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Old 03-01-2017, 09:16
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And presumably there's not much going on in Yemen at the moment. It might be a nice place to go on holiday this year.
Eh? There's been plenty of BBC coverage about Yemen. 19 articles on their website in the past month, for example - not exactly a news blackout.
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:17
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That's an opinion and one you seem perfectly happy to use any source as confirmation bias.
Again , you take it that I believe the article or i have used the article to confirm anything
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:18
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Money is an amazing thing, it makes people and companies do things that may or may not be wrong.
I think the BBC operate on a budget of £4.5billion, or near enough. You seem to be suggesting that the entire organisation can be bought for a couple of million?
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:20
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UKIP gets loadsamoney from the EU. Do you think that could make UKIP a pro-EU organisation? Do you think it influences how UKIP views the EU. If not, why should the BBC be influenced by a little research money?
It does seem strange that UKIP accepts money money from the EU, i never understood it myself, apart from maybe they think they will get as much as they can out of the E.U.

Nothing about the BBC surprises me anymore and i think they would go down that route.
Just like our politicians with their cash for questions.
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:21
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No, it's a non-story because it's a piece of shit masquerading as journalism. I thought you hadn't even read it?
I do not remember saying i have not read it, I said I do not read the newspaper or any other newspaper apart from our local one.
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:21
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Is the BBC left wing or right wing this month?
Which ever suits them
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:22
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The usual beeb bashers are active here
The usual beeb supporters are active here as well,
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Old 03-01-2017, 09:28
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The usual beeb supporters are active here as well,
When the accusations are baseless nonsense there will be supporters.
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Old 03-01-2017, 10:49
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Money is an amazing thing, it makes people and companies do things that may or may not be wrong.
So why would a relatively small grant for R&D purposes affect how the BBC reports things? It's not as if they are likely to be funding a joint R&D project solely for their own ends.
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Old 03-01-2017, 11:01
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So why would a relatively small grant for R&D purposes affect how the BBC reports things? It's not as if they are likely to be funding a joint R&D project solely for their own ends.
Perhaps their EU-sponsored drones are going to be programmed to seek out licence evaders, and in return, Nigel Farage gets ridiculed on HIGNFY...
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:26
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There is no "major problem", as the BBC does not have a single viewpoint. It airs many different views.
Yes, it does. From Yvette "I'll take in migrants" Cooper to Diane "Divide and rule" Abbott.

Care to count up how many reports there were of immigrants boating to Europe in the 3 months leading up to June 23rd last year on the BBC? That tells you everything.

For a broadcaster than "oppresses their viewpoint", the BBC seem to give a Farage (and his ilk) a disproprotionate platform to spout his views. He seems to be on Question Time every other week. If that's "oppressing" a viewpoint, I wonder how they treat someone they agree with.
They allow Farage and the like plenty of airtime in the hope they'll say something stupid or outrageous. Trouble is, they talk sense.

But the article isn't true. What these hack journalists do is find some basic information (in this case the widely known fact that the BBC receives funding to conduct technical research for the EU) and then they extrapolate a complete unsupported theory out of it.

Where is their evidence that the technical research project has any influence over the BBC's editorial impartiality? There is none! And yet you believe the theory without appearing to ask any questions about it.
BIB1 - Yes it is. You may not like the Express but that in itself doesn't make it untrue.

BIB2 - see my point above about immigrants boating in to Europe. Why would the BBC shut down all coverage of the immigrants entering Europe as we head for a referendum?
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:31
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Yes, it does. From Yvette "I'll take in migrants" Cooper to Diane "Divide and rule" Abbott.
But they are both Labour MPs. What about all the other voices from other parties? Such as Farage, who you mentioned in the very same post!

Care to count up how many reports there were of immigrants boating to Europe in the 3 months leading up to June 23rd last year on the BBC? That tells you everything.
Does it? What exactly does it tell you?

Why would the BBC shut down all coverage of the immigrants entering Europe as we head for a referendum?
I can't imagine that they did any such thing. It sounds extremely unlikely.
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:40
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I can't imagine that they did any such thing. It sounds extremely unlikely.
How it sounds to you and how it actually played out is clearly very different.
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:43
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How it sounds to you and how it actually played out is clearly very different.
Do you have any proof of what you are saying?
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Old 03-01-2017, 12:45
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Do you have any proof of what you are saying?
That's what I was wondering. It's not something I've ever heard mentioned before.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:20
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Do you have any proof of what you are saying?
Not that I can point to. All I can draw on (unless I go out of my way to lodge a FOI request) is how all reports of migrants entering Europe seemed to completely cease almost immediately after the referendum campaigns kicked off about a year ago. Until then, it was on the BBC news almost every day, multiple times. Even my Romanian immigrant wife noticed and commented on it.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:23
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Yes, it does. From Yvette "I'll take in migrants" Cooper to Diane "Divide and rule" Abbott.
Selecto-vision working well for you?

BIB1 - Yes it is. You may not like the Express but that in itself doesn't make it untrue.
It's a non-story. Simple research grants, as awarded to many other bodies throughout the land. But the useless Daily Express hack has made it into an ersatz story by finding some bloviating buffoons to quote telling us it's a scandal, when it very clearly isn't.

BIB2 - see my point above about immigrants boating in to Europe. Why would the BBC shut down all coverage of the immigrants entering Europe as we head for a referendum?
You've made that up in your head.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:25
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You've made that up in your head.
Nope. Perhaps if you had both eyes open you'd see it too.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:27
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Not that I can point to. All I can draw on (unless I go out of my way to lodge a FOI request) is how all reports of migrants entering Europe seemed to completely cease almost immediately after the referendum campaigns kicked off about a year ago. Until then, it was on the BBC news almost every day, multiple times. Even my Romanian immigrant wife noticed and commented on it.
So it's your perception rather than fact? Did other news outlets continue with the stories?
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:29
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Nope. Perhaps if you had both eyes open you'd see it too.
I'd probably need to borrow your special truther glasses, that apparently filter out anything contrary to your world view.
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:41
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Old 03-01-2017, 13:53
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I'd probably need to borrow your special truther glasses, that apparently filter out anything contrary to your world view.
You might have to take off your BBC faux impartiality glasses before you do that.

Just a weeks viewing across their entire output will tell you otherwise. From game/satire shows choc full of anti UKIP/Brexit stuff to dramas and soaps like Holby City & Silent Witness with their politically and socially slanted agendas.
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:05
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You might have to take off your BBC faux impartiality glasses before you do that.

Just a weeks viewing across their entire output will tell you otherwise. From game/satire shows choc full of anti UKIP/Brexit stuff to dramas and soaps like Holby City & Silent Witness with their politically and socially slanted agendas.
All in your imagination it would seem. Anti-UKIP game shows? Never heard such nonsense!
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:13
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How does Holby City have an agenda?
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Old 03-01-2017, 14:14
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All in your imagination it would seem. Anti-UKIP game shows? Never heard such nonsense!
I wouldn't expect you actually absorb, analyse and critique anything the BBC throw out. After all it's controlled by people like you.
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