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QR said:
The point is is shouldn't happen and you've just gone from 'no it didn't' to 'oh yeah it did' but justified it on the back of something that hasn't happened.🤷 All over the place.
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No I haven't, I just find you banging on about the BBC being a mouthpiece for the right utterly boring and completely devoid of any reality, it's slap bang in the middle and we should be grateful for it, I'd take it over what the Yanks are served up in their 'democracy' any day of the week
 
www.bbc.co.uk

Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates

The BBC chair earlier apologises for the "error of judgement" over the documentary and says the BBC is considering how to respond to the US president.
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The BBC front page is still my usual go to for up to date news (out of habit and loyalty I guess) but I’ve felt for some time that there there are certain journalists and some editorial content that is clearly (in my mind at least) left of centre in stance particularly on subjects such as trans issues, Palestine, immigration, grooming gangs and Trump. It’s not as obvious as Channel 4 news or the Guardian but there’s an underlying bias. I take that bias into account when reading their reports as I would do if I should read right of centre new outlets such as Telegraph, GB news etc.
I don’t think it does the BBC any favours and will alienate their core audience even further (over 60s?) , and as someone who has grownup with the BBC it’s sad to see but we are gradually seeing the demise of the BBC and some of it is definitely self induced.
In time the public will simply refuse to pay the licence fee if they can’t trust the BBC to be impartial.

I mourn what the BBC was , not what it has become.
 
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Morris Oxford said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates

The BBC chair earlier apologises for the "error of judgement" over the documentary and says the BBC is considering how to respond to the US president.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk


The BBC front page is still my usual go to for up to date news (out of habit and loyalty I guess) but I’ve felt for some time that there there are certain journalists and some editorial content that is clearly (in my mind at least) left of centre in stance particularly on subjects such as trans issues, Palestine, immigration, grooming gangs and Trump. It’s not as obvious as Channel 4 news but there’s an underlying bias. I take that bias into account when reading their reports as I would do if I should read right of centre new outlets such as Telegraph, GB news etc.
I don’t think it does the BBC any favours and will alienate their core audience even further (over 60s?) , and as someone who has grownup with the BBC it’s sad to see but we are gradually seeing the demise of the BBC and some of it is definitely self induced.
In time the public will simply refuse to pay the licence fee if they can’t trust the BBC to be impartial.

I mourn what the BBC was , not what it has become.
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A significantly high number of people haven't paid their license fee for a long long time, regardless of their declining impartiality. Mostly because so few U30s actually watch TV as opposed to just using streaming platforms. Yes. I know iPlayer is one of those, but it's far behind the big boys.
 
Emilio said:
A significantly high number of people haven't paid their license fee for a long long time, regardless of their declining impartiality. Mostly because so few U30s actually watch TV as opposed to just using streaming platforms. Yes. I know iPlayer is one of those, but it's far behind the big boys.
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Regarding under 30s I’m sure that right.

I suspect the vast majority of those who still pay the licence fee are the over 50s/60s?, and yet this core audience with traditional conservative (with a small ‘c’) views are being alienated by biased left of centre BBC editorial content.

The current BBC is slowly killing what once was a great institution.
 
Morris Oxford said:
www.bbc.co.uk

Trump threatens $1bn legal action against BBC over 6 January speech edit - live updates

The BBC chair earlier apologises for the "error of judgement" over the documentary and says the BBC is considering how to respond to the US president.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk


The BBC front page is still my usual go to for up to date news (out of habit and loyalty I guess) but I’ve felt for some time that there there are certain journalists and some editorial content that is clearly (in my mind at least) left of centre in stance particularly on subjects such as trans issues, Palestine, immigration, grooming gangs and Trump. It’s not as obvious as Channel 4 news or the Guardian but there’s an underlying bias. I take that bias into account when reading their reports as I would do if I should read right of centre new outlets such as Telegraph, GB news etc.
I don’t think it does the BBC any favours and will alienate their core audience even further (over 60s?) , and as someone who has grownup with the BBC it’s sad to see but we are gradually seeing the demise of the BBC and some of it is definitely self induced.
In time the public will simply refuse to pay the licence fee if they can’t trust the BBC to be impartial.

I mourn what the BBC was , not what it has become.
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I will happily admit I refuse to pay my TV license. They have sent me endless letters for the last 2 years saying they will turn up and investigate but as yet, no one has showed up.
 
I don't pay it. Good luck to them getting in my block 😁
 
Something is wrong , what was something which had values and clarity has gone, all the issues that h as ve happens seem to indicate poor management choices, a lot of people seem to earn huge salaries which are unjustifiable in my eyes, equally the news coverage given to reform is completely out of proportion to the number of MP’s in westminister, they should be reporting the news, and less of creating the agenda in the first place
 
Oxford57 said:
Something is wrong , what was something which had values and clarity has gone, all the issues that h as ve happens seem to indicate poor management choices, a lot of people seem to earn huge salaries which are unjustifiable in my eyes, equally the news coverage given to reform is completely out of proportion to the number of MP’s in westminister, they should be reporting the news, and less of creating the agenda in the first place
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This isn't the stick to bash the beeb with.

Reform are the best performing in the polls in the country. They also speak to other parties with very few MPS like the greens.
 
Steve Gilbert said:
I will happily admit I refuse to pay my TV license. They have sent me endless letters for the last 2 years saying they will turn up and investigate but as yet, no one has showed up.
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See, I do pay it, but not because I agree with everything they do, far from it, but I've watched a lot of US news channels and they are wild, they're effectively just broadcast arms for either the Democrat or the Republican parties, it worries me that if we let the BBC move away from public broadcasting, that we will follow that model more closely. That worries me.

If we think the country is polarised now, imagine what it would be like with a whole load of GB News everywhere.
 
I can't be bothered to look into all of this. Can anyone tell me if Trump did or did not incite the riot?
 
The BBC get criticism as much from the left (me included 😁) as it does from the right, so it probably walking the impossible and impossibly fine line of balance pretty well (he begrudgingly says) and certainly better than any other news/media outlet.
unification said:
Why did the BBC feel the need to edit the footage of Trump inciting a riot by making it (ahem) sound like he was inciting a riot?
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I've said this before but the BBC didn't. It was the output of a private company that was commissioned by the BBC. It is probably that the BBC should have spotted this deception and this is what they should be being challenged/criticised for.
 
smiler106 said:
I can't be bothered to look into all of this. Can anyone tell me if Trump did or did not incite the riot?
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That’s an extremely difficult question to answer succinctly, and naturally there are differing views across the political spectrum. This article dating from January 2024, which I’ve just come across, might be a useful read.
www.snopes.com

Did Trump Tell Supporters to Storm the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021?

On the attack's third anniversary, here's a look at the former president's speech to supporters in the moments they breached Capitol security.
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