Defund the BBC.

[Biscuit]

No one could be dumb enough to think RT/Sputnik is anything other than direct Kremlin propaganda.

You'd be amazed. I've seen plenty of people online share RT videos like it's a news source. Nearly all of them are 'defund the BBC' types. Boils my piss.

 

[zefarelly]

Yet you still don't declare where you get your news from!

The BBC is probably the least biased of all broadcasters.

My guess is a hole in the ground

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

So you want a state funded entity that purposely antagonizes a political party that private companies are also forced to compete with for market share? Hmmmm....some of you people are interesting. And by that I mean scary.

Not only that but you want to give them more money and power from public coffers as long as they do more to eliminate political opponents you don’t agree with. Damn damn damn.

[MENTION=9708]Farehamseagull[/MENTION] said nothing about eliminating political opponents.

I think you have just proven his final point

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

You'd be amazed. I've seen plenty of people online share RT videos like it's a news source. Nearly all of them are 'defund the BBC' types. Boils my piss.

Like the campaign to put an end to all the 'taking the knee nonsense', I suspect this latest bit of gammonry will end up where it belongs.

What next I wonder? 'Defund the NHS'?

No, the gammon don't have the bollocks for that one. Yet.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

As usual, you have a very jaundiced view of just about everything.

Do you really think that Corbyn and his crew ever had, let alone still have, that much influence? Do you really think Farage is the only person who speaks sense. The words Farage and sense should never be in the same sentence.

I would put you on ignore, but you’re hilarious.

I do think Corbyn had influence in a small but vocal and dangerous portion of society.

No Farage isn't the only one, Matt Hancock for instance has just yet again had a 10 out of 10 performance against the nit-picky Marr.

I am disappointed that you would consider zapping me with the ignore button Dave, as all though we may be polls apart politically you are clearly a man with morals and standards and I applaud you on that front.

If you find me funny great. Whether you laugh at me or with me that is cool too, this board can be awfully stuffy at times.

 

[vegster]

As per usual, your complete lack of intelligence shines through. It’s called a TV license.

Oh dear, your complete lack of intelligence is shining far more brightly. A " TV Licence" funds not only television but also the entire range of national and local radio stations.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

You what?

Although you are exempt from being ignored (which seems strange) please just take it that effectively I won't be conversing with you until you have something better to say.

 

[father_and_son]

How sure are you on this? As I tried to do research before and didn’t get this answer. They said if you watch I player at all... so the Mrs watches eastenders on a catch up and that’s it - no live bbc - so if you’re right we def don’t need a license...!?

I researched it a bit and didn't have a licence for quite a while as I only watched catch up stuff. Life changed and I became licenced again but don't believe the rules have changed.

There is a splash screen on iPlayer that asks if you have a licence. Back in the day, if you said no, all the live options disappeared. Assume this is still the case.

 

[Pretty Plnk Fairy]

Only one type of BBC that does it four me and its not the yogurt knittiers on the telly

Regards

DF

 

[KZNSeagull]

The BBC is one of, if not the finest things that this country produces. It should be cherished. It needs reform as everything does from time to time but, generally, it is excellent. If it's news pisses people off by challenging their views then good, it is doing it's job. Tailored, targeted news on social media does not do that - it is this that should be scrapped.

 

[Blue3]

National states all need access to a trusted broadcaster for some nations that broadcaster is state run state funded giving the states views an example might be RT in Russia for other nations the trusted broardcaster might be a one of many privately funded companies an example might be in Tumps USA Fox is that broardcaster.

In the U.K. we have a publicly funded but crucially not state controlled broardcaster which historically been an important point

 

[stewart_weir]

I don’t watch the news anymore on either TV. I find the MSM to be extremely biased. I use the BBC website for sport but nothing more.

I want my news to be factual and unbiased. News reporters should not be offering opinions. What the BBC fails to understand is that the majority in the country are not woke, liberal, metropolitan people. There are a vast range of opinions and views, and jsut pandering to the left is alienating many.

For example, after the Brexit vote, any piece of economic data was qualified with “because of Brexit/despite Brexit” (depending if it was positive or negative). That is combing fact with opinion.

I’ve cancelled my TV license - not to save money as I wouldn’t notice it. Purely out of principle at the bias (IMO) of the BBC. Let’s see how woke the BBC would be if it had to be self funding.

Everything has to be sensationalised now. Even sporting fixtures are over-hyped. Weather events are over dramatised as though it’s the end of the frigging world. If there’s a little bit of flooding, the reporters will fins a street, see if they can find the deepest points and stand in that. But when you pan out it’s just a localised bit of flooding (for example).

BBC one of the least biased news outlets you can find. I bet you wherever you get your news from is privately owned and has a bias towards left or right. Its was to find sensationalism but for sure its far more prevalent at the privately owned media organisations.

 

[n1 gull]

BBC one of the least biased news outlets you can find. I bet you wherever you get your news from is privately owned and has a bias towards left or right. Its was to find sensationalism but for sure its far more prevalent at the privately owned media organisations.

I think you are missing the point as the BBC claims to be unbiased where as other news outlets don't. The Guardian is Labour supporting, Telegraph Tory etc etc..

The BBC during this pandemic has been a disgrace. They report death stats as fact rarely giving any other information like age, underlying health etc.. Where is the balance to challenge Sage and the political opinion about lockdown? On the BBC news website they ran a story about Van Morrison being dangerous as he's releasing an anti-lockdown song ffs! Now they are reporting positive test results without mentioning if the people have symptoms or not, let alone the amount of false positives?

Why aren't Panorama or other investigative news shows looking into hospital numbers or lack of cancer care?

The BBC news is just a Government mouth piece promoting the agenda and not challenging it. If you don't agree you are basically branded a conspiracy theorist. One phone in on Radio 5 was titled 'Do you mind losing civil liberties to save lives' - show me the balance in that?

I don't blame people turning off the BBC and I can only see the Defund movement growing

 

[midnight_rendezvous]

I do think Corbyn had influence in a small but vocal and dangerous portion of society.

No Farage isn't the only one, Matt Hancock for instance has just yet again had a 10 out of 10 performance against the nit-picky Marr.

I am disappointed that you would consider zapping me with the ignore button Dave, as all though we may be polls apart politically you are clearly a man with morals and standards and I applaud you on that front.

If you find me funny great. Whether you laugh at me or with me that is cool too, this board can be awfully stuffy at times.

Wow. There’s just so much here I don’t know where to start. But, at the risk of sending this thread to the Bear Pit, let’s do it!

Why was JC’s influence dangerous? On the flip side the number of people in prison in relation to far-right terror offences has increased nearly five times since the neo-Nazi murder of the MP Jo Cox. The likes of Yaxley-Lennon (who told his supporters to vote for Boris) and Farage, who you say yourself talks sense, have fuelled these hate filled ideologies. And you say Corbyn and the left are dangerous? I think you need a bit of a reality check on that one.

As for Hancock’s “10 out of 10” performance on Marr, I can only assume you’re either joking or you need to take off your blue tinted specs.

 

[Guinness Boy]

They can't tell. The only way they can tell is if they get into your home, and you are under no obligation to let them in. I haven't paid for years.

You're such a rebel Al. I hope you don't waste the £13 a month on Palace tat.

 

[cunning fergus]

It is a right wing cancel so if you are right wing and a bit thick (most right wingers aren't) jobza goodun.

If not, this looks like another 'I am baffled, please help me' thread by Leaky.

Hmm......any anti establishment movement will always be “left wing” based on the genesis of the definition of what left wing means.

Ergo Brexit was left wing........the lack of intellectual rigour in today’s political discourse is woeful, little wonder we have a generation of self described neo socialists who rail against the difficulties of getting on the housing ladder.

 

[cunning fergus]

BBC one of the least biased news outlets you can find. I bet you wherever you get your news from is privately owned and has a bias towards left or right. Its was to find sensationalism but for sure its far more prevalent at the privately owned media organisations.

It’s biased it’s staff say so.......

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/pol...stand-why-people-in-uk-voted-to-a4242956.html

 

[larus]

Oh dear, your complete lack of intelligence is shining far more brightly. A " TV Licence" funds not only television but also the entire range of national and local radio stations.

Oh dear, your complete moronic post again fails to realise that you don’t need a TV license to listen to the radio, whatever the station. Do keep up gammon.

 

[cunning fergus]

The problem is people don't want to spend money to get good quality news anymore. They're rather get any old rubbish because it's free.

If a product is free, you are the product. That means you're helping them get ad revenue, or you're allowing them to influence your vote.

The principle of the license fee is sound. I think they should be focussing on news though.

The principle of the licence fee is far from sound, as non payment is a criminal offence, which means the BBC criminalises the poor. That is a fact and therefore if the BBC is genuinely a progressive force it will cease to use criminalisation of non payment going forward.

That will not save it though because institutionally it is not appealing to its core audience, which in truth has never been more fractured such are the benefits of multicultural Britain. Pursuing Grannies (animal mineral or vegetable) through the courts is not a good look and it will be its death knell if it chooses to pay Capita to do so all the while Lineker et all are cosseted with contracts worth millions.

The modern day BBC is like the modern day Labour Party, it took a shit on a substantial constituency of its supporters, they will get by no doubt on their new supporters, and they will have to. I stopped paying my licence fee a year ago.

 

[B-right-on]

BBC one of the least biased news outlets you can find.

The BBC is still biased. Doesn't matter if its the 'least' or not. Its still very biased and should not be. There's still a strong political agenda that's played out in the many examples in this thread.

The BBC news could be a non political force for the good.

Their biased leaning tho is overshadowing their great works they do do. Some good dramas, comedies, nature programs, etc...

Hardly ever watch BBC TV but listen to BBC R2 most days (except between 12 and 2 for slime when I have on Absolute Radio).