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Interesting that resigning head of news denies the BBC is biased.. they just don't get it. Corrupt.. biased... call it what you like. If you can't trust the BBC then something is terribly wrong. To call a disgraceful edit that had to be by design.. "a mistake" is not fooling anyone.

The BBC was forced to make 215 corrections in the last two years over the coverage by its BBC Arabic arm ( funded through our licence fee) of the Gaza conflict.

This is why it isn't really the Trump thing, although that will be all the focus.

The BBC is biased to the right if one is left of centre (me) and biased to the left if one is right of centre (the PB Tory massif).

Clearly one can offset those 215 pro Gazan corrections with the 215 or so times the BBC has relied on Eylon Levy and other assorted ghouls for "unbiased" commentary on the Gaza war.

There is a lot of merit in the first sentence. Personally I think the bias is not left/right, it’s more metropolitan/young vs rural/old. It’s the advert conundrum in another form. Young BBC staffers living young urban lives are surrounded by people from all kinds of backgrounds that crucially share most of the same values. So that’s the view that dominates. It reminds me of all the uni staff who never met anyone who voted for Brexit. Well of course, because their circle didn’t.

Even if we hate Trump’s guts, can we at least all agree that the BBC editing his speech from:

“March to the Capitol, peacefully and patriotically”

To:

“March to the Capitol, and fight like hell”

Is not just misleading, but deliberately and deceptively so on their part.

'If you don't fight like hell, you're not going to have a country anymore'

i guess he just meant fighting peacefully

The problem is that the BBC edit in the documentary gave the impression that President Trump was inciting a mob to attack the Capitol, whereas any attentive fair-minded observer who watched the whole speech would conclude that he was inciting a mob to attack the Capitol.

We can't have that, now the hypersensitive volatile despot has been reelected and wields huge power according to personal whim. You have to pretend Jan 6th didn't happen. The Beeb have the excuse that the doc aired before the election, but it's not a great one. There was always the risk he would win.

If the BBC ceased to exist next week, I don't honestly think we would miss it much now.

Perhaps feel nostalgic for what it was, but miss what it has been reduced to? I can't see it.

Ironically I think the younger you are the less you would even notice it wasn't there.

On a weekend where Scotland had a huge game against the All Blacks, Liverpool (reigning champions) vs Man City (best side of the last decade), a Grand Prix, and countless other great sporting events the BBC showed the dead rubber of Eng vs Aussie in a sport so obscure it’s limited to a few towns in Northern England and some bits of Australia.

Nothing more encapsulates the death of the BBC. Streaming, pay per view whatever, the viewer can choose what content he or she watches and pays for it. The BBC licence fee is indefensible in the modern age. I don’t pay Ford when I buy a Toyota. I don’t pay Waitrose when I shop in Lidl.

The BBC is infected with unbiased bias. It# inhabited by right on types who have swallowed whole that men can be women, that Gaza is all the fault of Israel, that Trump is evil. I think many BBC employees will be like some on here tonight defending the Trump editing. I men FFS.

It’s right that Tim Davie and Deborah Turness have finally taken responsibility and resigned from the BBC. But let’s be honest, this has been a catalogue of serious failures that runs far deeper.

The Prescott report exposed institutional bias that cannot be swept away with two resignations - strong action must be taken on all the issues it raised. The culture at the BBC has not yet changed.

BBC Arabic must be brought under urgent control. The BBC’s US and Middle East coverage needs a full overhaul. And on basic matters of biology, the corporation can no longer allow its output to be shaped by a cabal of ideological activists.

The new leadership must now deliver genuine reform of the culture of the BBC, top to bottom - because it should not expect the public to keep funding it through a compulsory licence fee unless it can finally demonstrate true impartiality.

https://x.com/KemiBadenoch/status/1987601695057367165?s=20

True impartiality to the BBCs critics is to fellate the right wingers . The right which already owns most of the UK media wants total control .