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AIBU?

To think the BBC are working overtime to promote Nigel Farage

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Unfinishedkitchen · 12/04/2019 20:41

Just that really. He must have friends high up in the BBC.

Before the referendum he was practically on every BBC programme. He was probably even asked to appear on Strictly and read the bedtime story on CBeebies.

There are actual elected politicians who get zero time on any BBC programme but as soon as Farage farts he’s swarmed by the BBC.

There he is today, top of every news hour, with his new party next to self styled ‘woman of the people’, Rees-Moggs sister, Annunziata.

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RageAgainstTheVendingMachine · 15/04/2019 03:17

thenewsdump.co.uk/theresa-mays-cbeebies-bedtime-story-voted-worst-ever

RageAgainstTheVendingMachine · 15/04/2019 03:15

He was probably even asked to appear on Strictly and read the bedtime story on CBeebies.

You nearly had me
newsthump.com/2017/03/20/nigel-farage-to-read-a-bedtime-story-on-cbeebies/

tantamountto · 15/04/2019 03:03

I also think that they don't do their homework. So much obvious rubbish gets spouted, even on Radio 4, about Brexit, with the interviewer not correcting it or challenging it.
The BBC is no longer doing its job properly. And that benefits the pro-hard Brexit liars.

tantamountto · 15/04/2019 03:00

He gets much too much coverage, yes. And I've heard him basically threaten civil unrest on the radio, with no-one daring to stop him or disagree with him. Part of it is the BBC obsession with personalities. They are far keener to talk about who the next leader of a party might be, etc etc, than about the actual effect that Brexit will / would have on our lives. They have dumbed down. And Farage is a colorful character. But I suspect it's about more than that - definite bias in favour of a hard Brexit. It's extremely worrying.

Gth1234 · 15/04/2019 02:03

@hobspawn. The green party are totally boring. I can't imagine anyone voting for them, especially when they were led by Natalie Bennett. A party for snowflake hand wringers.

Gth1234 · 15/04/2019 02:01

I don't really recall Nigel being on QT since the referendum. The BBC are definitely anti Farage, not pro Farage, in the same way they are anti brexit.

llewellyn25 · 13/04/2019 20:22

I completely agree with you, they seem to have an odd obsession with him.

Hobsbawm · 13/04/2019 20:13

Thanks @marvellousnightforamooncup - I'm not usually eloquent!

bellinisurge · 13/04/2019 09:15

Is this the Nigel Farage from www.thebrexitparty.com ?

marvellousnightforamooncup · 13/04/2019 08:28

Hobsbawm, thankyou for saying more eloquently what I was about to write.

Hobsbawm · 13/04/2019 08:10

He's only an 'important player' and able to gain support because the media give him a disproportionate amount of air time.

The Green Party are a well-established alternative but small party. Yet they didn't get anywhere near the amount of air time or general media coverage that UKIP and Farage got in the run up to the last couple of elections (or since). Considering the Green Party were founded because of environmental concerns and that most experts think we are lurching towards a global disaster with climate change, surely there has been more legitimacy in giving Caroline Luca’s airtime than Farage? I'm not a Green Party supporter, I'm simply evidencing my point.

There is no justification for the image of Farage and the sound of his voice to be in the "news" as much as it is. None. No one really knew who he was until the mainstream media started to provide him with coverage. I cannot think how or why it remotely acceptable to give a far-right activist a big platform, especially not considering recent events in New Zealand!

stillpinching · 12/04/2019 22:14

No of course he doesn't have friends in the BBC. How fucking ridiculous and boring everyone is who thinks that. Fucking bores and idiots! I realise now you've pointed it out so eloquently that there is no bias and I must be imagining it every time 8.10am comes round and the today programme interviews one of their 6 back bench, right wing pro Brexit rebel rousers. Well I say interview....

Krimpy · 12/04/2019 22:12

Some people getting awfully het up

NotStayingIn · 12/04/2019 22:03

Are you kidding me! If course he doesn’t have friends in the BBC. This is such a fucking boring arguement. EVERYONE always thinks the person they dislike most gets preferential treatment. You are looking at this with a tainted point of view. So fucking boring to read this shit. I’m not even pro BBC. But fuck me this is boring, grow up and start seeing the world without your bias.

Alsohuman · 12/04/2019 22:00

No it isn't. He launched his new party today, of course it was top of the news. Any day now it will be the Change Party.

stillpinching · 12/04/2019 22:00

No one is saying they should boycott him. Just that reporting should be responsible and in proportion to his importance, relevance and achievements to date. Other MEPs, including those who support remain, should also be given airtime for balance.

Why are members of the ERG given so much airtime? Why are their reactions to the PM's latest moves given prominence and reported as 'the news'?

Anyone who doesn't think there is a problem at the BBC clearly doesn't watch/listen to much of the news output and would do well to Google Nick Boles' comments on Robbie Gibb and Sarah Sands editorship of the today programme.

colouringinpro · 12/04/2019 21:59

Totally agree. Disproportionate amount of coverage, especially of his "make life he'll for MPs speech given Jo Cox and Rosie.

Announce the news yes. Anything beyond that = bias.

Just like the massive number of sessions on bbcqt compared to other parties.

Unfinishedkitchen · 12/04/2019 21:56

There’s a middle way between acting like fanboys and boycotting. It’s called proportionate reporting. Top billing every hour is disproportionate.

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CherryPavlova · 12/04/2019 21:55

He is given too much air time. Odious, corrupt man. Other UKparties with greater parliamentary representation get far less coverage.

BeerandBiscuits · 12/04/2019 21:52

I think he'll get a lot of votes.
If the BBC boycotted him he'd get even more votes.

Alsohuman · 12/04/2019 21:19

The Right accuse the BBC of favouring the Left who make the same accusation the other way. That indicates balance to me.

wigglypiggly · 12/04/2019 21:16

It makes a change from the BBC supporting no Brexit

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stillpinching · 12/04/2019 21:14

There was a long tradition of challenging politicians when they spout shit. Alsohuman, but you're right- it's not just farage who often goes unchallenged now. Recently John Redwood was given a very satisfying ticking off on channel 4 news. Heidi Allen was also called out minutes later, so gutsy unbiased journalism does still exist, but it's not often found on the BBC anymore, sadly.

contentedsoul · 12/04/2019 21:12

Well after witnessing the government completely try to derail the result of the referendum and seeing how backwards labour is.
I had intentions of never voting again. But whether you agree with Nigel Farage or not, he certainly has a "presence" and I'll vote for him.

meditrina · 12/04/2019 21:10

"Ffs, can't believe I'm defending coverage of fucking Farage!"

Me neither, but the premise of this thread is wrong and that needs to be said.

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