Making the news today....

[Mark J]

 

[Squaredy]

1 hour ago, Mark J said:

 

I have heard this before.  The BBC have only made a mistake, and they are the victim of a vicious right wing attack.

 

I genuinely pity anyone who is sucked in by this.

[daveatdave]

the big issue seller seemed intrested   

[Squaredy]

If I get time tomorrow I will list some of the times in the last 20 years or so the BBC has been found guilty of institutional bias.  Of course that will probably be the fault of Ofcom.  The BBC are totally balanced and objective.

[sime42]

39 minutes ago, Squaredy said:

If I get time tomorrow I will list some of the times in the last 20 years or so the BBC has been found guilty of institutional bias.  Of course that will probably be the fault of Ofcom.  The BBC are totally balanced and objective.

 

Relatively speaking yes; the BBC are totally balanced and objective. 

Seriously though.Sure, they suffer from bias and serious errors of judgement. Like the Trump speech stupidly, or the Gaza/Israel coverage or the inordinate amount of airtime devoted to Light Blue rather than Green or Orange. But compared to anything else out there, nothing even comes close in terms of breadth of coverage and range of content. In the main all pretty balanced, overly balanced sometimes. 

 

What would you suggest as an alternative to the BBC? Surely to you don't want to end up with a situation like they have in the States, with very little but partisan "news" outlets. Or even worse, having to try and glean glimmers of truth from AI infused social media owned by the likes of Zuckerberg or Musk. Sends a shiver down my spine.

 

 

[Squaredy]

7 hours ago, sime42 said:

 

Relatively speaking yes; the BBC are totally balanced and objective. 

Seriously though.Sure, they suffer from bias and serious errors of judgement. Like the Trump speech stupidly, or the Gaza/Israel coverage or the inordinate amount of airtime devoted to Light Blue rather than Green or Orange. But compared to anything else out there, nothing even comes close in terms of breadth of coverage and range of content. In the main all pretty balanced, overly balanced sometimes. 

 

What would you suggest as an alternative to the BBC? Surely to you don't want to end up with a situation like they have in the States, with very little but partisan "news" outlets. Or even worse, having to try and glean glimmers of truth from AI infused social media owned by the likes of Zuckerberg or Musk. Sends a shiver down my spine.

 

 

I agree with much of your analysis, though I think they take the bias further than you do.

 

And over the years I have liked plenty of their non-news output.

There is not a perfect solution add every news outlet has an agenda of one sort or another.  What I think is wrong is for the public to be forced to fund the BBC.

 

The license fee should have been abolished as soon as there became a viable choice back in the eighties.  If the BBC are that good they will have no trouble attracting subscribers.  
 

To demonstrate how wrong the current system is, in my household we don’t watch any live broadcast TV except my wife and boys watch the Grand Prix which we pay for through Now TV.  But because they watch this I am forced to fund the BBC.

 

It is like shopping in Asda but there exists some archaic law that means you have to pay fifteen pounds a month to Tesco even though you choose not to shop there.