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I'm not so sure about middle-class or left-wing - probably more 'progressive' than left-wing, but there is plenty of right-wing and conservative views expressed as well.
What is 'progressive'? I think that, like 'fairness' and 'social justice', it is an ephemeral term which means nothing beyond what you want it to mean this week.
It's usually conservatives who have a problem with the term 'progressive'. Most other people use it quite happily. It's usually taken to mean promoting fairness, a just society, democracy and accountability, and the promotion of the well-being of everybody in society, not just the privileged few.
No, I don't think it's such a blank and meaningless term that anyone can use it to mean anything. Conservatives don't call their ideas progressives for two reasons:
a) They normally seek to conserve the status quo
b) They are normally OK with wealth and power inequality.
There are conservative views expressed at the BBC. But there are no socially conservative views. Now in your view the direct imposition of Guardian values on the population may be a good thing, or it may not, but it is still the imposition of a set of values.
It's really not an imposition. If by conservative views you mean bigoted views, then the BBC can't broadcast that because they're supposed to be owned by the public. Therefore, they're accountable to the public - all the public - including gay people, poor people, ethinic and other minorities.
If you want to complain about things like climate change and homosexuality, it indicates to me that you're just out of step with the 21st Century. You do agree with women's suffrage, right?
Haha, very good. Clearly if I'm pointing out that the BBC has a clear bias in favour of a particular viewpoint, I'm a cragged old misogynist, because it's easier to demonise me than to accept that the BBC has a clear bias.
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Since you've picked out those two examples, I'm making the point that the BBC's line is "homosexuality is great and normal", which is at odds with the teaching of the Christian and Muslim and Jewish faiths, although it is a central tenet of left-wing 'faith'. The majority of the country still identify themselves with one of those religions. And the BBC's line is "climate change is all definitely caused by humans", which remains a point of scientific debate although the 'green' movement deny any scientific doubt.
And I was absolutely right. You are out of step with 21st Century opinion. The BBC doesn't promote 'homosexuality is great and normal', although it homosexuality is perfectly normal. It doesn't, however, treat homosexuality as abberant or something to be condemned. It doesn't do this because a) that would be ignorant and hateful and b) it is owned by the public, and therefore accountable to the public, who are comprised of 10% homosexuals (at least).
Climate change is also accepted by the vast majority of the scientific community to be man-made, in the same way that their is a consensus that species evolve through the process of evolution.
Faith of all kinds is represented on the BBC, including documentaries about different faiths, as well as historical documentaries, and even Sunday prayers.
The BBC won't promote Creationism as a science (rather than faith) because it has no scientific validity.
Now I'm unclear why that makes me a woman-hater. I'm an atheist, but I recognise that other people have different views to me, even if I think they're wrong.
Good for you. I joked about you being against women's suffrage because your beliefs appear outdated. It looks like I was justified.
In any case, you'll have no problem finding other views besides those with a 'progressive, metropolitan' bias either on the BBC, or the dozens of other channels on TV. If you want to go full reactionary, you can even watch Fox news and live in your own reality, completely devoid of facts.
My problem here is that the BBC has a clear bias, and that people deny that it has. Admitting that there's a bias doesn't mean condemning it.
It has bias in a way that it should: It represents and respects the views of the public, including minorities and people of different faiths. It also doesn't broadcast ideas as science which have no scientific validity.