Russell38

Don't you live in Germany how much do you pay to watch the BBC out of interest

IdonthaveaScooby

Why would someone UK want to subscribe solely to ‘merican media co anyway

bizzare

the shreksta

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Why do other channels seem to deliver the goods without raping us then? Nature programs are ok but let's be honest once you have seen one whale swimming in the water or one lion eating a carcass then there all the bloody same. Faulty towers and black adder can be viewed on you tube.
The BBC are just a load of bullies,**** their licence. I have a sky dish and no licence and when I 1st got sky I was never asked if I had a licence.
I've never entered into an agreement with the BBC so I shall not be paying them a ****ing penny.

P.s does anybody know when eastenders starts again as im missing it

ALi-B

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Looks like your clapping for you own failings:

:

That link is NOT BBC...that’s what I asked for.


Didn’t realise the licence paid for essex live

IdonthaveaScooby

You guys should try living in a country which really is one party one station state to witness what bias looks like lol

andy97

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We dont- but we have a national broadcaster behaving like a state propoganda machine against the voting majority on Brexit

IdonthaveaScooby

Why not hop off to somewhere Better like the States where you can pay as you go for everything , and defend your views with a handgun , from the loony left presumably

andy97

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Easier to defund the bbc. 😄

IdonthaveaScooby

Rich moaning old brexit pensioners harking back to days of yore

andy97

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who's old

IdonthaveaScooby

Another pissy lewis, full of wind

IdonthaveaScooby

Bad harvest this year . going to have import flour from abroad - likely to be more expensive following brexit



oh dear ,bbc biased reporting again !

Or just stating the obvious

andy97

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Come round ours, couple hundred acres of wheat

JackClark

As I said you can search yourself, the link shows why Farage's propaganda wasn't reported elsewhere.

Here you go, can't be arsed with your excuses https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla...-west-53811572

BMWhere?

I have a property in the UK and I have a TV license for it

BMWhere?

Hmmm, lets think about that!

"The state" is currently the Conservative government.

The Conservative government is pro-Brexit.

So, you're telling me, the state/conservative government are telling the BBC to be Anti-Brexit? So how does that work exactly?

Or is this a deep-state tin-hat kind of thing?

Russell38

So you are basically middle class left wing explains everything

ALi-B

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No excuse: The BBC have failed to report on issues in my localities. That is all there is to it. I pointed out one example. Here is another that you can easily see for yourself; Search ‘Bromsgrove Migrants’ google top results from local rag (full of clickbait ad : ). Search BBC; Nothing. Twitter; Good lord! (I don’t use twitter or have an account, but I often receive links from friends family etc.)

It is you that is making the excuses, implying that its my fault for not using google and deflecting by using my example as a means to undermine my opinion of the BBC, rather understand it. What is the purpose of regional news if it omits areas or issues that maybe important or informative to those living there?

I hinted that this is a institutional issue, I call it institutional bias but there are other buzzwords that could be used, either way it’s not reported because either they don’t want to or they felt no need. Both are wrong in my opinion.

As I said earlier I should not have to be informed from sources like Farage or whatever racist right wing propaganda outlet.

If no reliable news source is out there to counteract or challenge what Farage has found on a local level, then the only information publicised nationally is potentially misinformation resulting in concerns spreading. If I am funding a news organisation, then I expect it to report on local issues with as much effort as it does on say, exam results, viruses or whatever Trump is up to. By that I don’t mean front page, just a mention the regional sections would do.

Maybe I should have picked another reason favoured by the Mail reading Gammons of this country, say the number of weather presenters they employ, or Lineker’s salary. Not that I care for either, but it’s almost a Godwin’s law of HYS comments.

JackClark

What you seem to be saying is the BBC should spend their time fact checking Nigel Farage. Thankfully they don't.

BMWhere?

Middle class, yes
Left wing, definitely not!

ALi-B

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No: It’s quite simple..They have failed to report on issues local in the areas I live and work. Repeatedly.

Forget Farage for a moment, this was just mentioned in this one particular example.

I am wondering had I substituted the name ‘Farage’ for something else like ‘social media’ would the reaction be the same? All news should be fact based, so fact checking is part of good journalism, however let’s not digress on that.

ALi-B

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I thought you were on par with Gandhi

https://www.scoobynet.com/non-scooby...s-9yrs-on.html

Jokes aside it actually would be interesting on his opinion of the BBC

BMWhere?

That is where that test put me, but its not where I see myself

BMWhere?

Since when was the BBC a local news outlet? They are regional at best! Whether regional or national, they only ever report on the most important stories. Bromsgrove itself is a pretty insignificant place on the scale of the whole West Middlands region! Clearly Farage drumming up racial hatred at a hotel used to temporarily house migrants (which is nothing new) clearly was deemed important enough for the BBC to invest their regional or national reporters into and no doubt there were much more interesting stories going on in the wider region.

If you want local news, go to the local newspaper. If you want to read about right wing propaganda stories, the BBC is also not the place to go because they are simply going to fail the fact checking.

Most "news" stories about migrants are simply not newsworthy, but part of truly biased news agencies promoting the culture of racial hatred in the hope to create genuinely newsworthy stories such as large scale protests or even better riots, significant racial attacks and to steer public political pressure for issues such as Brexit, points based immigration etc.

ALi-B

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Ignoring specifics for the moment I do agree in part. Importance of stories is a case of cherry picking. But I do have concerns on the processes involved with selecting stories. There are facts about the one story I mentioned, and there is public interest, ‘cancelling’ a complete story for whatever reason needs a bit more transparency that that of present (if that is the case).

The regional local problem is another issue; The BBC was more localised, it pretends to be; You can list news based on your your exact geolocation. That Hotel actually isn’t Bromsgrove it’s actually in Marlbrook which is part of the Birmingham commuter conurbations. It was once called the Birmingham Hilton for that reason (until Hilton built a hotel nearer to Birmingham). So, Local? Regional? Significance? If it’s Birmingham or Worcestershire suddenly Bromsgrove isn’t that tiny (it’s actually a very large constituency). Regardless, nothing much happens in Worcestershire...yoofs today, pikeys dumping rubbish, rural thefts and someone crashing a car somewhere is about all that happens. So, becoming part of a right wing propaganda stunt is kind of a big deal to those living round there.

Especially when national papers pick up on it; The Independent have done a nice piece on it. So if it reaches national newspaper but not BBC regional nor national is it fair to question the cherry picking processes?

Coverage is less regional/local that it used to be. That a certainty; Closure of regional production facilities, funding cut backs etc ensure that has become more London centric at a cost of it becoming less relevant to people in poorly represented areas. So IMHO it needs to give up on regional news entirely or separate the national news from the licence fee; Midlands Today generally is a mix of someone being stabbed in Nechells (a daily occurrence), someone being shot round Handsworth (usually weekly) and Liz Copper doing her rural piece solely in Staffordshire/Shropshire about some parents being concerned about Dog poo in the front gardens (which turns out to be fox poo)...is the latter really worthy of putting on TV in precedence to other news?


Anyway. In today’s news:

https://www.theguardian.com/media/20...-station-in-uk

Probably just Murdoch click bait, although I thought we already had opinionated news...in the form of channel4 news.

Dr Hu

WOW - hadn't seen that one.... interesting times.... that'll put the wind up the Lefty, ultra PC Snowflakes in the BBC

BMWhere?

andy97

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Private member's bill to decriminalised license fee gets it second reading in November. If it passes, it should start the mass defunding of the BBC

BMWhere?

They released the schedule for the new 'unbiased' news channel!
​​https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/sep/01/farage-ferrari-bafta-fox-news-uk-rightwing-beeb

andy97

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500-600 households are cancelling their BBC license every day.

It won't take long with ~ quarter of a million households a year license free.

If that number is accurate, It will just snowball