The Great Debate about the BBC and Licence Fee

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  • It is bias if you continually argue against one side of politics and openly side with the other. Fiona Bruce on Question Time can hardly disguise her intolerence to non-socialists on the programme. That is bias.

    As I said, bias is in the mind of those of a different view

    Thatcher thought the BBC was biased against her and threatened to sort them

    Blair thought the same and threatened the same

  • It is bias if you continually argue against one side of politics and openly side with the other. Fiona Bruce on Question Time can hardly disguise her intolerence to non-socialists on the programme. That is bias.

    It is entirely reasonable to disagree with about 50% of what is presented in shows that have an editorial. When you disagree with virtually everything then there is bias. When you have educated and informed yourself of the multiple facets that exist to any story and then listen to the very one sided version of events reported by the BBC then you know there is bias. If you believe there is no bias at the BBC then you need to expand your reading and media sources to take in more viewpoints. Basically stop living in an echo chamber.

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  • It's also in how they probe their questioning to force a response that meets their biased agenda. If it was questioning in court it could be called leading the witness like putting words in their mouth.

    Personally I think Question Time need completely scrapping. It's all faked with a prearranged audience that suits their agenda and questions already set out and ministers have time to prepare answers, not that they answer any and it all turns onto more of a bickering match. Fiona Bruce is no Angela Rippon.

  • It's also in how they probe their questioning to force a response that meets their biased agenda. If it was questioning in court it could be called leading the witness like putting words in their mouth.

    Personally I think Question Time need completely scrapping. It's all faked with a prearranged audience that suits their agenda and questions already set out and ministers have time to prepare answers, not that they answer any and it all turns onto more of a bickering match. Fiona Bruce is no Angela Rippon.

    It's like the Downing St briefings re corona virus, the questions are obviously presubmitted, you can see whoever is taking the briefing looking at the notes and prepared answers

  • As I said, bias is in the mind of those of a different view

    Thatcher thought the BBC was biased against her and threatened to sort them

    Blair thought the same and threatened the same

    It's also in how they probe their questioning to force a response that meets their biased agenda. If it was questioning in court it could be called leading the witness like putting words in their mouth.

    Personally I think Question Time need completely scrapping. It's all faked with a prearranged audience that suits their agenda and questions already set out and ministers have time to prepare answers, not that they answer any and it all turns onto more of a bickering match. Fiona Bruce is no Angela Rippon.

    QT was at its best when Robin Day was in the chair. He wasn't at all biassed. He was rude to everyone!

  • QT was at its best when Robin Day was in the chair. He wasn't at all biassed. He was rude to everyone!

    I think you have to remember that we went from no politician being interviewed to grovelling fawning interviewers and to the very inquisitive Robin Day which made him seem very rude. He in turn spawned a whole raft of "rude" interviewers who grilled celebs as well. Remember the BeeGees famously walking out of an interview with Clive Anderson

    Now we have politicians and others just refusing to do interviews with the likes of Piers Morgan, we have come full circle

  • Despite the heated arguments about the BBC refusing to continue free licenses to over 75's. Nothing has changed. We are still seeing the same financial waste around news and current affairs. The staffing has not been cut, the so called celebrities are still being wheeled out at every occasion. Money being wasted on Snowflake programming. Not to mention the bias against anybody whose opinions lie in the Centre and to the Right of politics

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  • Would you like the BBC to be controlled from 10 Downing St as the press is ?

    No but I would like the BBC to not have a bias and be even-handed. You are wrong in accusing the government of controlling the press. The fair minded press such as the Mail, The Express and the Telegraph are very popular among readers because they represent the views of the decent majority of the UK citizens. The minority Marxist anti-UK newspapers such as the Guardian, Mirror and Daily Worker are not popular because they represent the views of anarchists and Snowflakes. IMO

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  • You are wrong in accusing the government of controlling the press. The fair minded press such as the Mail, The Express and the Telegraph

    The Mail has Sarah Vine high up in it's editorial team, aka Mrs Michael Gove. The Express is Richard Desmond a Tory donor and currently involved in murk with Jenrick, and the Telegraph is of course the official organ of the Tory party

    Only those newspapers who are favourable to the government, aka Cummings, get invited to briefings

  • The fair minded press such as the Mail, The Express and the Telegraph are very popular among readers because they represent the views of the decent majority of the UK citizens. The minority Marxist anti-UK newspapers such as the Guardian, Mirror and Daily Worker are not popular because they represent the views of anarchists and Snowflakes. IMO

    You might want to check the actual readership stats before making statements such as this. The most popular (paid for) newspaper is The Sun, I don't know what that says about newspaper readers in general. :/=O

  • What is all this to do with the BBC?

    Perhaps you should answer that, it seems you took the thread in this direction.

    The Mail has Sarah Vine high up in it's editorial team, aka Mrs Michael Gove. The Express is Richard Desmond a Tory donor and currently involved in murk with Jenrick, and the Telegraph is of course the official organ of the Tory party

    Only those newspapers who are favourable to the government, aka Cummings, get invited to briefings

  • Perhaps you should answer that, it seems you took the thread in this direction.

    I didn't take the thread in any direction, I merely responded to those that had

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