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Quoting: Terry Carey
Scouse,
I’m a bit apprehensive in replying to the comment above for we’ve been here before in disagreeing on this point.
The BBC is well known for being so biased against the Tories and, to a lesser degree the LibDems that most of their programmes on politics are laughable in the way that they steadfastly give more airtime to Labour and Labour’s point of view than to all others.
There is no way that the Beeb can be regarded as being favourable to any right wing politician or policy. I fail utterly to comprehend how you can see things that way.
TC.
Alright Terry, Why be apprehensive me auld mate? I did fix bayonets & prepared to charge but then I saw your bludy big pig stabber of yours & thought "sod thet for a game of soldiers".
If you look logically at this, if I being from the left think the BEEB has a right wing slant & you being of the right think it leans to the left, then they must be doing something right & batting down the middle. It proves the old saying, I have just made up, if you steer down the middle both side throw stones at you.
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It used to be that I, like many others, carried a small world band radio wherever I went in the world in order to listen to the BBC as being the only utterly reliable source of information. I still have that little radio, but never use it for the purpose for which I bought it all those years ago, for the simple reason of the BBC becoming totally politicized over the years to the point of very real bias to the liberal left. That’s a fact, unpalatable though it may be!
That’s not just my opinion. News pundits all over the world have come to rely less on the BBC than on other sources, or use other sources to verify what the BBC has said, only to find it wanting.
To be completely fair, the BBC are probably not alone, with CNN being possibly the worst, and in fact most US based sources are so US-centric as to be totally incredible.
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black versus white
A good argument Scouse but not entirely a valid one. Your left wing views must be so far over that anything less than total agreement with you must leave you feeling that the Beeb is leaning to the right.
However my moderate views - slightly to the right of Genghis Khan - suggest to me that the bias is to the left.
It seems Colin and I are on one side and you on the other so I suggest we leave it at that. We’ll never agree.
I can afford to be magnanimous - after all Colin and I are right.
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The question has long ceased to be whether the BBC is biased or not. Anyone using the internet as a news source knows it is.Unless you’re a leftist, in which case the BBC is on your side!
Which just goes to show how outdated the organisation has become. Its existence may have made some kind of crazy sense in a bygone era, but why now in the 21st century and in the age of internet and global communications they still continue to subsidise it with our taxes is a mystery?
At a time when we can get our news and documentaries and drama from anywhere how does paying for the BBC make sense? I would suggest that without taxpayer support and faced with real competition, the BBC as a news organisation would disappear.
I reckon everyone who works there must read the Guardian every morning before inventing the news!
Alright Michael, I fail to see where I have recoursed to insult, perhaps you can show me where I have. I have only made comment on what is apparent in your posts, all that is needed is for you to incorporate the word ’Pinko’ & you will have Mccarthy to a tee.
I am a thinking man & that’s why I’m against all extremes, fascism, communism & Mccarthyism being prime examples.
I’m a left winger, old Labour to be exact & think that the BBC is on a whole fair in their progamming but stray to the right on political subjects & news coverage. [/QUOTE
I dont like the term McCarthy Ultra Right, I would much prefer the term "Extreme Right Wing", and yes I will add Pinko. Given that this term was also used, during the cold war to describe someone sympathetic to communism, then you could argue that it would apply to both of us.!!
