What actually happened VS what the BBC aired. Tell me again how the BBC is unbiased? Why have they cut that out? @siobhni @scottygb

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  1. Jaysus it’s terrible, probably.

    And the effects will be far reaching, presumably.

    Still, doesn’t do to worry about it.

  12. Half the people in montrose aren’t from Dublin, so unfair to tarnish with that brush.

    I once worked in a TV company who produced shite tv for rté, the amount of young wans and young fellas from all over the country who’d arrive into my office with various accents and off they’d trot over to montrose but within a week all speaking with a d4 accent so misleading to think all those with that accent are actually from Dublin.

  13. I remember not so long ago they had that Lineker scandal where it was obvious that a fairly mild voice was being silenced for mild dissent against the government.

    Then they went apeshit cause twitter accurately described them as government funded and despite all the Lineker fallout they insisted they were absolutely independent.

    What would it look like if they weren’t independent and if it’s no different than now why the fuck did they go apeshit against twitter?

  16. Presumably every award winner rambles on for ages and there’s a whole lot of editing for broadcasting. I can’t imagine it was the only speech that was edited. Also, why would the BBC possibly not want to show that from a political perspective – they literally cover it every day on their news.

  23. People are defending the BBC saying that they maintain that anything they air cannot be political. Clearly what’s considered “political” is dependant on their interpretation.

  25. It’s not clear that this is what aired on TV, the author of the twitter post says in a reply:

    >For clarity. One is the BAFTA YouTube channel which isn’t BBC affiliated, the other is the BBC edit that they broadcast and put on iPlayer.

    See:

    https://preview.redd.it/09i905be920b1.png?width=1178&format=png&auto=webp&v=enabled&s=4511dbe796c86569ba31ce2f371da4e7fa345804

    [https://twitter.com/OhHeyJacob/status/1657952267486613504](https://twitter.com/OhHeyJacob/status/1657952267486613504)

  29. While I don’t condone censoring why the fk is she even bothering making a political statement like that?

    She could’ve stopped at the point where she thanked Derry people but alas…I just don’t get the point of it all. Accept the award and move on with your life is that mad of me to think?

  30. I would put my life on that they cut it because of the election broadcasting laws and nothing else. The bbc has many faults but let’s not start making ones up

  32. As an Irish person who lived in the UK briefly… This is hugely disappointing and will forever change how I view BBC coverage.

  33. Hamstrung organisation under the constant threat of defunding by the tories, afraid to let the proletariat speak their minds as it could cause some upset to the tories who will take away tv license funding and obliterating them out of existence. They were a leading voice of left dissent but Maggie started the ball rolling when they were not “impartial” against miner strikes, Brixton riots, Hillsborough, Birmingham 6, Guildford 4 etc. now have become irrelevant like RTE. Funding model has to change before all public trust is lost

  35. It’s definitely a bad look but they literally cut a third of the show down with most speeches being cut in half or more exactly like this speech. There’s nothing to support any evidence of the BBC being malicious or trying to sensor speech.

  38. They cut out both Westminster and Dublin.

    That was unbiased, lol.

    Do you want political statements on eurovision constantly, or isn’t it about that maybe? Or is this outrage just bias? Lol.

  39. To be fair who the fuck- these days- would seriously claim or believe the BBC to be unbiased & neutral? I think even they themselves have dropped that claim (or are being remarkably quiet about it) since becoming the unabashed mouthpiece of a hard right wing government. As soon as I noticed Boris Johnson bend over to do a line and could *just* see the tips of Laura Keunnsbergs shoes shticking out his arse I knew it’d finally crossed over into postmodern dystopian state broadcaster territory.

  41. Sure didn’t the Chairman of the BBC arrange a 800k loan for Boris ? It’s clearly biased. Especially against China. I’m no fan of China but BBC seem to be hellbent on only ever reporting the negative bad stuff though. RTE for all its faults does try and remain impartial as much as possible. But yes when the government (ie taxpayer) funds the broadcaster it cannot be truly impartial. The BBC tried this by having a trust structure in place but clearly that’s not working. Siobhan McSweeney is dead right too. Plus she’s committed to C4 programming so I don’t think she cares much about BBC.

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