Donald Trump BBC

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If Donald Trump gets compensation from the BBC to the tune of a million, which might affect our license fee payments, would it be appropriate to stop buying goods from US for a while. I think the BBC were wrong to misrepresent what Trump said, but effectively suing the population as a retaliation seems a step too far.

I couldn’t agree more. I don’t pay a licence fee either (like millions of others living in the UK). I suspect a sizeable % of licence fee payers pay it reluctantly too and barely engage with BBC content . Viewing Trump suing the BBC as retaliating against the UK population is a novel perspective.

I don’t blame him as it was appalling how it was edited. It’s the big greedy fat cats will have to lose their salaries and whoever okayed they edit should be fired.

It’s supposed to be an unbiased company so to do what they did pisses all over that concept. We only know because they were found out so what else have the doctored to suit their narratives

Ah, the BBC. Unravelling before our very eyes. No fan of Trump, but along with their buddies CNN, took out the word 'peacefully' and rejigged what he said.

Don't get me started on BBC Verify...

But do I want the concept of an impartial, free and fair news broadcaster to be torpedoed in this day and age.

It’s not free - any household which owns a tv must pay for a licence.

I pay it reluctantly because I watch and record live tv on Sky Q, I don't watch hardly any BBC so could easily not use the BBC part.

He isnt suing for a million. He is suing for 1 -5 BILLION. It is completely outragous and would csuse setious economic damage to the wider UK economy.
The Daily Mail readers / Reform voters celebrating this are deluded.

It's not statesmanlike.behaviour. Nothing in his behaviour, his bag of tricks, is appropriate . We shouldnt pander to it. He has a crush on being king I reckon. I bet he fantasises about living in Buck House. I find the idea he likes UK ridiculous because everything we stand for, he despises. So what exactly is it he thinks he likes about us. Its probably the narcissist's schoolboy fantasy of being in in a country with a monarch. The idea of subjects bowing in reverance. Mad.

5 billion. It’s a capitalist takeover mark my words

The BBC should be better at watching out for institutionalised bias, it could help itself on this.

The BBC just needs to come out and tell people on the right politically to go get stuffed. To hell with so called ‘impartiality’, there is nothing to be impartial about with regard to what is right and wrong in the world.

People like Trump and Farage need to be deplatformed from mainstream news organisations, enough is enough.

The annual income from the licence fee was 3.8 billion last year for context

I hope he gets it and the BBC has to move to a pay per view. If soft heads want to buy the news arm of it, let them. The vast majority won't and it will sink...let them verify that, the twats.

He’s definitely no a statesman in the traditional sense of being polished and eloquent. But I’m not sure why that’s relevant. Nor do I think anyone is pandering to him. He has a case in tort law and as much right as anyone to pursue it.

Incidentally, the president in the US constitution is pretty much identical to a constitutional monarch. Just elected and given a different name. Anglo Saxon monarchs were elected by the Witan anyway. The American system attracts narcissists to the presidency. They don’t have to ride through the party, starting with leafleting a constituency where they don’t have a hope of winning a seat, then sitting in the back benches, accepting the party whip against their better judgement and gradually being morphed into a ‘suitable’ candidate for PM. When they get there, they find it’s unglamorous, as the glamour is outsourced to a ceremonial monarch.
I’ve no idea what he likes about Britain, but I’d imagine it’s simply fondness for his mother transferred to her homeland.

I think it means ‘free’ as in, not beholden to any group or particular stakeholder.

Suing for 1 to 5 billion, wow! That would be money we could use to stop Putin invading Europe, surely. What happened to that, by the way? Come on BBC Verify, tell us again why we need to spend billions to protect our borders against a supposed threat that would never happen in a million years. You were scaring the c**p out of us, now very little. Busy verifying other things? What happened to Mr Z, by the way?

I think it means ‘free’ as in, not beholden to any group or particular stakeholder.

Sorry, yes, i misunderstood.

You could cancel your licence if it goes up to more than you want to pay. But anyway Sir Keir is going to have a word so it will be ok

Oh ffs, so you want the president of the US to reign over our media and teach them a lesson? Public service broadcasting to be given a whipping to teach them sort of lesson? This isn’t just about panorama and anyone who thinks that is naive.
Oh look, a squirrel…

I'm no fan of the BBC but Trump absolutely will not a get a penny out of them, as anyone who has any idea of the actual law will know.

He's just doing what he always does, flailing around like a fucking baby and making himself look even more like a cunt than he already does, if that is even possible.

That's because daily mail readers and reform voters are, as a rule, not very bright.

Certainly not a Trump fan here but he’s quite right to sue them for lying about him.

Wouldn't it make more sense to stop paying your licence fee, given that the BBC did the lie and refused to correct it and therefore created this mess, than not buy US goods, given that US companies have got nothing to do with Trump's litigation?

The BBC makes billions every year from its commercial operations (BBC Studios). It sells old shows across the world all the time. It owns the U channels in the UK which generate millions from advertising. It gets millions from Britbox.

The BBC can afford being sued - and it's already now ready for the licence fee to be scrapped.

Let's just get on and scrap the bloody thing

Will anybody throw the book at the BBC for their complicity in the government’s campaign of fear in 2020 (which probably broke some advertising and communications rules), and for their lies about the size of the anti-lockdown protest? “A couple of hundred conspiracy theorists on speakers corner”. It was easily hundreds of thousands of people. I was there myself.

The BBC are supposed to be impartial and have no-one to blame apart from themselves! They shouldn’t be putting licence payers money at risk. Best result will be scrapping the fee and making it commercial