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Old 02-01-2017, 11:48
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Confirmation of the leftist BBC attitude from the people who should know, BBC employees themselves !
https://biasedbbc.org/quotes-of-shame/
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Old 02-01-2017, 11:55
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Confirmation of the leftist BBC attitude from the people who should know, BBC employees themselves !
https://biasedbbc.org/quotes-of-shame/
How about you reply in your own words rather than scattergun links to partisan web sites.

What have you seen with your own eyes over a period of time across BBC news and political programming that makes you arrive at the conclusion that the BBC is blatantly oppressing the political viewpoints of the Conservative Party and UKIP.
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Old 02-01-2017, 11:57
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The UKIP viewpoint is suppressed by having it presented all the time by fruitcakes and nut cases like Farage and Nuttall. It makes 5/6 of the population see them as a bad joke.
Farage and Nuttall are the people who currently (or previously) lead UKIP. How can you claim that having them to speak on behalf of UKIP is suppressing the UKIP viewpoint?
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Old 02-01-2017, 11:58
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Confirmation of the leftist BBC attitude from the people who should know, BBC employees themselves !
https://biasedbbc.org/quotes-of-shame/
And I'm sure a website called "biased BBC" is totally neutral and trustworthy and has no agenda.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:00
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Farage and Nuttall are the people who currently (or previously) lead UKIP. How can you claim that having them to speak on behalf of UKIP is suppressing the UKIP viewpoint?
He's taking the piss out of the poster who's claiming UKIP and Tory voices are suppressed even though both appear on the BBC all the time (UKIP significtantly disprpoptionatly to the amount of power they actually have).

For a man whose party only has 1 MP, and is only an MEP himself (who never turns up to do his job) himself, Farage gets a hell of a lot of airtime by the BBC. For a party with pretty much zero power and influence, the BBC give them a big platform for their views.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:07
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He's taking the piss out of the poster who's claiming UKIP and Tory voices are suppressed even though both appear on the BBC all the time (UKIP significtantly disprpoptionatly to the amount of power they actually have).

For a man whose party only has 1 MP, and is only an MEP himself (who never turns up to do his job) himself, Farage gets a hell of a lot of airtime by the BBC. For a party with pretty much zero power and influence, the BBC give them a big platform for their views.
Ah, thank you, that makes sense now. You'll have to forgive me - I'm not terribly good at reading sarcasm in written text.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:09
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Farage and Nuttall are the people who currently (or previously) lead UKIP. How can you claim that having them to speak on behalf of UKIP is suppressing the UKIP viewpoint?
whoosh!
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:30
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The BBC has never been impartial its bias is obvious. Time to end the TV extortion tax
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:32
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The BBC has never been impartial its bias is obvious. Time to end the TV extortion tax
It's bias towards whom?
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:38
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The BBC has never been impartial its bias is obvious. Time to end the TV extortion tax
If it is so obvious how about a few examples from the last week or so. Let's start with the main news and then move onto TV and radio political programming.

If it is so obvious a few examples from each should be a beeeze for you. After all, if such bias is obvious it will span across all of the BBC's output on a daily basis.

What have you personally seen and heard to arrive at the view that the BBC has never been impartial. So much so it is obvious.
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:41
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The BBC has never been impartial its bias is obvious. Time to end the TV extortion tax
"extortion tax"
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:41
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Bias usually means "they report the side of the argument I don't agree with".
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Old 02-01-2017, 12:53
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Bias usually means "they report the side of the argument I don't agree with".
Nutshell!
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Old 02-01-2017, 13:21
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No, I don't really want any kind of bias, but, right now, I prefer their brand to that hiding behind the false face of tolerance, whilst creaming off the money and furthering a questionable agenda. The national broadcaster should not be going anywhere near someone like Common Purpose.

You can't improve a society if you exploit the Chatham House Rule.
Basically, you're against any kind of diversity or openness if discussion. In other words, maintenance of the conservative, right wing status quo, with a tin foil hat twist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Purpose_UK

"Writing in The Guardian, Roy Greenslade described the Mail coverage of Common Purpose in general, and the central focus on Sir David Bell in particular, as "a classic example of conspiracist innuendo" and went on that "through a series of leaps of logic and phoney 'revelations' of Bell's publicly acknowledged positions, the articles persistently insinuate that he has been up to no good." This opinion was shared in an article in the New Statesman by Peter Wilby. Also in The Guardian, Michael White acknowledged that, "anti-establishment bodies should be as much fair game for accountability as those of the old establishment", but said: "I couldn't help thinking as I read it that the analysis itself is a bit of a conspiracy. Delete 'Common Purpose' throughout and insert 'Jew', 'Etonian' or 'Freemason' and you'd rightly feel uneasy.""
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Old 02-01-2017, 13:42
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Basically, you're against any kind of diversity or openness if discussion. In other words, maintenance of the conservative, right wing status quo, with a tin foil hat twist.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Purpose_UK

"Writing in The Guardian, Roy Greenslade described the Mail coverage of Common Purpose in general, and the central focus on Sir David Bell in particular, as "a classic example of conspiracist innuendo" and went on that "through a series of leaps of logic and phoney 'revelations' of Bell's publicly acknowledged positions, the articles persistently insinuate that he has been up to no good." This opinion was shared in an article in the New Statesman by Peter Wilby. Also in The Guardian, Michael White acknowledged that, "anti-establishment bodies should be as much fair game for accountability as those of the old establishment", but said: "I couldn't help thinking as I read it that the analysis itself is a bit of a conspiracy. Delete 'Common Purpose' throughout and insert 'Jew', 'Etonian' or 'Freemason' and you'd rightly feel uneasy.""
Yeah. You've got it. You probably understand what's going on better by finding something on the Internet, rather than working for a council that insisted on positioning CP members in jobs, who were put there with an objective of expanding the cult and to enforce CP-type schemes and to give contracts to CP friends and to steal money and land, and give it to CP-trained developers, and then appoint 'independent' CP-trained investigators (and, you know, it probably really helps if the head of the police investigating you was appointed by you).

It's probably far more plausible that I'm psychic, and that's why Mishcon de Reya's website was exactly what I was expecting. Not just that there's this relentless pattern...
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:18
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The BBC editorial staff is saturated with Guardianistas. If there is any internal bias in an organisation it is nigh impossible to purge it without some government intervention, which then leads "impartial broadcasters" to claim government oppression.

"We must maintain our neutrality!" the broadcasters squeel in delight.

As they caress their EU flags and slip into their Socialist slippers.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:23
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The BBC editorial staff is saturated with Guardianistas. If there is any internal bias in an organisation it is nigh impossible to purge it without some government intervention, which then leads "impartial broadcasters" to claim government oppression.

"We must maintain our neutrality!" the broadcasters squeel in delight.

As they caress their EU flags and slip into their Socialist slippers.
You perceive bias because you're being influenced by your own political beliefs.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:25
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https://biasedbbc.org/blog/2016/12/3...en-thread-131/
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:28
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I haven't looked, but I've a feeling that website might be bias.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:29
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A partisan rant from a partisan site... you may as well slip the words "liberal metropolitan elite" in than link to a site called biased BBC to show the depth of your bias.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:30
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dave666 - I've looked at that article. Leaving aside the argument that a website called "biasedbbc" is unlikely to be a balanced and impartial one, can you explain to me what this bit means please?

"Curiously the BBC seems unconcerned about the Russian spy, Snowden, who was aided and abetted by the Guardian, and the BBC itself, to attack US, and Western , intelligence and security, doing them enormous damage."

In what way did the BBC aid and abet the alleged attack on the US and Western intelligence and security?
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:32
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Are you unable to form your own opinion based on what you have seen? Why is it you need a web site to tell you how to think? A web site that does not have to adhere to the same impartiality rules as UK broadcasters.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:50
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Hilarious link! Impartial, much? Hoist by your own petard.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:55
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No time to end pointless threads especially when the source is the joke of a newspaper Daily Express.
But if the source is right and the article is true, then it do not matter where the story comes from. It is not about the source or the fact it comes from the Express, you do and other pro-BBCers do not like it because it once again shows what the BBC is.

BTY, i do not read the Express, i do not read any newspaper apart from a local one.
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Old 02-01-2017, 14:56
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Both the Mail and Express under fire for 'toxic' and 'nasty' Brexit front pages.

https://www.joe.co.uk/news/both-the-...nt-pages/91258

Daily Express Forced To Remove List Of Things We’d ‘Get Back’ If We Left The EU Because It Wasn’t True

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entr...b07cb01dcf7871

Three newspapers to be reported to Ipso over 'inaccurate' EU stories

https://www.theguardian.com/media/gr...ate-eu-stories

Press’ hateful 8 stories from Brexit debate

https://infacts.org/hateful_eight/

The Express corrects over a third of “facts” in this pro-Brexit piece published before the vote
It was forced to remove the entire article, which was riddled with misinformation.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics...published-vote

SIX LIES TOLD BY NIGEL FARAGE IN EXPRESS ARTICLE

https://tabloidcorrections.wordpress...press-article/
the difference here is that people can choose to pay for any newspaper and for sky, something that is difficult to do with the BBC.
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