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I am finding it difficult to watch the BBC News anymore. The BBC put a negative spin on anything this country does these days and especially Government policy. OK, the Government may not be perfect but the BBC never question anything people say that agrees with their own Liberal elite views. It seems to me they cannot take a neutral view on anything political and are attempting to brainwash us into a certain political way of thinking.
BBC, please just give us the facts and let us make our own minds up.
 
Pretty much every news outlet gives an opinion, and looks for the human slant. I'm with you on the "just give me facts, and let us make our own minds up."
 
I'd be happy if they got rid of most of the rubbish bells & whistles and stuck to one person sitting behind a desk telling me what has happened.
I don't want standing news, or roving reporters standing outside a building, struggling with the elements, telling me the same as what the studio newsreader could tell me.
I don;t want it to be all editorials.
Just give me the the facts of what has happened and I'll infer what that means and decide what to do based on my own analysis.
 
Don't watch BBC news anymore, switched to ITV (mainly because their local news is better as well)
 
I also have switched over to ITV news. Tom Bradley is a breath of fresh air but I mainly went because I could not bear Laura K any more. I don't know if she is left, right or down the middle. I just find her style or reporting hugely irritating. Too much about her.
 
FairwayDodger said:
Supporter of inept government doesn’t like the reporting of the world’s most impartial news organisation. How surprising.
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You are doing it now, you are using your bias against me to colour your reply on the subject. I thought you were a bit more grown up than that.

I don't care if it's the Government , opposition , global warming or whatever, I just want the information so that I can make my own mind up.
 
chrisd said:
Our Laura is so anti Tory it us no longer news reporting to me
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Maybe she is just commenting on how it is - and if that reflects negatively on the Tories then that may actually be because that is just how it is.

So in commenting upon the OBR forecasting of UK economic growth as reported in the Budget yesterday by The Chancellor (so clearly he accepts the numbers) and the forecast that the deficit won't be cleared until 2031 - a mere 16yrs after the Tories originally planned - LK reflects accepted opinion on the numbers by calling it a 'grim outlook' - is that anti-Tory? Or should she leave us sitting with the figures without a clue what they mean - on whether they are good, bad or middling?
 
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Who exactly are the BBC biased towards?

I have heard Tory supporters say they are biased towards the left - Labour supports say they are biased towards the right , Scots say they are biased towards the English , English say biased towards the Scots ?!

Or maybe the truth is they become biased when they report on something that one group don’t like or want to hear -

And then there is the old adage - if you think they are biased why are you watching it ?

For me they seem to report what’s going on - if it’s a negative spin maybe that’s because it’s a negative impact what is happening- vice versa of positive

But I have no doubt it will boil down to people not liking what they hear and it seems to me what they hear is truth and facts
 
Liverpoolphil said:
Who exactly are the BBC biased towards?

I have heard Tory supporters say they are biased towards the left - Labour supports say they are biased towards the right , Scots say they are biased towards the English , English say biased towards the Scots ?!

Or maybe the truth is they become biased when they report on something that one group don’t like or want to hear -

And then there is the old adage - if you think they are biased why are you watching it ?

For me they seem to report what’s going on - if it’s a negative spin maybe that’s because it’s a negative impact what is happening- vice versa of positive

But I have no doubt it will boil down to people not liking what they hear and it seems to me what they hear is truth and facts
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Why do news channel focus on bad news, then chuck in a bit of light hearted good news at the end? Why not do it the other way round? It would be a much better watch. Not that I bother much. It's far too depressing.
 
100% agree with this and I think I made a similar post recently (pretty sure I was ranting about paying this corrupt organisation the mandatory license fee).

Since then I've boycotted all BBC content..... I dont use their websites, radio or TV stations anymore.

I remember at school being taught about propaganda during the war.....to me that is all the BBC are. They are a propaganda tool for the government, nothing more, nothing less......and yet we're all forced to pay for them. Absolute joke.
 
An example of the bias, for those that think otherwise, is the use of negatives when there just isn't any need. In a recent report on economic performance the reporter started with, "despite Brexit..." Why start a positive news report on economic performance with "despite Brexit?"

And in the run up to the last GE, the labelling of John McDonnell a Marxist. The majority of people couldn't define what a Marxist is but to some hearing it, it would be seen as a negative even though they don't know whether he is or not.

A cross-party select committee has already, officially, reprimanded the BBC for biased reporting, but maybe that was biased too.
 
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