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[Centrepin]

[chrisjpainter]

Huh. just removed my ad blocker and can now see...

Edited April 10, 2021 by chrisjpainter

[Smokersmith]

The BBC reported what he was charged with, they didn't title the charge themselves.

I just don't get why people have so much venom for the organisation.

For me, my only view is that they're just far better than ITV !

I must lead a blessedly simple life ...

[Newbie to this]

14 minutes ago, Smokersmith said:

I just don't get why people have so much venom for the organisation.

Simply because most people don't like being forced to pay for something they don't need or want.

[JDog]

2 hours ago, Smokersmith said:

The BBC reported what he was charged with, they didn't title the charge themselves.

I just don't get why people have so much venom for the organisation.

For me, my only view is that they're just far better than ITV !

I must lead a blessedly simple life ...

I disagree Smoker. The BBC is a twisted left wing biased organisation. Just look at the recent controversy caused when two Breakfast time presenters made fun of a Minister they were interviewing because he had a Union flag and a picture of The Queen in his office. 

Continuing to use Packham is another matter, as is dumbing down Countryfile and other wildlife programs.

I pay for the BBC through my license fee and taxes. I do not pay for ITV or other channels.

Edited April 10, 2021 by JDog

[chrisjpainter]

18 minutes ago, Smokersmith said:

The BBC reported what he was charged with, they didn't title the charge themselves.

I just don't get why people have so much venom for the organisation.

For me, my only view is that they're just far better than ITV !

I must lead a blessedly simple life ...

This. All they reported was what criminal charges have been brought, it's not the BBC's fault some are slightly daft. The only thing I can think of is that the circumstances indicate an immediate intent to do something criminal and violent with it. As opposed to MAYBE having it at home and found in a raid, where there's no immediacy to the committing of crime, or fooling around with one on private property.

 

[Westward]

3 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:

Simply because most people don't like being forced to pay for something they don't need or want.

I have no wish to fund an organisation that does a better job of being the official opposition than the Kier Smarmer's Labour crowd. News is news, opinion and propaganda is something else entirely, especially when it's as blatant as sneering at the Union Flag, but the BBC appears to not realise this!

Roll on Andrew Neil's new channel.

[oscarsdad]

1 hour ago, JDog said:

I disagree Smoker. The BBC is a twisted left wing biased organisation. Just look at the recent controversy caused when two Breakfast time presenters made fun of a Minister they were interviewing because he had a Union flag and a picture of The Queen in his office. 

Continuing to use Packham us another matter, as is dumbing down Countryfile and other wildlife programs.

I pay for the BBC through my license fee and taxes. I do not pay for ITV or other channels.

/\ this. 
 

those two should have been sacked, she’s making a fortune peddling her urban woke virtue signalling leftist nonsense all over the place so doesn’t need the money, immediately should have been sacked as a result of childish, unprofessional anti-British behaviour and never seen on the BBC again. 
 

I bet the lefty management of the BBC hates having to report how well our vaccine programme is going post Brexit alongside what a mess the EU is in by comparison. 
 

The license fee should be scrapped and change the BBC to subscription service like Netflix which we can choose to pay or choose not to. 

[243ack]

I like the Beeb's references to 'weapons grade nerve agent'. Is there a diy grade, then?.

[Centrepin]

In 1982 the bbc reported that my sister battalion 2 Para was poised to launch an attack on Goose green. Fortunately the Argentine commanders thought it was a conspiracy that no-one could be so stupid to announce an attack in advance. No action taken by them in advance.

bbc unforgiven.

 

In 2003 they did it again  and announced that the British where about to enter Basra. This time my son was in the first attack. Again the enemy couldn't belive the British so stupid as to announce an attack and took no action.

bbc unforgiven again. There have been others also.

I have to pay for these treasonous words and others.  The sooner the bbc is disbanded, broken up and sold off the better.

[TIGHTCHOKE]

5 hours ago, Westward said:

I have no wish to fund an organisation that does a better job of being the official opposition than the Kier Smarmer's Labour crowd. News is news, opinion and propaganda is something else entirely, especially when it's as blatant as sneering at the Union Flag, but the BBC appears to not realise this!

Roll on Andrew Neil's new channel.

Amen to all of the above.

[Walker570]

Just had another threatening letter and didn't bother to open it. Straight in the bin.  Nationally I wonder just how much money has been wasted on these threatening letters?

Must be millions. Still it ain't their money is it, like any left wing organisation.

[henry d]

6 hours ago, Newbie to this said:

Simply because most people don't like being forced to pay for something they don't need or want.

Like Netflix, Disney channel...

[Newbie to this]

1 minute ago, henry d said:

Like Netflix, Disney channel...

I have a choice with those, I don't with the BBC if I want to watch other channels than the BBC.

[henry d]

You have a choice to watch or not, if you do, then you pay. If you watch non BBC channels live or recorded live, you pay, if you do it on catch up then you don't pay. 

Personally I would be happy to pay 50p a day just to listen to 6music, and if you think that there is no bias in other TV stations then you are just kidding yourself

[GingerCat]

4 hours ago, 243ack said:

I like the Beeb's references to 'weapons grade nerve agent'. Is there a diy grade, then?.

Fly spray oddly enough

[Newbie to this]

8 minutes ago, henry d said:

You have a choice to watch or not, if you do, then you pay. If you watch non BBC channels live or recorded live, you pay, if you do it on catch up then you don't pay. 

Personally I would be happy to pay 50p a day just to listen to 6music, and if you think that there is no bias in other TV stations then you are just kidding yourself

I think you are mixing up comments, I never once mentioned bias.

And again if I watch a Sky channel, which I pay for, why should I pay the BBC for the privilege.

I understand you are more than happy to pay for their rubbish, that's your choice.

I have no choice, even though I do not use their services. That is just plain wrong, however anyone dresses it up.

The BBC should be a subscription service then those like you who are willing to pay for the rubbish can.

I think they may struggle for cash though.

[henry d]

3 minutes ago, Newbie to this said:

I think you are mixing up comments, I never once mentioned bias

No but others did, if I was responding to you only I would like quoted you like I have above and my post was to those responding above.

[12gauge82]

The BBC is a vile organisation that preys on the vulnerable and elderly, they send threatening letters to people who have done nothing wrong and hide behind laws passed by government that allows them to do it. Its a national disgrace. 

[clangerman]

as the government allows the bbc to operate when they have knowingly employed child molesting pedophiles they are a bigger disgrace than the bbc 

[oldypigeonpopper]

Hello, should be renamed British Bias Corporation , 

[Westward]

18 hours ago, henry d said:

and if you think that there is no bias in other TV stations then you are just kidding yourself

The topic is the BBC specifically, but I'm not kidding myself about other TV stations. Channel 4 with their "Right On" PC agenda and sickeningly left wing metropolitan liberal news presenters and correspondents is, if anything, more biased than the BBC. ITV news is marginally better but hardly even handed and the awful unfunny little twerp Tom Bradby who usually presents it has to be the most irritating person on TV. 

Most evenings in our house someone asks: "Anything on TV tonight"? and the answer is almost always: "Nope, just the usual mix of soaps, trashy reality stuff and rubbish game shows". Or something very similar. There might occasionally be a decent film on but then you realise it starts at 11.15 pm or similar and I'm afraid my days of watching the Midnight Movie are long gone.

[Centrepin]

The problem is we have to pay for bbc regardless of if we watch it or not. Other channels need the viewing figures to survive. Switch off and they suffer.

[oowee]

41 minutes ago, Westward said:

The topic is the BBC specifically, but I'm not kidding myself about other TV stations. Channel 4 with their "Right On" PC agenda and sickeningly left wing metropolitan liberal news presenters and correspondents is, if anything, more biased than the BBC. ITV news is marginally better but hardly even handed and the awful unfunny little twerp Tom Bradby who usually presents it has to be the most irritating person on TV. 

Most evenings in our house someone asks: "Anything on TV tonight"? and the answer is almost always: "Nope, just the usual mix of soaps, trashy reality stuff and rubbish game shows". Or something very similar. There might occasionally be a decent film on but then you realise it starts at 11.15 pm or similar and I'm afraid my days of watching the Midnight Movie are long gone.

Do you think that the perception of a stations position left or right will be determined by the relative standpoint of the observer?  I am assuming your use of the phrase 'Right On', is similar to 'Woke' that is , being aware of what is going on in communities. Would you rather your news be reported with limited awareness, blind even, to what is happening. Life is so much simpler if it can be just black and white, them and us. 

[saddler]

The BBC has a legal charter to collect the licence fee, as it is authorised to do so through it's provision of a national unbiased broadcast network over TV, radio, etc.
Understood and accepted...

The problem is, the BBC of recent years has failed to comply with the terms of its own charter, as it is is provably NOT impartial.
The BBC idea of presenting a balanced argument is to interview a Marxist spokes-person and a Socialist party spokes-person, with maybe a few sound bites from the BLM, Muslim Council of the UK, University of Cambridge Centre of Middle Easter Studies Feminist Goat Juggling Dept. & similar speakers = a good percentage of same will likely have a US accent, yet be tenured in the UK.

The BBC needs to have its charter withdrawn immediately.
Let them compete in a free market-place.
Far too much money is wasted by the beeb on vanity projects and minority interest channels at the expense of their core audience, or what should be the core, with dropping viewing/listening figures by the day - sick of the woke agenda and politically driven content across all the platforms...