Let’s talk about BBC
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Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
As a non-subscriber to the BBC (broadly because I consume none of their content so choose not to pay for it, although there are other, albeit lesser reasons), I feel something of an uninvolved observer. It's fascinating as someone on the Left, who sees the BBC as an entrenchedly (is that a word?) right-wing establishment mouthpiece, watching it being stitched up for being precisely what it's not, in what is blatantly the final stage of a long & very carefully orchestrated frame job.
The edit to Trump's speech was a catastrophically stupid & inexplicable decision, and if you've seen the full clip, what he actually said - and the BBC chose not to transmit - is arguably even more damning.
I found this article a good overview of the way the BBC has changed & modified its news/current affairs coverage over recent years, and laid itself open to an attack such as this. I'm not a fan, but the way all this is likely to change the corporation - or inform whatever replaces it if it collapses - is somewhat concerning. Unless you're a fascist and/or fanboy of corrupt billionaires.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-beeb-bleeds-the-telegraph-cheers
The edit to Trump's speech was a catastrophically stupid & inexplicable decision, and if you've seen the full clip, what he actually said - and the BBC chose not to transmit - is arguably even more damning.
I found this article a good overview of the way the BBC has changed & modified its news/current affairs coverage over recent years, and laid itself open to an attack such as this. I'm not a fan, but the way all this is likely to change the corporation - or inform whatever replaces it if it collapses - is somewhat concerning. Unless you're a fascist and/or fanboy of corrupt billionaires.
https://www.bearlypolitics.co.uk/p/the-beeb-bleeds-the-telegraph-cheers
Bromptonaut
Rohan Man
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Fact: Trump undoubtedly raised the temperature both on 6 Jan and before.
CXRAndy
Shaman
Fact- The media creates a false narrative, which they ran with.
icowden
Shaman
Really? You don't watch anything the BBC produces, listen to BBC radio or use the BBC News website?
The Govt installed a Tory Stooge and now the ex-govt seem to be complaining that he wasn't right wing enough to support Trump. The facts of the matter are that the BBC made it look like Trump was encouraging a coup or insurrection when what he actually did was to encourage a coup or insurrection.
The moron is now trying to sue the BBC for $1bn. I wish Starmer would just grow a pair, tell him to fark off and that he has no jurisdiction here so he can stick it up his orange hole.
Pross
Senior Member
Had to do some rare daytime driving and had the radio on. The BBC are struggled by between their two default modes of self-flagellation about the Trump stuff (5 Live) and constant self-congratulation bigging up Sara Cox’s Children In Need challenge on Radio 2 with loads of the worst addition to radio in my lifetime (listener’s voice notes).
Wish I’d remembered to connect my phone to play some music.
Wish I’d remembered to connect my phone to play some music.
C R
Guru
Facts have an extreme left bias.
Psamathe
Guru
BBC could have avoid this legal case if they'd only nominated Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize. Trouble is he's such a delicate little flower he can't take anything other than perpetual admiration and praise and anybody not continually feeding that to him gets sued.
But if every untruth or misleading statement from the lips of Trump resulted in him being sued for US$1bn he'd be broke (again) in days. Maybe all the different manufacturers of Paracetamol should be suing Trump & Kennedy for their defamatory unfounded smear campaign against their product ...
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Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
I still have the BBC weather page as a bookmark on my phone. It's very frequently inaccurate so I don't really think an annual subscription of £174.50 is offering particularly good value for money, tbh.
To break it down, we haven't had linear TV for about 5 years & when we worked out literally the only things we ever watched on iPlayer were HIGNFY & Doctor Who - and Eurovision once a year - cancelling the sort-of-compulsory sub was a no-brainer. Binned it off a year ago & I haven't watched any BBC content since.
I barely listen to any radio programming & it wouldn't be the BBC if I did.
secretsqirrel
Well-Known Member
So you don’t receive live broadcasts from any channel?
First Aspect
Veteran
I sense you don't watch the news either.
AuroraSaab
Pharaoh
If GB News had edited a speech from, say, Corbyn, tacking a sentence from the beginning onto to a sentence from 50 minutes later, would anybody think it was a minor editing error?
secretsqirrel
Well-Known Member
Not really. Its what I would expect from GBn.
Xipe Totec
Something nasty in the woodshed
No. As I said, we don't receive linear TV.
You don't need to 'sense' it - I don't.
There are other ways of staying informed. Just wait 'til you find out about this wild & crazy new thing called The Internet!
