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Muad-_-Dib t1_jdqedqq wrote

Reply to comment by BergaGaming in What is going on at the BBC? by Kagedeah

While the overall institution is the BBC the divisions are largely separate and the BBC News division is meant to be bound by its charter to present news of public interest and the BBC being a shit show certainly qualifies.

On paper, it is better than other approaches in which a media company will just flat-out ignore controversies or fuck ups that it has a hand in.

But it also gets used by people to wrongly state that because the BBC criticizes itself now and again that it just be 100% impartial and not at all biased.

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JubalHarshaw23 t1_jdsbx1s wrote

BBC News is most of the time more balanced than the majority of other News Outlets. However, when there are elections or a "Non-Binding" Referendum coming up, they are wildly pro Tory.

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Mainlandempire t1_jdrf9sf wrote

> 100% impartial and not at all biased

Government run news organization is unbiased

Is it the british accent and monotone delivery that confuses people into thinking it's not like every other news organization these days, a joke

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[deleted] t1_jdrjkl3 wrote

BBC News isn't government-run.

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Muad-_-Dib t1_jds7mm1 wrote

Not directly no but in recent years changes were made to the BBC board and since then a disproportionate number of BBC higher-ups have active ties to the Tory party and some have even stated that they joined to intentionally cancel programming that is critical of the Tory party, Brexit and Trump.

There is also the issue of BBC staff admitting that they purposefully allowed biased broadcasts to occur frequently during the 2014 Scottish Independence campaign because BBC staff felt like "We had a duty to defend the integrity of the Union".

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MattN92 t1_jdtfx2r wrote

Only someone who hasn’t followed anything that’s happened there in the last 12 years would say that. Richard Sharp, Laura Kuenssberg, Fiona Bruce, Robbie Gibb, Tim Davie.

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Mainlandempire t1_jdrygq1 wrote

You tell yourself whatever you want

Leadership literally appointed by the state, yo it's not government run!!

Brainwashed completely, hey did you know 1984 was partly inspired by orwell's time at the bbc, little snapple fact

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