Keir Starmer at it again..

[leedswolf]

Yes, agree with that.

Funnily enough I don’t have an issue with the bbc itself, and think people see what they want to see. My ex-Met copper FiL is a fucking embarrassment shouting at Question Time or whatever but its clear there are high profile employees there on both sides struggling to not let their political leanings leak out.

I think it does a reasonable job overall. but it is certainly struggling to keep the work of those with fierce partisan views and disdain for the other side impartial. That’s a tough one and probably something that’s not going to get any easier.

 

[Wolftone]

I think we are all being exploited for 'ratings'.
It's cynical.
It's dividing us.
Views are becoming more and more polarised.

 

[EpsomWolf]

Alistair Campbell, fuck me, there’s one of those attack dog elephant-in-the-room avoiders if ever there was one.

He’d do well to direct the same anger at the idiots within the BBC that have messed up time and time again and left the door wide open to those with an agenda in the first place.

 

[leedswolf]

Alistair Campbell, fuck me, there’s one of those attack dog elephant-in-the-room avoiders if ever there was one.

He’d do well to direct the same anger at the idiots within the BBC that have messed up time and time again and left the door wide open to those with an agenda in the first place.

So you disagree with the comments?

 

[leedswolf]

'BBC Bias' Memo Was Authored by Lobbyist Tied to Pro-Trump Tech Giants

The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

bylinetimes.com

 

[EpsomWolf]

So you disagree with the comments?

The right and left are both claiming the BBC is biased towards the other side and tbh there’s more than enough evidence to support both views.

All feeds into the battle to the death for control of the narrative. Neither side want free speech any more, they want controlled speech and they both want to be the ones who decide what that is.

We seen the success and subsequent backlash to cancel culture, the desperation to label anything someone doesn’t agree with as ‘hate speech’, and of course the absurd weaponisation of the fashionable non-crime hate incidents. At the extreme end we’ve all graphically seen the lengths some individuals will go to stop their more vocal adversaries literally having a voice. All those techniques though ultimately driven by the same desire - the control of the narrative, the setting of parameters and the silencing of the other side.

FWIW I’d like an impartial BBC and think the intentions are in fact there but it’s an impossible task. The prejudices/political leanings from individuals or certain production teams will at times inevitably leak out which is what has happened here and it’s hardly surprising those lying in wait to take the BBC down are seizing the moment when a beauty such as that has been handed to them on a plate.

 

[leedswolf]

The right and left are both claiming the BBC is biased towards the other side and tbh there’s more than enough evidence to support both views.

All feeds into the battle to the death for control of the narrative. Neither side want free speech any more, they want controlled speech and they both want to be the ones who decide what that is.

We seen the success and subsequent backlash to cancel culture, the desperation to label anything someone doesn’t agree with as ‘hate speech’, and of course the absurd weaponisation of the fashionable non-crime hate incidents. At the extreme end we’ve all graphically seen the lengths some individuals will go to stop their more vocal adversaries literally having a voice. All those techniques though ultimately driven by the same desire - the control of the narrative, the setting of parameters and the silencing of the other side.

FWIW I’d like an impartial BBC and think the intentions are in fact there but it’s an impossible task. The prejudices/political leanings from individuals or certain production teams will at times inevitably leak out which is what has happened here and it’s hardly surprising those lying in wait to take the BBC down are seizing the moment when a beauty such as that has been handed to them on a plate.

Thanks. Yes or no would have sufficed tbh

 

[EpsomWolf]

Thanks. Yes or no would have sufficed tbh

Yes, it would’ve to be fair, but the double standards and outrage over all of this is quite laughable and I suppose quite triggering.

It’s symptomatic of the same battle that is taking place on our streets with the conflicts around free speech, right to protest, direct action activism and government intervention, all of the stuff debated previously. The BBC is the big prize and I find the outrage and sudden calls to protect its impartiality a bit rich when impartiality was never the goal.

 

[leedswolf]

 

[leedswolf]

MPs and BBC staff call for Robbie Gibb to leave broadcaster’s board

Boris Johnson’s appointee is accused of pushing claims of institutional bias at the corporation after shock resignations

www.theguardian.com

 

[leedswolf]

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