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to say the BBC might be imperfect but

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user427654 · 11/11/2025 12:17

A lot of people here don't appreciate the value in what they have, and it would be beyond foolish to let this institution be decimated.

When I say here, I don't mean on MN, but in general in the UK

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BionicWomansAnkle · 11/11/2025 12:45

Like any organisation or institution that adopts crazy identity politics, it will eventually implode as people simply give up on it. The BBC won’t survive this latest scandal in its current form, very sad,

TheAutumnalCrow · 11/11/2025 12:45

A whole host of senior ‘leaders’ and mangers at the BBC have found to have lied and lied and lied. Its complaints unit is run by a bunch of ideological zealots and it’s a bloody shambles.

How do you unpick a rotten governance culture and rebuild it? How do you make the BBC accountable?

We’re talking about massive issues being misreported and misrepresented by our state broadcaster.

. Women’s rights and children’s safeguarding
. Trump and US politics
. The Middle East
. The detailed science of climate change
. The BBC’s own handling of complaints

It’s not good enough.

Misla · 11/11/2025 12:42

HoskinsChoice · 11/11/2025 12:39

It would be a huge loss if the idiots keep trying to break it. Apart from the TV, the radio and news website are second to none. Then throw in the charity drives they do - children in need, comic relief, sports relief etc. It's hugely important. You can always tell when something is good quality and popular because the media, the stupid and those with massive chips on their shoulders will try to bring it down.

Comic Relief and Sport Relief are nothing to do with the BBC.

We can raise money for charity without a state broadcaster that we are compelled to fund individually.

HoskinsChoice · 11/11/2025 12:39

It would be a huge loss if the idiots keep trying to break it. Apart from the TV, the radio and news website are second to none. Then throw in the charity drives they do - children in need, comic relief, sports relief etc. It's hugely important. You can always tell when something is good quality and popular because the media, the stupid and those with massive chips on their shoulders will try to bring it down.

Bringemout · 11/11/2025 12:38

Honestly I think the trans stuff and the utter avoidance of dealing with any of that honestly really showed how far gone they are. I do feel very sad about it, when I was kid I think there was a lot of care and you didn’t always know which way a journalist would vote for example. Now its really bloody obvious with most of them and I think thats a problem.

Abracadabrador · 11/11/2025 12:36

Prosecuting citizens and threatening them with spam mail and men trying to get in to people's property is indefensible.

People can throw money at the corporation if they want, but to call it a 'licence' is laughable.

I don't consume any of their stuff and don't value them at all.

Misla · 11/11/2025 12:35

I am so tired of the "You'll miss it when it's gone!" argument.

a) We don't have the choice as to whether to fund the BBC or not. If we, as individuals, don't pay for the BBC - we get prosecuted.

b) Other countries seem to cope. France? Germany? Canada? They all seem to cope without a state broadcaster that they are compelled to fund individually.

c) If you are setting yourself up as an impartial, authoritative source - you'd better act as one. Which means you cannot allow your organisation to be so biased that you can't even see it.

Nitgel · 11/11/2025 12:32

Well.i like the radio and news. Tv is generally bad though. Repeats soaps and gameshows.

hamstersarse · 11/11/2025 12:30

Can you describe the value please

CanSeeClearlyNowTheRainHasGone · 11/11/2025 12:30

YANBU but i think the impartiality model is broken.

It feels like when you get enough like minded people together that impartial and groupthink become closely associated.

You can say that the news can present only factual information but the very act of selection of what to report on and what to exclude is fundamentally political and influenced by that groupthink.

I would be much happier if there was less opinion and more explanation, and more genuine questioning of politicians and less trying to trip them up for a gotcha moment .

I kinda prefer the LBC or Spectator model these days where your personal opinions are known and you can use them to elicit answers or make arguments, but where there are people with different personal opinions.

It feels like the BBC still doesn't understand that splicing trumps sentences like that was truly bad. Just now they've said they wanted to show how people received his message rather than admitting they messed up.

I am noting that many of these issues come from independent production companies but I find it awful that the BBC are abdication responsibility in the validation process.

They will make mistakes
We all do
But they need to accept they have an inherent bias (we all do) and be honest about that.