The BBC

fuck this appalling shit

Asked for clarity on confusion, BBC said pride is fine if it is seen as a “a celebration”, but if the “trans issue" (as it was described) is involved then it passes as a protest and news and current affairs staff should not attend.

— Benjamin Butterworth (@benjaminbutter) October 29, 2020

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54756575

One of the most disgraceful articles I've ever seen on the site.

jfc

just a bbc reporter tagging in some far-right accounts for signal boosting pic.twitter.com/fdowoX6lMo

— allan saint-maximin fan account (@ChrisKPH) November 1, 2020

When Covid lockdowns put an end to his work as a wedding DJ, Jeremy Davis was free to launch himself into his other passion - trying to stop migrant boats heading from France to the shores of the UK.

right-wing extremist has a nervous breakdown, someone call Prevent. Would be the correct take, how impartial of them.

I believe i pointed out somewhere else this week it's always the DJs

She’s tagging them because they were all featured in a documentary she made (with Grace Dent?) on the topic. Obvs have not heard it but at least one of those accounts suggested it was fair to their cause, which seems like the bigger issue. It looks like she has made a couple of other docs on the same theme over the last two years for them.

Listen to those protesting against migrant boats landing in Kent @BBCRadio4 @RHannaford

@SteveLaws19 @PatriotActive66 @LittleBoats2020 tell @gracedent why they think it's time to take a stand:https://t.co/ih2RlYtluO

— Sue Mitchell (@SueM1tchell) October 12, 2020

xp lol I was just searching for this

Notes on "Scamp" (Noodle Vague) wrote this on thread Friend Infected With Right Wing Brain Worms - What to Do? on board I Love Everything on 27-Oct-2020

Lol it always seems to be DJs

"The Untold", yeah, right. BBC going hard on getting Corbyn thrown out of the Labour Party on Politics London this morning - even though they surely must know there's no possible legal or otherwise basis for an expulsion.

process will be stitched up though surely. seems like it would be politically v hard for kieth to walk all the assembled forces back down the mountain

Have they aligned on what he has been suspended for yet?

Apart from being Jeremy Crumlin.

i suspect this is mainly about Kieth playing the strongman (incredibly stupidly) on antisemitism, and any left wing people quitting the party in frustration and disgust is just a bonus

Depending on what he has been suspended for, if they did kick him out, they might have to also kick out any member / MP supporting him or sharing a platform with him in the future, per the CST pledges that Starmer signed up to - though pledges obviously are flexible where he is concerned.

Rayner didn’t seem particularly clear on Newsnight aiui, idk what the briefing has been ahead of Marr et al today.

Starmer's done this because he lost his temper and lashed out and also because he's a control freak cop boss

i imagine they're looking for the least embarrassing way to walk this back but who knows? it's not like anything matters

Grace Dent has eventually parlayed a career from very little.

that bbc article made me feel sick

So I've had a little look and every single person they interviewed in this show is a member of For Britain, the far right political group. Jeremy Davis is organising vigilante groups full of ex squaddies who have been warned for harassing and intimidating migrants https://t.co/j0eh7ixXKk

— Low Key Mash (@terryfuck45) November 1, 2020

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-us-2020-54837926

Donald Trump's speech fact-checked

Does this happen domestically? Seems odd we'd devote so much time and resource to fact checking an outgoing foreign leader with a lengthy history of blatant lying while letting our local lads brief their favourite bbc stenographers on a daily basis.

I agree.

The UK PM is a corrupt pathological liar.

They do not treat this person as they do Trump.

They would be afraid to do so, even if they wanted to.

it's been doing this since May was PM although, yes, the focus has been on the us for the last few months, obv

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/reality_check

hilariously though the guy who usually reports on this stuff is called Chris Morris.

That's different, though, from the way that Trump has been reported this week, with journalists in main reports enjoying saying and writing 'The President then repeated his baseless accusation that ...'.

There is something craven about doing this now, but not doing it earlier, and not doing to the equally lying scumbags in our own country.

yep, enjoy this freak outbreak of truth, it'll be gone soon

> That's different, though, from the way that Trump has been reported this week, with journalists in main reports enjoying saying and writing 'The President then repeated his baseless accusation that ...'.

onimo doesn't mention that, just the fact checking.

also, i've been through the first 12 pages of this and can't see anything like you're referring to:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election/us2020

i think they are more careful after the Naga episode.

I was shorthanding and not checking my facts tbh but I agree with the pinefox that this week has appeared different. It's like they saw CNN and MSNBC interrupt Trump's election night speech to call shenanigans on his bullshit and thought "we should do some of that, though obviously not with our guys, that would be bad form."

CNN showed the whole thing, sadly, although Cooper did call him an 'obese turtle', directly after.

considering the contorted relationship to facts evident in some US fact-checking (notably the WaPo), I'm not crying that the BBC are not using it

Fact checking as a weapon is a terrible approach for a nominally unbiased public broadcaster and I agree there's no need for it. We don't need a home grown Daniel Dale spending every waking hour going "the lying man lied again!"

However, a bit more of "presented by x as fact without evidence" might have counted as responsible journalism during Brexit/Indyref.

there was some nonsense on R4 last night that still included the bit recorded with recently convicted rapist tory MP as an example of someone with a bolshy Brit attitude. Very classy lads

There could be a weekly TV programme where a panel of experts respond to events during the week and evaluate evidence etc.

> PLAY FOR TODAY box sets is being released by the BFI

tuesday's repeat is The Black Stuff

I love that bit in The Black Stuff when the Social Security narc threatens to make a home visit on the character played by the late Michael Angelis, and he laconically replies "I'll bake a cake then". You'd get sanctioned for such lip now.

no one asked for this but the BBC announced it anyway because, much like the Rule Britannia song bullshit, this is meant to generate 1000 hours of people on TV complaining about the left. It’s meant to turn yer da an even darker shade of red. And lo, it’s already working pic.twitter.com/90HBr0Tb6a

— Dr. Strategy (car/cyclist forensics expert) (@inthesedeserts) November 19, 2020

Loads of people asked for it last year!

Worth it for this

Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite https://t.co/znPSuhkSo0

— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 19, 2020

oh ffs "Oliver's Army" is trending on Twitter because these gammon wankers have decided if they can't get their fix of homophobic words on the radio they'll search for racism.

(the n word has been censored in radio edits of "Oliver's Army" for years btw)

a scary song just got scarier

Can we please just have "Eat The Rich" by Motorhead as Christmas number one plz?

Worth it for this

Fuck off you little herrenvolk shite https://t.co/znPSuhkSo0
— The Pogues (@poguesofficial) November 19, 2020
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that's class

Small Axe: Lovers Rock is the best thing I've seen on the BBC in years

the reith lectures are frequently bad, but right now I'm in a very bad mood and want to string up Mark Carney on a gallows after hours of slow torture (as painful as his lame lecture feels like)

#1 is on markets & morals

i'm guessing he takes a different tack on this than i would

I went through a period of some kind of locked in syndrome where I felt powerless to stop myself from listening and was hating every one of his words, because I'm having a stressful day, but then I found the strength to change channels and feel much better now!

carney's a comically shit interview. the gushing presenter is like 'what was the high point of your tenure at the bank of england??' and he's like 'to be frank, i really don't think of my time there that way, my time was spent assessing leading indicators, deliberating courses of action, communicating with stakeholders'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/dec/02/bbc-journalists-twitter-study-reporters

Our findings on the Labour party factions confirm claims by Corbyn supporters that the former leader’s critics in the party were given inordinate attention by the BBC. This is underscored by the fact that Corbyn himself – who had by far the largest Twitter following of any MP – was followed by fewer BBC journalists than either his predecessor, Ed Miliband, then deputy leader Tom Watson, or Change UK’s leading light, Chuka Umunna.

xp

I enjoyed the Margaret MacMillan one, even though like a lot of historians her takes on modern politics are utter dross. But at least she's never such a dull corporate mediocrity as this mother!

though the idea that quant is more objective or w/e is incredibly specious its a pose that seems to hold a lot of water with people generally so imo that is a pretty good approach from mills et al in that article u posted nashwan