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Not invented or misread. The tweet is still there.First you get called out for inventing (or at best misreading)
Not invented or misread. The tweet is still there.First you get called out for inventing (or at best misreading)
I agree they did but unlike the EU they haven't recognised their mistake.Maybe they corrected an error quickly.
Come on QR, you are very quick to compliment the EU when they quickly correct a mistake or reverse a decision, why not the BBC ?
Did you read what I said?
You've missed the context of the thread.Did you read what I said?
I said "inventing (or misreading) conservative bias". Bold font added for emphasis. I'm not saying you invented the headline. I'm saying you invented the allegation of bias.
Come on QR you're quite sharp on the Brexit thread - you've lost your head on this one but you'll be back I'm sure.
Classic Gaslighting!
Last time... This is about how a decision, any decision, of a court is reported. Not the decision itself.
or the contract is awarded without proper scrutiny to one of his mates (sorry his ex-neighbour who apparently isn't his friend...but he put the contract through on the ministerial priority channel for), and that mate's company is now under investigation because of safety concerns in the equipment supplied (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ntract-matt-hancock-alex-bourne-b1805330.html) likely linked to the fact they have never made medical grade equipment before.Those good old EU OJEU "rules"..........
"The opportunity was not advertised, because for example only one supplier is capable of delivering the requirement, or due to extreme urgency brought about by unforeseen events."
Hurrah for the EU......
I don't think they are doing fine, but I also don't think they are inherently biased one way or the other. Their problem is being a political football for politicians who have forced them into such a corner they are afraid of anything not being "balanced" not matter how outrageous the 'balancing' view may be. Giving opinion the same weight as fact in the name of 'balance' is a very rocky bit of ground to be on.I think this all proves the BBC is doing fine, as right leaning people are claiming left bias and left leaning people are claiming right bias.
only a TRUE fan would know that ^^As has been said, when nearly everybody thinks youโre not impartial itโs generally a pretty good sign that you largely are. However, Iโm not sure that being impartial is a good thing if it gets to the point that giving facts and evidence, and presenting the truth based on these things, is classed as having an opinion or agenda.
I remember James OโBrien (shield your eyes, Brexiteers!) saying that he stopped doing presenting gigs on the BBC after the lead up to the referendum. He headed up a โconversationโ between Andrea Leadsom and Pascal Lamy, the former director general of the WTO. Due to the BBC having to remain impartial he had to sporadically back up Leadsom when she told Lamy that the WTO didnโt work the way he said it did, so as not to be seen as being โon his sideโ. Despite the fact Lamy used to run the organisation they were arguing about. I guess that made him an expert, and we had enough of those long ago. Well, until what the experts say is what we want them to say, and then theyโre allowed again.
Thatโs where perceived impartiality is dangerous - someone with absolutely no clue what they were on about had to be given equal billing with somebody who knows the subject matter inside out. The BBC is hamstrung and has been flipped on its head by a tribal world, one which deems facts to be opinions and evidence to be some sort of stitch up, which is partially its own doing because of situations like the above. Then throw in the fact that the government appoints the people who run it because itโs state funded and youโre left with an incredible mess, especially once the idea of government no longer respecting the boundaries of โfair playโ becomes commonplace. As soon as the attitude from No10 changes from, โWe donโt touch that even if itโs telling people weโve been naughtyโ and moves on to being one of, โWe control it so letโs put it in its placeโ, it falls down pretty fast.
All that aside, I still find it more than a little ridiculous seeing certain sections of society angrily demanding its defunding. โWe want 100% of media and all sources of information privately owned by billionaires! This is evil!โ Mind you, given the amount of times Britain has been talked into slashing its own wrists in the last half a decade, itโs probably only a matter of time. I guess this is what happens when something essentially set up and run using the honour system meets the age of dishonesty. It becomes incompatible, and when something is incompatible itโs eventually demonised on its way to the gallows.
Not that I care. My only source of news is Korean Central Broadcasting. All truth, all the time.
Death to the west.
I don't think they are doing fine, but I also don't think they are inherently biased one way or the other. Their problem is being a political football for politicians who have forced them into such a corner they are afraid of anything not being "balanced" not matter how outrageous the 'balancing' view may be. Giving opinion the same weight as fact in the name of 'balance' is a very rocky bit of ground to be on.
or the contract is awarded without proper scrutiny to one of his mates (sorry his ex-neighbour who apparently isn't his friend...but he put the contract through on the ministerial priority channel for), and that mate's company is now under investigation because of safety concerns in the equipment supplied (https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...ntract-matt-hancock-alex-bourne-b1805330.html) likely linked to the fact they have never made medical grade equipment before.
That bloody useful if the buck doesn't stop with the person in charge.That is a failure of the tendering process that should have required MHRA approval for equipment.
By the time it lands on the senior folks desk they would have thought the basics had been done.
The amount of folk who seem to think Cabinet ministers are running round populating portals for tenders and signing them off is amusing for anyone who knows how the system works.
You say that but it's not like my mamma used to make.I used to think the BBC was a reliable source of information until my ex-girlfriend (she was from another country) said she couldn't believe some of the stuff the posted on the BBC website about her country, the people and political situation. She said it was completely inaccurate compared to the views of the majority of the people she knew and that it seemed they had their own agenda. Since then i have changed my opinion on the news and media and what we are fed on a daily basis. There are some decent recipes on there (BBC food) though. The classic carbonara is a winner.
But that is the issue. That process has been over-ridden by the emergency process implemented by the government. The evidence of this process was disclosed in a recent court case (despite previous public denials) and shows that ministerial approval overrode process.That is a failure of the tendering process that should have required MHRA approval for equipment.
By the time it lands on the senior folks desk they would have thought the basics had been done.
The amount of folk who seem to think Cabinet ministers are running round populating portals for tenders and signing them off is amusing for anyone who knows how the system works.
That is a failure of the tendering process that should have required MHRA approval for equipment.
By the time it lands on the senior folks desk they would have thought the basics had been done.
The amount of folk who seem to think Cabinet ministers are running round populating portals for tenders and signing them off is amusing for anyone who knows how the system works.
funny handshake , or old school tie ... or both... more likeWhat tendering process?
This would have been done under the emergency legislation where they don't need to follow tendering rules. All it required would be a phonecall and a bit of a nudge-nudge from his mate.