The BBC

Pretty sure it's mostly Channel 4 running the anti-Polish stuff. But it is tricky spotting the difference between Panorama and the Völkischer Beobachter most weeks.

EXCLUSIVE: Max Mosley confirmed as new Panorama presenter.

A step too far, this is causing as much kerfuffle as when the moved women's hour.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/theeditors/2009/06/change_to_international_pages.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jul/14/ben-bradshaw-bbc-management

the bbc does seem amazingly inept at covering its arse. it is kind of a symptom of a wider elite-class self-aggrandizement that the likes of byford and thompson think they deserve mad money, but it's still going to come back to bite them.

beeb has kind of an impossible job in dealing with its critics, since they simultaneously claim the licence fee isn't justified because the bbc isn't populist enough and that it isn't justified because it doesn't provide enough specialised content that the commercial sector won't touch. i can't see that sharing the licence fee does anything to help except spreading it thinner.

agree that bbc bosses don't help the cause though.

is it really going to be dismantled?
― D Aziz (esquire1983), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 00:03 (5 years ago)

Possibly, if - when - the Tories get in.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/oct/19/wed-abolish-bbc-trust-hunt

Has to be a troll:

Pay per view BBC news would allow the lefties to view their own biased news reports while the rest of us could choose ITV news for more impartial reporting.

this business about "damaging commercial competitors" really pisses me off. we should be celebrating the fact that the BBC creates quality products and services for "free", not requiring it to dumb down its offerings so that something inferior and expensive can maintain market share.

Whenever that comment is made, it is usually voiced by someone with vested interests eg. Murdoch. In America, Murdoch goes after Obama but here he goes after impartial news media. This should be a good compass for anyone wishing to locate the centre of power in any given country. Who does Murdoch go after in, say, China?

yeah, you do wonder whether this is the quid for the quo of The Sun's support.

tories don't need any outside encouragement to go after the bbc, tbh.

So is the Mail anti-Beeb purely because of DMGT's regional newspapers? Or is there something else, aside from Jonathan Ross and the telly tax?

it's ideological - the bbc is full of lefties.

not only that, the whole concept of the BBC is lefty.

and yet they've employed Jeremy Clarkson, Carol Thatcher, Michael Burke, Patrick Moore (latter two mentioned just due to sexist comments made in past)...

Patrick Moore is very right-wing on immigration too, unfortunately.

and yet they've employed Jeremy Clarkson, Carol Thatcher, Michael Burke, Patrick Moore (latter two mentioned just due to sexist comments made in past)...

... and Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo and Nick Robinson and Quentin Letts ad nauseum

Michael Buerk is a Conservative?

Only when it comes to the BBC employing women, I think... women who get jobs he wants, that is

sexist, conservative, racist - all the same

Regardless of how many sexist conservative racist rightwingers are employed there, the very existence of the BBC as a huge part of the media landscape is a slap in the face to Tory free market ideals, so obviously they want to pare it back. I don't think it's all about Murdoch.

In my own experience, sexism is not limited to conservative men!

LOL, far from it!

Wondering how many Tories are anti-Beeb (lol anti-Auntie, don't mind me) cz free market ideals, nanny state trying to make us pay for socialised tv, drag out ancient acronym about the commies etc, and how many are in favour of preserving it as a Great British institution from the days when Great Britain etc etc, y'know, a relatively staid old thing that doesn't put quite as many flashing neon colours and topless ladies on as the other channels

I mean, the other group does exist, right? Or is this the sector of small-c conservatives who wouldn't admit to being such and vote Lib Dem? (PS this is not really intended derogatively as it describes much of my family and quite possibly me)

Hardly any of the latter and none who matter <--------- satirical poetry

and even they would be appeased by one radio station playing Test Match Special, the shipping forecast and The Archers

the opposition from Murdoch, the Mail etc is predicated purely on the BBC grabbing a fairly hefty slice of online eyeballs and TV ratings that might otherwise be going to their properties - however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising.. because then the advertisers would spread their (finite amount of) money over to the BBC innit

however Murdoch's greatest fear is that the BBC carries advertising..

also many BBC supporters greatest fear surely

i can't believe i said "carries" instead of using the subjunctive. GAH

Fun fact: the BBC was nationalised under a Tory government.

yeah, THAT'll stop their commie styles in their TRACKS! oh wait (a long time)

Some guy on the weather forecast talking about a lull in the rain definitely used the phrase "a bit of rest-bite" today. Beginning of the end if you ask me.

Given the accuracy of the Met Office, that forecast might prove to be something of a damp squid.

now we have a weatherman wearing jeans. It's a speedy apocalypse.

Don't be such a milk toast.

DAMMING REPORT
was behind the newsreader on the lead item a few weeks back. ten o'clock news.

I read something about Prime Gordon Brown on their website a few minutes ago.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8273467.stm

The person in the video is not Clarie Middleton. I don't know who it is! (Not to mention that the new chief executive's name is "Clarie", not "Claire"...)

goddamn liberal shilly-shalliers

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/dec/16/bbc-africa-have-your-say

I suggest all gays are put on a remote island somewhere and left for a generation - after which, theoretically there should be none left!

(is it legit to do a kind of quasi-homophobic zing here? along the lines of DIDN'T THEY TRY THAT WITH AUSTRALIA? OH!)

More of an Australophobic zinger there

patosceptic

Ban all Ugandan discussions, that'll solve the problem.

lol

Heard they were making a film about this - Last Queen Of Scotland.

Actually that's not funny.

you've just qualified for your own BBC3 series tho

Too subtle

Yeah, I actually don't know the gender of the accusers

I read "youth" being used in earlier reports, and only males are known as youths in newspaper speak.

I was just blithely assuming that that all terrible, royal arselicking, Welsh newsreaders are het!

The ever professional and competent Kay Burley talking to a government minister on Sky News this morning:

"What would you like to say to the parents of this boy, er, person?"

The Scum has a long history of being the most prolifically homophobic tabloid sheet in Britain; it has leveraged sexuality against individuals it seeks to exert control over and as a driver of public discourses for decades. In doing so it has ruined lives and encouraged violence

— tom (@tomrade_) July 12, 2023

Newsnight this evening hosted Sun columnist and prominent dickhead Rod Liddle to tell its audience that the paper had behaved impeccably. The corporation really doesn't help itself sometimes. https://t.co/PhUNoI1O2k

— James B (@piercepenniless) July 12, 2023

The BBC News front is a bit "Malkovich, Malkovich, Malkovich. Malkovich? Malkovich" at the moment.

https://i.imgur.com/lKLemo0.jpg

Why does Huw Edwards take ice baths?

On BBC's "today's papers", there is one front page missing...

They often don't get sent The Sun's. I'm surprised whenever it is there (not that I check it that often).

welp stephen nolan allegedly sending nudie pics of someone else to his staff now is it

hah, I would love to see this sanctimonious slug getting sacked .. but sadly....

scumbag transphobic troll caught being a sex pest shocker

just caught a 5 Live presenter talking to a couple of 5 Live presenters about the interview they did yesterday with a 5 Live presenter to discuss their 5 Live shows

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Stephen Nolan sent *two* sexually explicit images to *several* work colleagues, not only a "long-term friend and peer outside of work" as he claimed on his radio show on Friday. Today’s Irish News. pic.twitter.com/zs1JKvavEJ

— Rodney Edwards (@rodneyedwards) August 19, 2023

looks like Nolan's on air confession/apology was somewhat economical with the truth

I remember this cowardly intellectual minnow repeatedly asking Corbyn to condemn the IRA - what a fucking pumper

Good to see:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/2023/bbc-world-service-announces-emergency-radio-service-for-gaza

i wonder if they'll get the endless "those Chinese are it again" programming featured on the regular World Service?

Lol I am not a radio listener but...I hope not

They're an industrious ppl tbf

one tiny positive about life and death in Gaza: no Malcolm Gladwell NPR programs *analyzing* the causes of political polarisation if you tune into the Arabic wing of BBC WS

So many racists at this organisation like Dan Johnson who like to end their pathetic articles with made-up anecdotes from racists.

So many others refuse to talk about immigration - they fear the possible reaction if they share their view. Time and again I heard "not on camera" and "I can't talk about that".

A local driving instructor who offers lessons in different languages refuses to speak, saying "my tyres would be let down".

Immigration is contentious and, to many in Swindon, the Rwanda plan is controversial. Many local businesses and organisations here were also reluctant to engage. Some people haven't even heard of the plan, let alone formed strong opinions on it.

Vince is one who is happy to talk though.

He points at the bunting he strung across the street for the King's Coronation. He's glad he didn't take it down because he says the council won't put up any Christmas lights this year. He recalls an immigrant who once came in to request he remove the union flags hanging outside the shop.

"He said he found my flags offensive, but I said 'sorry, you'll have to get used to it'."

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we must bend over backwards to accommodate the beliefs of those who have been lied to their whole lives, no matter how harmful, rather than question the validity of those beliefs.