The BBC are screwed, aren't they?

[kinkytoes]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c891jp9j79do

Are we ever going to find out who actually made the monumental fuck up? Rather than just a homogenous apology from the top.

Is this person/people still working for them?

I actually understand why Trump is doing this. You can't just let something so wrong pass by or they'll just keep doing it.

If you think that of the BBC why do you want to keep it? If you do that is.

I think they have disproportionately allowed representation of the far right on their political broadcasts and programs and don't give anywhere near enough push back to the lies they tell. It started with Brexit and continues with issues like immigration, tax, transgender etc. Contrasting views are important but ones that are built on lies and hate have no place in society.

And there we have it. This seems to be what the BBC believe as well

"You should be biased against non democratic right wing scumbags."

You do know that democratic doesn't mean "aligned with Snakebite's political ideology" presumably...

@Whistl3r disproportionate? By far right I assume you mean Reform who are currently at around 33%, 15 points ahead of Labour.

The BBC is supposed to be the UK’s national broadcaster. It’s supposed to serve the public interest and not have any political bias. A lot of people have been saying for a long time that it often comes across as biased. I’m not a fan of Trump, but this incident is worrying and I can’t see how anyone can brush it off as a non-incidence. It has damaged the BBC’s reputation and I can’t see how they can ever come back from this. I won’t ever trust it any more.

It blows my mind that people who distrust the BBC will sit glued to literal right wing propaganda channels like GBnews and talktv. Some people are as thick as mince and so easily fast lit and causes so many issues in this country. I think channels should be fact checked vigorously and big fines imposed and potentially licences to broadcast revoked when they repeatedly misinform the public.

The idea that the BBC editing trumps in anyway changed the message or intent of speech is laughable but has been given so much focus when these far right channels do far worse every day.

@LivelovebehappyMy point was - who would sack them? The DG is the most senior person at the corporation - it would be a complicated case for a sacking for something he had no direct responsibility for, there's every likelihood he never watched the programme, and even if he had - he may well have been unaware of that specific edit. The people in the cutting room held the direct responsibility and they were employed by October films, and most likely freelancers - as a significant proportion of those who work for the BBC are.

Contrasting views are important but ones that disagree with Whistl3r's ideology are built on lies and hate have no place in society

Fixed it for you. Or do you not like it when someone changes what you actually said into what they know you mean?

If the BBC is to be considered journalism rather than propaganda, it needs to tell the truth even when it contradicts your worldview.

@Whistl3r the difference is that GB News and Talk Tv are completely open about their views and opinions and people understand this. Hence why the bulk of their programmes are opinion based.

January 6th Trump asked for the national guard to protect the WH and Nancy Pelosi refused
That isn’t true. Days before the riots there are disputed accounts of Trump floating ideas of various security arrangements that’s what MAGA rely on to muddy the narrative. It was Pence who ultimately called them on 6th January despite Trump having authority to do so. Weird that it was Pence and not Trump despite Trump apparently being concerned, and it’s not like Pence did it straightaway so Trump could have if he wanted to.

It won’t be our cash. They’ll have insurance

It doesn't matter! It's our BBC. They should fucking fight him.

Someone has to say no to this monster.

If they are found to have behaved maliciously the insurance may not pay up.

Do they have a habit of doing this? Apparently videos from Orgreave during the miners' strike were edited to show the miners attacking the police first, whereas it was the other way round. Serve them right. They push trans issues in children's programs, and didn't report on Gaza and the dire situation there. They are biased as said by another poster on here. I'm not going to help bail them out.

The DG is the figurehead so he needs to go as he sets the tone for the whole organisation. The board needs to go, as do the special groups who push special interests of transgender, foreign States, and who knows what else. Didn't Boris Johnson put these people into power?

I'm driven to Kipling 😂

We never pay anyone Danegeld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that plays it is lost

I've been away for a day and just seen this.

Are you accusing me of something?

didn't report on Gaza and the dire situation there.

You have to be joking? It was on the news night after night on the Beeb and one of the biggest complaints against their bias is that they aired a whole hours documentary presented by the teenage son of an official of the proscribed terrorist organisation Hamas.

So is neutrality and objectivity to be found on the extreme right then?

But who pays for higher insurance premiums as a result of this?

I'm awake thanks.

Trump may not care but I do!

If you read the thread you'd know that I know this, just worded it poorly.

Does the extreme right run a state media outlet, funded through a compulsory TV licence (required to consume any real-time media - not only the BBC-produced media - and barely distinguished from taxation) which claims to be politically neutral?

I mean I don't expect 'Socialist Worker' to be un-biased, but it doesn't pretend to be, and I'm not required to pay for the drivel they write if I want to watch a sports match live on (already paid for) Amazon Prime.

Just pointing out this is one thread of many.