A quick blog to get something off my chest. I would have preferred to have dealt with it quickly via Twitter but 140 characters were not quite enough - ha!
Like many people I am dismayed with the BBC. I feel they are failing in their role as a public service broadcaster because they have a bias that is undermining our society and running contrary to what the majority want and believe. I am 100% behind the Government in reviewing how the BBC is funded.
My view is the BBC are acting as a de facto political party with their own manifesto that they push and promulgate as a common theme in their news and programme output. As such they no longer deserve the privileged advantages they get through the licence fee. Why should I fund a political party whose views do not represent mine?
This week Polly Toynbee (the leftie champagne socialist) who writes for The Guardian and is often used by the BBC as social and political commentator tweeted the following :
Here today govt public consultation on BBC licence fee. All you wise people set aside carping and come to defence of this national treasure under attack by Boris. Gripes? Of course, but imagine UK without it. Fox news next... Write in NOW
I replied :
The BBC is acting like a political party. They have their own manifesto - left leaning liberal elite - pc - woke - anti Brexit - contemptuous of the government. As they no longer act as a public service broadcaster they forfeit their privileges in my view.
PT's response :
I do hope the left and the right read each other’s anti-BBC tweets, both (wrongly) claiming extreme bias. Can’t both be right??
and mine :
Actually it is reconcilable. Socialism Momentum style - hard left just does not stand up to scrutiny. The BBC politics is soft left including anti Brexit. The BBC is also serving up a diet of political correctness and wokeness that most people find patronising and controlling.
To clarify the point I am making I acknowledge the BBC face claims of bias from both left and right. Toynbee is arguing they therefore cancel each other out - the BBC must sit in the middle - between the two factions.
In my view this is far too simplistic and is disingenuous.
Obviously the BBC attracts criticism from Labour's Momentum types. They are extremists - radical left wingers . They are a red herring.
As the general election showed the majority of the electorate in this country are soft right.
This places the majority of the country at odds with the BBC. The BBC is soft left - liberal elitist - London centric serving up a diet of woke political correctness at every opportunity. They definitely had a corporate anti Brexit bias in my view. There editorial norm runs parallel with that of The Guardian. They have no right as a public service broadcaster to do that. They are misusing their privileged position. It is annoying. It is irksome and it is potentially dangerous.
The BBC needs to look hard at itself. The quiet majority are sick of their invidious bias and the normally silent majority are reacting. I am no longer a friend of the BBC. They are making a rotten (corrupt) mess of their remit.
Like many people I am dismayed with the BBC. I feel they are failing in their role as a public service broadcaster because they have a bias that is undermining our society and running contrary to what the majority want and believe. I am 100% behind the Government in reviewing how the BBC is funded.
My view is the BBC are acting as a de facto political party with their own manifesto that they push and promulgate as a common theme in their news and programme output. As such they no longer deserve the privileged advantages they get through the licence fee. Why should I fund a political party whose views do not represent mine?
This week Polly Toynbee (the leftie champagne socialist) who writes for The Guardian and is often used by the BBC as social and political commentator tweeted the following :
Here today govt public consultation on BBC licence fee. All you wise people set aside carping and come to defence of this national treasure under attack by Boris. Gripes? Of course, but imagine UK without it. Fox news next... Write in NOW
I replied :
The BBC is acting like a political party. They have their own manifesto - left leaning liberal elite - pc - woke - anti Brexit - contemptuous of the government. As they no longer act as a public service broadcaster they forfeit their privileges in my view.
PT's response :
I do hope the left and the right read each other’s anti-BBC tweets, both (wrongly) claiming extreme bias. Can’t both be right??
and mine :
Actually it is reconcilable. Socialism Momentum style - hard left just does not stand up to scrutiny. The BBC politics is soft left including anti Brexit. The BBC is also serving up a diet of political correctness and wokeness that most people find patronising and controlling.
To clarify the point I am making I acknowledge the BBC face claims of bias from both left and right. Toynbee is arguing they therefore cancel each other out - the BBC must sit in the middle - between the two factions.
In my view this is far too simplistic and is disingenuous.
Obviously the BBC attracts criticism from Labour's Momentum types. They are extremists - radical left wingers . They are a red herring.
As the general election showed the majority of the electorate in this country are soft right.
This places the majority of the country at odds with the BBC. The BBC is soft left - liberal elitist - London centric serving up a diet of woke political correctness at every opportunity. They definitely had a corporate anti Brexit bias in my view. There editorial norm runs parallel with that of The Guardian. They have no right as a public service broadcaster to do that. They are misusing their privileged position. It is annoying. It is irksome and it is potentially dangerous.
The BBC needs to look hard at itself. The quiet majority are sick of their invidious bias and the normally silent majority are reacting. I am no longer a friend of the BBC. They are making a rotten (corrupt) mess of their remit.
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| Polly Toynbee - a classic champagne socialist - Guardian writer and BBC favourite. |
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