tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post2591488780932537981..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: "We really want to help you come to a view on that"Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-80159992742413519152018-11-29T22:33:25.945+00:002018-11-29T22:33:25.945+00:00I still haven’t forgotten Evan Davies reporting ev...I still haven’t forgotten Evan Davies reporting events during the height of the banking crisis in tones of delight, as if the whole catastrophe was a source of enormous satisfaction. At a time when ordinary people were desperately worried about their jobs and paying the mortgage - an extremely unpleasant individual.Terrynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14559089829852662262018-11-29T19:37:34.004+00:002018-11-29T19:37:34.004+00:00I’d say it’s well organised and definitely not ran...I’d say it’s well organised and definitely not random. How it’s done well of course we are not allowed to know. Despite being forced to pay for it.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-9382312778133195852018-11-29T17:09:09.400+00:002018-11-29T17:09:09.400+00:00It is fascinating...and instructive. It shows for ...It is fascinating...and instructive. It shows for one thing they can turn on and off the bias tap at will. And they can run it hot or cold, at will as well.<br /><br />A shame we have no anthropologist to study how the BBC Tribe reaches its conclusions and decides things. Does the Tribal Chief send down messages, do the meetings of the tom-tom masters (editorial meetings) decide on "lines", is it what is discussed over coffee,in wine bars and over lunch that really count - how much does the great totem of the tribe, the Guardian, influence their thinking? Or is it all more random - one sheep happens to point its nose in one direction and the whole herd follows? <br /><br />I don't profess to know. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-29561086263169291842018-11-29T17:02:16.392+00:002018-11-29T17:02:16.392+00:00Even more succintly: "Believe this or suffer!...Even more succintly: "Believe this or suffer!"Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50975027283680225802018-11-29T16:49:53.922+00:002018-11-29T16:49:53.922+00:00To put it another way,"We think you're st...To put it another way,"We think you're stupid, so we'd really like to tell you what to think."Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-8737044243003391212018-11-29T16:42:55.787+00:002018-11-29T16:42:55.787+00:00In what way could the BBC help the average person ...In what way could the BBC help the average person come to a view on a document of 585 pages (now supplemented by some further 20 or so pages) packed full of jargon, legalese and impenetrable politico-speak? They can give us THEIR view but they can't help US come to your view in any meaningful sense. Our view will be determined by a host of factors. A key one for me would be "Has May behaved in an open and honest manner since becoming PM and handling the Brexit process?" Answer: an emphatic NO - as evidenced by what her two now ex Brexit ministers have said and by the fact she never made clear that it was she and her civil servants who were negotiating Brexit, not the Brexit ministers. For me that counts for much more that what a lefty sociology prof might want me to believe. Monkey Brainsnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-73881761001352504742018-11-29T16:42:07.952+00:002018-11-29T16:42:07.952+00:00Yes, this unlikely alliance between a Tory PM and ...Yes, this unlikely alliance between a Tory PM and the BBC is fascinating. May has been so delighted to have the Beeb as an ally that she has allowed them to abandon all pretence of impartiality. That's fine for Remainer Tories at the moment, but the fun will come in the run-up to the next election when they want to get both genie and cork back in the bottle & demand impartial reporting.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-51431381328214068192018-11-29T15:33:17.150+00:002018-11-29T15:33:17.150+00:00- and we really want to help you come to a view on...- and we really want to help you come to a view on that - must be the new expression for 'explain', which for some reason seems to have been abandoned.Arthur Trofhttp://otboae.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-40267695008375302232018-11-29T15:05:21.124+00:002018-11-29T15:05:21.124+00:00If all I have read about the forthcoming BBC '...If all I have read about the forthcoming BBC 'Trilla from Treeza' is any sign, it looks pretty much like they have 'come to a view' with the PM, sacrificing all their media mates in the process, again, which is... 'brave'. <br /><br />And of course all in the chatterati from Westminster to W1A to Salford have rather forgotten the folk who actually went into the ballot for the first people's vote. Again.Emmahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11550976834509947355noreply@blogger.com