BBC news output is a total disgrace

[BastardBBC]

For a long time they were accused of having a left-wing bias and there was definitely some truth in that, despite their constant banging-on about their impartiality.

Now they have swung the other way and are clearly biased against Labour. I remember being amazed at a 'profile' of Corbyn soon after his election as Labour leader - it was such an obvious hatchet job I couldn't believe it had been cleared for broadcast.

They have hammered the Labour antisemitism issue endlessly but let Tory islamophobia and antisemitism go by. They have at least twice been caught out editing footage of Johnson to show him in a more positive light.

Yesterday we saw an extremely combative interview of Corbyn by the ridiculously puffed-up Andrew Neil. Apparently Labour were assured by the BBC beforehand that Johnson had also committed to an interview with Neil. Now we hear that they have not got any such commitment and the lying scumbag will almost certainly refuse to turn up.

Their journalistic standards have been fatally corrupted by their desire to suck up to whoever will be in government and make sure the money keeps rolling in for the fat salaries of the top dogs.

what do you mean they don't treat Farage well?? FFS, he gets more fucking time and appearances on Question Time than anyone else! He has made the Joint Highest number of appearances over the last century. bloody hell. They interview him all the time on the news have you been asleep?

YANBU OP and I have actually submitted a complaint to the BBC about BJ.being allowed to duck out of an AN interview until after the postal votes are complete. Whatever you may think about BJ or JC, this is not a level playing field and the job of the BBC is to report accurately and neutrally

@Llott
That used to have a bit of truth to it but not for a long time. While the bulk of programming displays a liberal stance - think abortion, homosexuality, attitudes to drugs, criminal justice etc , the political team led by the likes of Neil and Kuessenberg is centre right without a shadow of a doubt. Take Brexit - going by the BBC voxpops you’d think 80-90% of the country voted for Brexit. Going back a few years there was even an independent study done of the press coverage of the major broadcasters of Jeremy Corbyn. Of course, with the British media having a strong right bias, he was constantly portrayed negatively, but the interesting area was the BBC: Negative coverage outweighed positive coverage by around 2 to 1, one of the worst ratios among all the major broadcasters. Acceptably unacceptable for the public broadcaster, funded by the taxpayer, to treat the leader of her majesty’s opposition with such extreme bias - and nothing has changed since then.

The BBC was traditionally defended more from the Left than the Right, die to the comparative nature of the two ideologies (ie, emphasis on the free market vs public services/more state intervention on the economy). That held through even through the Thatcher years - you could say especially during the Thatcher years. That’s gone now, though. Finished. The bias against a proper left wing Labour Party has reached unacceptable levels.

YA100%NBU. BBC ‘news’ is massively failing. It should be reporting facts and not seeking to influence people’s opinions.

This started when Cameron threatened to remove the licence fee. Theres a revolving door between their top brass and the government. Several editors were Young Conservatives, you have senior people leaving BBC to directly work with the Tories etc. They’re not even attempting to hide their bias anymore.

Nobody listening to John Humpreys giggling away with David Davis would think JH was a left winger.
The photo showing Sarah Sands (Today producer) cozying up to the Conservative bigs wigs doesn't help.
In the past I have always been interested in LK's tweets - now I scroll past her soft soaping of the Conservative policies.

Not all is lost. Katya Adler is always on the money. As is Emily Maitlis. Emma Barnett takes no prisoners.
I liked the AN interview and think all politicians deserve a pummelling. You want my vote - bloody earn it.
Johnson not turning up for an AN interview cements him (if he needed cementing) as running scared and not the great messiah certain members of my family hold him out to be.

Suspect the pressure over the licence fees have a lot to do with BBC coverage.

I agree OP, total anti Corbyn bias. Another reason for me not to buy a TV license.

A slight tangent but I live in the Midlands so Midlands Today is my local news.
Well tbh they should just rename it Birmingham Today. 80 % of the stories covered are about the second city! It makes me mad and I have now stopped watching BBC news altogether .

Find you someone that looks at you the way Laura Kuenssberg looks at Boris Johnson...

@DorisDaysDadsDogsDead oh for heavens sake the intercut shots aren’t even filmed at the same time of day!

Ah, the Tory party Ministry of Truth has arrived.

You're welcome to google the whole clip, but then you'd probably edit it anyway...

Laura K is the worst offender. Being a woman now in her 40s, she'll no doubt soon get canned, or at least moved impercetibly from centre stage, by the BBC, I'm normally livid when this happens but in her case I'll drink a toast to it, her partiality is shameful.

She’s been tweeting against Labour all day today too. It never stops.

I’d love to see the whole clip but doubt Googling “Boris johnson Laura kuenssberg” will get me very far.

BBC uses the London Bridge attack to backtrack and allow Johnson to do the Marr show, rather than face Andrew Neil.

They are utterly SPINELESS.

YANBU - the quality of BBC output has massively deteriorated over the last 5 years.

YABU - I don't see or hear any right-wing bias at all, quite the opposite. Radio 4 has become so politically-correct I rarely listen any more. Too much diversity rubbish being shoved down my throat at every opportunity. BBC News is still overwhelmingly left wing.

And Marr allows politicians to get off lightly in his interviews?

I would like to see him interviewed by both

Hopefully Marr is sufficiently outraged at the idea that he is a softer option than Neil to make him tear Johnson apart.

I want to hear questions about the suppression of the Russia document, failure to deal with racism in the Tory party, lies about their policies, attempts to smear Labour with fake news, the allegations of misconduct in public office. Since this is probably the last time he will be interviewed before the election I want it to really count.

Trouble is, when he chunters on to distract from answering the question there's no way of stopping him other than physically clapping your hand over his gob.

ArseDarkly as I have said before he is shrewd

He will not get and an easy time and Andrew Marr shows far more contempt towards those he is interviewing than Andrew Neil though I prefer to see him interviewed by AN out of the two of them

Laura Kuenssberg is a Tory it’s a well known fact.

I want to hear questions about the suppression of the Russia document, failure to deal with racism in the Tory party, lies about their policies, attempts to smear Labour with fake news, the allegations of misconduct in public office.

Keep hoping. I saw an LBC (little more overall than a Tory political broadcasting station with polite nods to impartiality now and again imo) clip where Nick Ferrari asked his chum Boris about avoiding Andrew Neil.

The smugness, humour and dismissive manner Boris displayed when answering was interesting to me. It came across as someone who is so confident about the ground on which he is standing that he feels no need to be answerable to anyone.

So I fully expect him to feel fully at ease feinting away Marr's far less rigorous style of questions with the same humour filled, pretentiously self-effacing guff.

But we get the politicians we deserve.

Laura k on the BBC may as well have a "I'm backing boris" badge on at all times.

I have no idea who Laura Kuenssberg votes for. Even if she is a Tory she can remain professional likewise with Andrew Neil

Brian Walden was known for being a Thatcher supporter (even though he has been a Labour MP)

His famous last interview with her (and one of her last interviews as PM) certainly was part of her down fall

I used to see criticism from both the left and right which made me feel that they probably were impartial. Now they do seem to be quite pro Johnson.

I heard a lot from them knocking down to "NHS for sale" Corbyn line the other day, and did seem to be at pains to discredit it.

Not a huge Neil fan and it's bad form that they've grilled the others and not BJ. They should be screaming in outrage about it in the same way that CH4 and the Mirror did.

That the Tories are threatening Channel 4’s licence over the ice sculpture is despicable. It’s clearly also meant to act as a threat to the BBC to not try anything similar.

Neil should interview a tub of lard.