Ed Davey accuses BBC of ‘copying Reform press releases’ and urges broadcaster to expose Nigel Farage

https://www.lbc.co.uk/article/ed-davey-bbc-reform-nigel-farage-5HjdDJT_2/

by F0urLeafCl0ver

15 comments

  1. Most “news” outlets just reprint press releases. That includes the bbc.

    Ed Davey relies on the same thing to get his talking points out there.

    It’s not the BBC’s job to expose farage, in fact I don’t think there is anything to expose: he’s a liar and a fraud and everyone knows that and (last I checked the polls) about 30% of voters think he is the least bad candidate…

  2. I’m not sure what more the media can do. 

    People are sick of the status quo and, the media (being the status quo) condemning someone didn’t stop Trump. Seems to have helped him.

    Seems like the way to stop Reform is to listen to voters and then write policies to achieve those goals. 

    If your political party can’t beat disorganised Russian puppets spreading nonsense then maybe the issue isn’t Reform…

  3. Without a doubt the BBC is partly to blame for the increased anti immigration rhetoric that has arisen over the last few years. Yes, they should have a balanced view and offer different takes on things, but they’ve given Reform a platform that has massively outweighed their handful of MPs and helped to build their popularity. They don’t scrutinise anything they say, so they can offer solutions to problems without having to provide costings or impacts, whereas the government can’t offer anything without having to cover every single angle.

  4. I’ve had to stop listening to Nicky Campbell on BBC Five Live as seemingly every morning discussion is about Reform.

  5. He’s right, as much as I love the BBC, the news division has been severely compromised since the Cameron era. The current political darling of the BBC News Laura Kuenssberg has gone from going soft on the Tories to going soft on Reform.

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  6. Žižek pointed out that the more the establishment media attacked Trump, the more popular he became, as it made him appear to voters as an anti-establishment candidate (which, of course, he wasn’t, but it supported the narrative). Farage benefits from the same phenomenon: the more the liberal establishment media attacks him, the more credibility he gains.

  7. The smaller parties should be all submitting complaints to the BBC about the amount of coverage Reform is getting. For example the Greens have a similar number of MPs, yet you barely hear anything about them in the news

  8. I wish he would just stop his stunts. He’s a buffoon and no one I know thinks he’s funny.

  9. Anyone still paying the tv licence is complicit in reform promotion

  10. Ed your useless and your little stunts are not funny at all

  11. I used to listen to R4 on the drive into work, but since it has become the Nigel Farage fan club station, I prefer silence. 

  12. Thing is, while that’s absolutely correct (and the reason why I generally watch Channel 4 News and Newsnight on the BBC ), most of my acquaintances still view everything output by the BBC as left wing.

  14. The way Chris Mason tried to suggest Ed comparing the BBC’s coverage to Trump shutting down Kimmel was pathetic.

  15. It’s nice to actually hear Davey getting any pressure at all really. Granted it’s proving his point as it’s only when he’s talking about Nigel but still. The third largest party in England shouldn’t be so hard to hear about. 

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