tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post6113357853658972779..comments2024-01-01T17:21:52.555+00:00Comments on Is the BBC biased?: 2016/2017Craighttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08741318067991857821noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36876639341123314452016-12-27T16:49:33.571+00:002016-12-27T16:49:33.571+00:00Yes 2016 was a year in which the BBC bias became b...Yes 2016 was a year in which the BBC bias became blatant and undisguised. Over Brexit, Trump and, yes, even Corbyn. <br /><br />I get the impression that the BBC would just love to be able to settle back into a New Labour groove and ramp-up the anti-Tory messages under the guidance of a soft left elite - the BBC would love to repeat the Major years when they undermined what can now be seen as a pretty solid Government and replaced it with the opportunistic deceitfulness of Blair.<br /><br />But it can't. The world has moved on. It doesn't seem that the BBC can. I will call 2016 as the beginning of the end for the mandatory license fee.Ozfanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17351381043702605990noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-14175954942147837582016-12-27T10:52:30.328+00:002016-12-27T10:52:30.328+00:00Sorry that ended up being three examples! Sorry that ended up being three examples! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-32680672983199979492016-12-27T10:51:54.635+00:002016-12-27T10:51:54.635+00:00I agree. I think many people who previously though...I agree. I think many people who previously thought the BBC were in some sense "objective" now realise they construct their message as much as the Sun or the Guardian. <br /><br />Why haven't we seen any proper apologies from the BBC for their appalling coverage of both the Brexit and Trump campaigns. To cite just two examples: firstly, that Newsnight panel of "ordinary votes" that voted 9-1 to Remain (that could only have been the result of deliberate weighting of the panel, no poll would ever be so inaccurate); secondly, the constant refrain that Trump was not setting out any policies, when - anyone could find out he was outlining policies (and ironically some of them, like government funded infrastructure investment are actually strongly approved of by the BBC); and thirdly the attempt on Trump's life by a UK citizen (completely played down by the BBC - no investigation of how he came to be so radicalised as to want to kill Trump). Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-40251667266042311652016-12-27T09:49:04.046+00:002016-12-27T09:49:04.046+00:00Yes, I've noticed that this is beginning to ha...Yes, I've noticed that this is beginning to happen. My brother's eyes have been completely opened!David Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15289942317047915855noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-36424407997022046062016-12-26T23:52:17.243+00:002016-12-26T23:52:17.243+00:00Deleted because, yet again, it duplicated itself!Deleted because, yet again, it duplicated itself!Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-57894779195201687192016-12-26T23:48:52.634+00:002016-12-26T23:48:52.634+00:00This comment has been removed by the author.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-80039130618996978272016-12-26T23:46:34.820+00:002016-12-26T23:46:34.820+00:00As Craig says, it's been a terrible year for b...As Craig says, it's been a terrible year for blatant BBC bias, but that has had very positive spin-off: they have so over-egged the pudding that people who never used to notice the bias are becoming much more aware of it. Certainly friends of mine who used to roll their eyes & adopt the 'Beam-me-up-Scotty', look whenever I launched into an anti-Beeb diatribe are starting to agree with me and even point out examples of bias themselves. <br />What the BBC fails to realize is that constantly repeating the Remainiac 'we're all doomed' mantra, when we can see that the economy is picking up and that the likes of Nissan & Apple are investing here, is destroying, not the credibility of Brexit, but that of the BBC itself.Sisyphushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02650372666915304667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-50310891816188400462016-12-26T22:17:11.580+00:002016-12-26T22:17:11.580+00:00We always have a massive Xmas dinner with all of o...We always have a massive Xmas dinner with all of our family - after dinner is normally dominated by the vocal leftys (every family has them) who where saying the very same thing - this year was refreshing in that they got shot down by the rest young and old. <br /><br />If nothing else the referendum has engaged people again with politics and in my opinion given the right the courage again to speak and not sit in silence.Clockworkorangehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07538039281226245073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3272054900018746845.post-83686417648516920632016-12-26T20:44:51.442+00:002016-12-26T20:44:51.442+00:002016 as an annus horibilis is just another MSM mem...2016 as an annus horibilis is just another MSM meme, along with (you may have forgotten some of these):<br /><br />- Isn't the Referendum campaign really boring (actually it soon emerged that most people found it gripping and considered their vote very seriously)? <br /><br />- The Brexit vote will be followed immediately by a collapse in business and consumer confidence (remember when the BBC suddenly fell in love with the FTSE 250 index). <br /><br />- Leave had no chance of winning the Referendum. The polls confirmed that. <br /><br />- Trump had no path to the White House. The polls showed that. <br /><br />- Trump was a clown with no policies. (Now it seems like he's got too many for the BBC's liking.) <br /><br />- To suggest that any undocumented migrant arriving in Europe might be falsely claiming to be a child migrant was a gross racist slur. <br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com