why the bbc is going down the pan

[Raheem]

Work on your google fu

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I apologise unreservedly to the BBC. Clearly, it is me who is going down the pan, and the BBC is very much atop the pan.

 

[Raheem]

Obviously, I never googled anything, so I was asking for it.

 

[Cerv]

shite headline.
he was hit "with" a baton. he was hit "by" a police officer.

 

[stavros]

Why the hell was that cunt Farage all over the radio this morning, just because he's turned up at another party's conference? The electorate have given their verdict on the man, seven times, and yet the BBC keep feeding him.

 

[stavros]

Let's illustrate this story with someone who isn't standing, but is in fact the disgraced former MP they're looking to replace.

 

[Raheem]

On ten o'clock news, a report from Nir Oz, in southern Israel.

"Nir Oz is now a place of silence. And noise."

 

[platinumsage]

Let's illustrate this story with someone who isn't standing, but is in fact the disgraced former MP they're looking to replace.

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Obviously they can't promote one candidate over any other by gifting them a headline photo, and as there isn't a photo with all the candidates they've gone with the most relevant person to the fact the by-election is taking place.

 

[Knotted]

Labour backs the government's stance of calling for Israel to pause its action against Hamas to allow aid into Gaza.

Labour: Burnley councillors quit party over Israel-Gaza ceasefire stance

The leader of Burnley Council and 10 other councillors have resigned from the party.

www.bbc.co.uk

In context they might as well have added "so what are they complaining about?". How hard is it to add "but refuses to call for a cease fire." But worse than that, it assumes Israel's action is solely against Hamas which is a huge contention to make.

 

[hash tag]

Any idea what the connection is between this person and the railways or Wales even ( snipped from BBC news ).

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

basically, for the amount of money wasted. Beyoncé could have played at the Daneside Theatre in Congleton, for 6 decades.

 

[hash tag]

basically, for the amount of money wasted. Beyoncé could have played at the Daneside Theatre in Congleton, for 6 months.

It was Beyonce?

 

[kalidarkone]

It was Beyonce?

It is Beyonce. Still.

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Just a note BBC coverage of war in Gaza disgraceful: lead item about US envoys looking to bring peace when they and the UK are arming the perpetrators of genocide.Sick

 

[stavros]

Perhaps not the best photo to convey "very serious":

 

[hash tag]

Should people who work for a news channel have no bias?

Carol Vorderman leaves BBC radio show over anti-government social media posts

Carol Vorderman broke BBC guidelines with vocal attacks against the government on social media.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Cerv]

Vorderman didn’t work for a news channel though. Or even a news programme on that channel.

 

[hash tag]

But she works for the BEEB on the radio!

 

[Brainaddict]

Should people who work for a news channel have no bias?

Carol Vorderman leaves BBC radio show over anti-government social media posts

Carol Vorderman broke BBC guidelines with vocal attacks against the government on social media.

www.bbc.co.uk

It's not even worth discussing in theoretical or free speech terms or whatever. It's a naked exercise of power by the government, which has clearly pushed the BBC into this. It is important to place it as part of a wider authoritarian drift by the Conservative Party rather than just debating in isolation who should or shouldn't get to express their views.

 

[teqniq]

I suspect hey didn't need much pushing considering some of the people in charge at the BBC

 

[Brainaddict]

I suspect hey didn't need much pushing considering some of the people in charge at the BBC

Some of the people in charge at the BBC are also part of the authoritarian drift of this government.

 

[Nine Bob Note]

Well, she still has her equity-release gig, so I doubt she'll starve

 

[Raheem]

As if they're facing a bleedin' hurricane.

 

[SpookyFrank]

[Netanhayhu] added that Israel would maintain military control of Gaza after the war, similar to its military control over the West Bank - which many experts have called a "military occupation".

Not sure military occupation needs to be in inverted commas there. I mean what else would you call it if your military is controlling someone else's territory.

 

[GarveyLives]

On 30 October 2023, BBC Newsnight failed to declare that a military expert it presented as an independent commentator is a director of a charity bankrolled by the Israeli army:

Colonel Richard Kemp runs a charity that raises money for the Israeli Defence Force. Why is this not mentioned by the British media when they use him to speak about Israel and Gaza?

(Source: Screenshot from Newsnight/BBC)

"Independent" military expert?​

 

[equationgirl]

Doesn't sound very independent...

 

[brogdale]

Not so serious, but...

 

[andysays]

Not so serious, but...

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There's a huge spoiler right there in the opening line

 

[stavros]

Given the programme's reputation for portraying the truth, maybe she doesn't die.

 

[danny la rouge]

It’s the last line that gets me. I’m imagining the Shawlands Athletics phoning and saying “P ONeill here. This was us. Double X.”

Flour road markings for Glasgow runners spark emergency alert Flour road markings for Glasgow runners spark emergency alert

 

[PR1Berske]

Newsnight to become a 30-minute discussion programme, lose its investigative remit:

BBC's Newsnight cut back as part of savings plan - BBC News

The long-running show will have an overhaul, but more resources will go into BBC digital journalism.

www.bbc.co.uk