Right wing crazies funded by extremist billionaires in the US are the go to talking head on the BBC now without giving any context, eg this person is not independent and is paid for by the Koch brothers or the Mercer family who are determined to get the UK economy and society to mirror the US.
Sharp was put in charge for exactly this reason. It’s come as no surprise to anyone who was paying attention at the time.
The Tories are corrupt. We need this to be constantly pushed to the electorate. Otherwise we’re going to end up with another Tory government at the next election. Regardless of what the polls currently say.
There was a good video from George Monbiot posted yesterday on this. Think-tank lobbyists running everything.
The BBC have this problem of false balance – that if someone comes on advocating a certain viewpoint A, they have to also put someone else on with the opposite view B, even if A is overwhelmingly backed by solid expertise.
The worst examples have been regarding climate science and health.
Edit: and Brexit. Very much ‘and Brexit’.
if only the left-wing press had pushed for a Corbyn victory rather than running with the Jew-hating terrorist attack line and helping to usher in the most hard-right Tory government in living memory, eh Guardian?
But the majority of conservatives and right-wingers despise the BBC and see it as incredibly left-leaning. They’re always banging on about the bbc being ‘woke’.
The ERG has an idea, writes it down, and Truss reads it to parliament verbatim.
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That’s rich. Coming from the outlet that just *loves* to talk about how publishing multiple transphobic pieces containing straight up lies on a weekly basis is “middle of the road”. Because apparently “gender-critical” women are the ones being silenced despite being the only people ever allowed to speak.
This is exactly what the Murdoch backed right wing government of the last 10 years did in Australia to our national broadcaster, the ABC. Even with a change of government it is still loaded with Tory party culture warriors trying to destroy it from within.
And those on the right still have the nerve to suggest the BBC is a left wing mouthpiece.
The BBC who manipulated the audio of Boris Johnson in a public space to reduce the sounds of booing and the BBC who did not run a meaningful piece of the massively attended cost of living protests *at all* (while giving us blow by blow live updates on the Tory conference), that is.
BBC are pussies, just people pleasers. People in this country need to grow some backbone and actually have their own opinions and not just copy what everyone else thinks
I cut the bbc out of my life in the early 2000s because of their biased reporting. No live tv. No licence. Never once have regretted it.
That would actually be “The Russians” who have been funding extremism across Europe and in the US. They are winning a propaganda war by destabilizing the west while they lose a ground war in Ukraine. They weaponized Facebook and other social media to radicalize the right. It’s been obvious for years now. They were Brexit, they were Trump, they were the UKIP and now they have the Tory right.
They didn’t capture the BBC, they were gifted it.
And it already served on behalf of the government and capital anyway.
The BBC news rolodex is a ‘think tanker’ followed by somebody with a Title and that’s how authority is displayed now. There’s only lobbyists and lairds.
The Beeb has blood on its hands with Brexit no doubt about that.
Kuensberg was a cog in the Tory agenda.
They failed to deliver broader scope of what was happening unlike say Channel 4 they were a brighter bunch about the implications and realities of leaving the Union
It’s funny how Tories blame the media for being too left wing even though the majority of the media is right wing
Working in a right wing think-tank must be the easiest job ever.
> At one point, the BBC said it wasn’t necessary to tell the audience that an MP arguing against climate action was the director of an oil company, on the grounds that he had declared this interest elsewhere. Soon afterwards it claimed that when giving the head of the IEA a platform to argue against new tobacco regulation, it wasn’t necessary to state that his organisation has been funded by tobacco companies, on the grounds that the IEA had not declared this interest.
I love the BBC, it is a valuable national institution, and would be ruined by a subscription funding model.
But, Jesus, their news and current affairs coverage is a joke.
Next your tell me they ARE rying to sell public services and Corbyn WAS NOT a nazi or a terrorist sympathiser, come off it ya swivel eyes loons /s
Interestingly I listen to BBC radio five live and they are absolutely going hard on the governments failings.
Hardly captured I’d say.
Paranoid bollocks. The fact that you hear exactly the same complaints from the right wing about the BBC being captured by the left should tell you something.
It’s honestly shameful that the BBC even still attempt to view themselves as non bias when a lot of their articles are clearly coming from a right wing viewpoint.
At this point they need to scrap the TV license and start to run adverts as the UK public should not be paying for this crap.
Capture the BBC?
It still tilts overwhelmingly left.
Whereas George Monbiot is *impartial*? This is like the *Mail* slamming the BBC for bias
Unless you’re running a phone-in, anyone you book to speak on a topic will be affiliated to some organisation, even if that’s only a university, and promoting some kind of agenda, even if that’s only advancing their career or selling a book
As Monbiot did just a few weeks ago, when he appeared on *Start the Week* (Monbiot’s a regular guest on BBC shows, speaking on environmental issues)
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Right wing crazies funded by extremist billionaires in the US are the go to talking head on the BBC now without giving any context, eg this person is not independent and is paid for by the Koch brothers or the Mercer family who are determined to get the UK economy and society to mirror the US.
Sharp was put in charge for exactly this reason. It’s come as no surprise to anyone who was paying attention at the time.
The Tories are corrupt. We need this to be constantly pushed to the electorate. Otherwise we’re going to end up with another Tory government at the next election. Regardless of what the polls currently say.
There was a good video from George Monbiot posted yesterday on this. Think-tank lobbyists running everything.
The BBC have this problem of false balance – that if someone comes on advocating a certain viewpoint A, they have to also put someone else on with the opposite view B, even if A is overwhelmingly backed by solid expertise.
The worst examples have been regarding climate science and health.
Edit: and Brexit. Very much ‘and Brexit’.
if only the left-wing press had pushed for a Corbyn victory rather than running with the Jew-hating terrorist attack line and helping to usher in the most hard-right Tory government in living memory, eh Guardian?
But the majority of conservatives and right-wingers despise the BBC and see it as incredibly left-leaning. They’re always banging on about the bbc being ‘woke’.
The ERG has an idea, writes it down, and Truss reads it to parliament verbatim.
I
That’s rich. Coming from the outlet that just *loves* to talk about how publishing multiple transphobic pieces containing straight up lies on a weekly basis is “middle of the road”. Because apparently “gender-critical” women are the ones being silenced despite being the only people ever allowed to speak.
This is exactly what the Murdoch backed right wing government of the last 10 years did in Australia to our national broadcaster, the ABC. Even with a change of government it is still loaded with Tory party culture warriors trying to destroy it from within.
And those on the right still have the nerve to suggest the BBC is a left wing mouthpiece.
The BBC who manipulated the audio of Boris Johnson in a public space to reduce the sounds of booing and the BBC who did not run a meaningful piece of the massively attended cost of living protests *at all* (while giving us blow by blow live updates on the Tory conference), that is.
BBC are pussies, just people pleasers. People in this country need to grow some backbone and actually have their own opinions and not just copy what everyone else thinks
I cut the bbc out of my life in the early 2000s because of their biased reporting. No live tv. No licence. Never once have regretted it.
That would actually be “The Russians” who have been funding extremism across Europe and in the US. They are winning a propaganda war by destabilizing the west while they lose a ground war in Ukraine. They weaponized Facebook and other social media to radicalize the right. It’s been obvious for years now. They were Brexit, they were Trump, they were the UKIP and now they have the Tory right.
They didn’t capture the BBC, they were gifted it.
And it already served on behalf of the government and capital anyway.
The BBC news rolodex is a ‘think tanker’ followed by somebody with a Title and that’s how authority is displayed now. There’s only lobbyists and lairds.
The Beeb has blood on its hands with Brexit no doubt about that.
Kuensberg was a cog in the Tory agenda.
They failed to deliver broader scope of what was happening unlike say Channel 4 they were a brighter bunch about the implications and realities of leaving the Union
It’s funny how Tories blame the media for being too left wing even though the majority of the media is right wing
Working in a right wing think-tank must be the easiest job ever.
> At one point, the BBC said it wasn’t necessary to tell the audience that an MP arguing against climate action was the director of an oil company, on the grounds that he had declared this interest elsewhere. Soon afterwards it claimed that when giving the head of the IEA a platform to argue against new tobacco regulation, it wasn’t necessary to state that his organisation has been funded by tobacco companies, on the grounds that the IEA had not declared this interest.
I love the BBC, it is a valuable national institution, and would be ruined by a subscription funding model.
But, Jesus, their news and current affairs coverage is a joke.
Next your tell me they ARE rying to sell public services and Corbyn WAS NOT a nazi or a terrorist sympathiser, come off it ya swivel eyes loons /s
Interestingly I listen to BBC radio five live and they are absolutely going hard on the governments failings.
Hardly captured I’d say.
Paranoid bollocks. The fact that you hear exactly the same complaints from the right wing about the BBC being captured by the left should tell you something.
It’s honestly shameful that the BBC even still attempt to view themselves as non bias when a lot of their articles are clearly coming from a right wing viewpoint.
At this point they need to scrap the TV license and start to run adverts as the UK public should not be paying for this crap.
Capture the BBC?
It still tilts overwhelmingly left.
Whereas George Monbiot is *impartial*? This is like the *Mail* slamming the BBC for bias
Unless you’re running a phone-in, anyone you book to speak on a topic will be affiliated to some organisation, even if that’s only a university, and promoting some kind of agenda, even if that’s only advancing their career or selling a book
As Monbiot did just a few weeks ago, when he appeared on *Start the Week* (Monbiot’s a regular guest on BBC shows, speaking on environmental issues)
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00180bs
True.
And the rightwing thinktank constantly churns out raw insanity.