure impartiality and accuracy. I'd also imagine a lot of other networks having nothing like the same standards.

Look back at history in areas of conflict and it's auntie Beeb that warring sides get their news from.

Look at when the whole David Cameron offshore trust story broke. The BBC were falling over themselves to show it was some sort of tax dodge. They wheeled a tax expert on who basically said he's paid full UK tax on profits. The presenter could hardly contain her exasperation that there wasn't anything dodgy going on.

The same presenter funnels her earnings through a Ltd company....not for tax benefits of course!

[don4l]

Stickyfinger said:

don4l said:

The best way to eradicate bias at the BBC is to eradicate the BBC.

No it is NOT

just eradicate the "Current Affairs" team/management.

Not much bias in a programme about Saturn's moons

I wish that I could agree with you. The vast majority of the BBC has become infected with people who are engaged in social engineering rather than entertainment. Any programmes about nature cannot stop promoting fear of AGW.

I like Melvyn Bragg, and the current series about Rick Stein's travels, but that is about it.

I would be very happy if they moved towards a pay per view model.

I cannot for the life of me see why they need to have so many stations, in so many languages.

[Stickyfinger]

don4l said:

Stickyfinger said:

don4l said:

The best way to eradicate bias at the BBC is to eradicate the BBC.

No it is NOT

just eradicate the "Current Affairs" team/management.

Not much bias in a programme about Saturn's moons

I cannot for the life of me see why they need to have so many stations, in so many languages.

Who are run/funded by the "non" creative side of the BBC....which is the root of the problem

You did not think they would not want to preach..err, broadcast to the world did you ? which makes the world think WE think like they do !

[crmcatee]

Anyone would think there were Vegans at the BBC.


A business story about CCL buying Innovia (who make the new fiver).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-38376517

11 Paragraphs about business news, 8 of which relate back to the tallow. Not exactly business orientated is it ?

BBC said:

The UK company that makes the new £5 note, recently found to contain animal fat, has been bought by Canada's CCL for 1.13bn Canadian dollars (£680m).

Innovia, owned by a group of UK private equity investors, makes most of the polymer banknotes around the world.

The firm has been in the spotlight after it emerged the new £5 note contains a small amount of tallow, derived from animal waste products.

A petition to ban the note has attracted more than 132,000 signatures.

The Bank of England said last month that Innovia was working on "potential solutions" to the animal fat issue.

Tallow 'unacceptable'
Canadian firm CCL Industries, which specialises in label and packaging maker, said buying Innovia would make it "a world leader" in the polymer banknote market.

Innovia chief executive Mark Robertshaw said CCL would be "an excellent long-term owner" and there was a good fit between the two firms.

The petition to ban the new £5 note, hosted on the Change.org website, calls on the Bank of England to "cease to use animal products in the production of currency that we have to use".

It states that tallow is "unacceptable to millions of vegans, vegetarians, Hindus, Sikhs, Jains and others in the UK".

A number of Sikh and Hindus have also urged the notes be banned from temples, where meat products are forbidden.

Hindus believe cows are holy and sacred, and many do not wear shoes or carry bags made from the skin of cattle that has been slaughtered. Practicing Sikhs are strict vegetarians.

[Colonial]

Yeah. How dare those lefties relate a story back to something that was in the news in the past fortnight or so.

Despicable.

[hidetheelephants]

Reporting on Obama banning offshore oil&gas exploration in Alaska and elsewhere the moron responsible for the story decided that the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Kulluk grounding were good examples of why drilling for oil at sea was controversial/environmentally damaging and should be stopped. Are BBC News recruiting from a pool of people too stupid to write for the Daily Mail?

[Smollet]

hidetheelephants said:

Reporting on Obama banning offshore oil&gas exploration in Alaska and elsewhere the moron responsible for the story decided that the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Kulluk grounding were good examples of why drilling for oil at sea was controversial/environmentally damaging and should be stopped. Are BBC News recruiting from a pool of people too stupid to write for the Daily Mail?

Journalism generally is very poor these days.

[The Don of Croy]

hidetheelephants said:

Reporting on Obama banning offshore oil&gas exploration in Alaska and elsewhere the moron responsible for the story decided that the Exxon Valdez oil spill and the Kulluk grounding were good examples of why drilling for oil at sea was controversial/environmentally damaging and should be stopped. Are BBC News recruiting from a pool of people too stupid to write for the Daily Mail?

Just heard that - the mention of 'some of the oil is still there' seems to be superfluous at best, given what nature does to crude oil spills (ref. Amoco Cadiz, Braer, Torre Canyon). Scare mongering. Again.

[rohrl]

The Daily Telegraph said:

The BBC's political editor, Laura Kuenssberg, has been accused of breaching impartiality guidelines in a draft report over her dispatch on Jeremy Corbyn's shoot-to-kill policy.

A leaked copy of the BBC Trust's draft report into her piece for News at Six said that there had been a "failure of impartiality"

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/07/bbc-edi...

[Stickyfinger]

rohrl said:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/01/07/bbc-edi...

"A BBC spokesman said: "BBC News does not accept the assertions made and the complaint has been rejected on four separate occasions already.

"The Trust has not published a finding regarding this appeal and BBC News has further evidence it is still to present this month before that happens."

= BBC publishes the internal report

[Colonial]

I saw one of them wearing a red tie.

Red = communism. The lefty traitor should be hung, drawn and quartered.

I can't tell you what program or time but I got so angry I spilt my port amd my jowls did shake.