Disgusted by BBC news.

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threebikesmcginty

Corn Fed Hick...
Location
...on the slake
Sure you're not in Tunbridge Wells?

It'd look like this if he was.

I shall never watch bbc news again. A French national was beheaded today and the BBC reported it in less than 5 seconds. If it had been American, it would have been headline and a long report on it. The BBC also keeps reporting the air strikes by America, forgetting completely that France is also involved in air strikes. I firmly think now that the BBC is heavily biased towards the USA and disregards other countries. I shall watch ITV news from now on and hope it will better balanced.
 

swee'pea99

Squire
Many years ago now I received an email at my ITV employee account stating that every main national news programme would include a celebrity piece.
You remind me of when I worked at Amateur Photographer and we had a meeting to announce an exciting redesign. After a rundown of the changes that were to be introduced, we were informed (somewhat sheepishly, it has to be said) that we would be maintaining our policy of at least one 'glamour' feature per edition. Imagine our surprise!
 

JtB

Prepare a way for the Lord
Location
North Hampshire
Remenber years ago there was a Columbian air disatster and the BBC covered the story in a matter of seconds before returning to the main event of the day which was a fishbone lodged in the queen mum's throat. Maybe the BBC are insular because that's how the majority of the British public are.
 

rich p

ridiculous old lush
Location
Brighton
It doesn't do to get your knickers in a twist about it. There's an inbuilt bias in almost all reporting, almost all newspaper stories and almost all personal opinions.
If you're clever and perspicacious enough to be 'disgusted' by it, then you're probably clever enough to read between the lines which is what most intelligent people do.
 

Brains

Legendary Member
Location
Greenwich
As a classic example of BBC bias, you should check out the coverage of the two largest public demonstrations in the UK ever.
Both involved circa 1 million people, that is 2% of the entire population actually turning up to demonstrate, which would imply the majority of the people are behind them.
Both had minimal coverage on the news of the day and were deliberately suppressed as they did not suit the government thinking of the moment.

The two demos ? No involvement in Iraq and no banning of hunting.
 

Brahan

Über Member
Location
West Sussex
I like the BBC. If you think it is bad watch Fox.

In particular I think the Beeb did a balanced, fair and truthful job in reporting the recent Independence vote. I was quite upset with the accusations of bias that was thrown at it.

Hah. Right?
 

thom

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Location
The Borough
Stopped watching BBC news a long time ago. I get more intelligent news coverage from Al Jazeera.
Who funnily enough model much of their journalistic values on those of the BBC - not sure if they have a charter but when it was set up they took the lead from the BBC. This perhaps show how divergent implementations can be but also that smaller organisations are perhaps more agile and focused.
 

thom

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Location
The Borough
I'm fairly sure that the BBC and Westminster/the Establishment are very closely linked and what gets reported is determined not by a BBC editor but by what that BBC editor is told to report. No longer a public broadcaster but the state broadcaster.
My partner works in BBC current affairs TV journalism and has been an active Union rep over the years.
The impression I get is there is a massive variety of views amongst BBC journalists.
The notion that a conscious centralised controlling editorial policy could exist at the BBC is implausible. BBC journalists have a variety of motivations and a good capacity to express themselves or their story should they believe things are wrong.
That is how the Saville story got to ITV for example.

Edit : something to be careful of as well is the BBC has definitely screwed things up recently, Saville being the most glaring example. IT project over spend, costly relocations out of London, etc. etc. This does make it very vulnerable to criticism. With charter renewal issues around the corner and a semi-Tory government, there's a real possibility for some damage to be done to the high quality programming that they do produce. It's worth thinking about that.
Due to funding constraints, Tony Hall apparently is about to send out a larger proportion of programming to the private sector. Its about trying to save money but I suspect it will end up with lower quality.
 
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The notion that a conscious centralised controlling editorial policy could exist at the BBC is implausible. BBC journalists have a variety of motivations and a good capacity to express themselves or their story should they believe things are wrong.

Maybe they just dinnae realise when it is wrong, if their views mirror those of the Establishment on certain matters:
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thom

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Location
The Borough
Maybe they just dinnae realise when it is wrong, if their views mirror those of the Establishment on certain matters:
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I think many would feel that the recent coverage of Palestine was screwed up too, as witnessed by largely unreported upon protests that necessitated significant police presence (not that Scotland ought to identify with the Palestinians - see Irish Nationalists). They likely lost a good part of the population over that.
 
I think many would feel that the recent coverage of Palestine was screwed up too, as witnessed by largely unreported upon protests that necessitated significant police presence (not that Scotland ought to identify with the Palestinians - see Irish Nationalists). They likely lost a good part of the population over that.

There are so many poorly (un)reported matters that one might suggest your post which I responded to was wildly inaccurate.
 
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