BBC - our moral guardian or a news reporting organisation?

[RickBFA]

In recent years, I've noticed that the BBC have moved from reporting news and events to having its own agenda for promoting a PC world where they create news.

I'm all for equality and tolerance but there is a PC "news" item/report/interview every day on BBC TV and radio.

There is also an increased prevalence of presenters letting their personal views interfere with their job of reporting and interviewing in an impartial manner.

Has anyone else noticed this shift?

[The Camel]

In recent years, I've noticed that the BBC have moved from reporting news and events to having its own agenda for promoting a PC world where they create news.

I'm all for equality and tolerance but there is a PC "news" item/report/interview every day on BBC TV and radio.

There is also an increased prevalence of presenters letting their personal views interfere with their job of reporting and interviewing in an impartial manner.

Has anyone else noticed this shift?

Funny that. I feel it has moved way to the right.

Perhaps that's a sign it's doing a good job.

[TightEnd]

generally i find the left think its too right and the right thinks its too left, which is indicative of decent balance

that said, i find it quite anti-brexit on occasion. A newsnight last week had 4 experts all pro-remain on a panel

i don't mind it (remain voter) but i know of plenty of brexiteers who frothed at the mouth about it

[PokerBroker]

I don't think it does either. 

I don't find it balanced at all, if anything it is a state propoganda machine. 

[redsimon]

Thought the Marmite article on today's news on bbc was interesting. To paraphrase "Marmite, you either love it or hate it, a bit like Brexit"

Well, I'm indifferent to Marmite, so I'm very confused tonight.

[RickBFA]

I'm not sure its a right or left issue. I think they do a good job with politics generally.

It's more about driving a PC view of the world and how we think.

[RickBFA]

And I have now stopped watching Breakfast News on Thursday, Friday and Saturday's as I don't want to see Naga Manchetty's face looking like a slapped backside when she is in a mood and her aggressive attitude to anyone who doesn't agree with her feminist view of the world.

[redsimon]

And I have now stopped watching Breakfast News on Thursday, Friday and Saturday's as I don't want to see Naga Manchetty's face looking like a slapped backside when she is in a mood and her aggressive attitude to anyone who doesn't agree with her feminist view of the world.

Don't think shes on Saturday's currently, I tend to avoid Thursday and Friday for GBBO and Apprentice related spoilers

[Longines]

I'm all for equality and tolerance but there is a PC "news" item/report/interview every day on BBC TV and radio.

OOI, what was today's and yesterday's?

[RickBFA]

I'm all for equality and tolerance but there is a PC "news" item/report/interview every day on BBC TV and radio.

OOI, what was today's and yesterday's?

Today's was on the Victoria Derbyshire show. Interview with a film director.

Asking questions like "are you a feminist?"

Quizzing him about why only younger women get film roles. His answer was interesting. He said the age of the women reflected what society wanted and in particular what women in research groups actually wanted. She didn't know what to say.

It seemed the issue of feminism was most important part of the interview.

EDIT. I missed the daily gem on Wednesday as I was in meetings from earlier and playing poker from 3.30pm.

[Doobs]

generally i find the left think its too right and the right thinks its too left, which is indicative of decent balance

that said, i find it quite anti-brexit on occasion. A newsnight last week had 4 experts all pro-remain on a panel

i don't mind it (remain voter) but i know of plenty of brexiteers who frothed at the mouth about it

Isn't that simply because there aren't any experts that are pro Brexit?  Michael Gove said as much, and you wouldn't catch him telling porkies.

I am with you on the balance thing.  You read leftie twitter and it is constant harping about bbc bias against them too.  And on the Brexit thing, I am pretty sure that Nigel Farage has been right up there in amongst the most frequent politicians on question time over the last few years.  I know he was number one for a while, but not sure where he stands now he is/isn't/is leader of UKIP. 

[AndrewT]

There is definitely a huge anti-Brexit slant in TV news and most newspapers because it's a very middle-class, metropolitan, university-educated dominated field, and those people are big pro-Remainers. This is part of the reason that Brexit was a shock, because the working-class, manual labour demographic doesn't really appear on the news very much.