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Tim Davie resigns as Director-General of the BBC

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  • #152
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,430 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123990957#Comment_123990957

    I wouldnt disagree. I was just replying to the suggestion that privately owned right wing media needed to be balanced out by a left wing publicly owned outlet. I was not saying that the BBC was left wing per se.

    For one thing because I don’t see women’s rights as being right wing, and nor should fair coverage of Israel/Gaza be right wing, and for another because anyway the BBC should be objective, not balance other media out.

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • #153
    Tell me how
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 23,410 ✭✭✭✭Tell me how


    I think on Friday, GB News did a 1 on 1 sit down interview with Donald Trump.

    I didnt watch it on the channel but have seen various clips on social media.

    3 points came to mind. 1, the interviewer said Trump was clearly a wonderful father. This is the guy who said dubious things about his daughter and was cheating on his wife while his son was being born, 2, the interviewer encouraged him suing the BBC and put words in his mouth saying he was suing them because of they could misrepresent him, they could do that to anyone and 3, they did not mention the Epstein files.

    I would argue that each of these points indicate the interviewer showing a preferential Bias towards Trump and one of those points is using that treatment to target and weaken a British public institution.

    And I would also argue that this style of interviewing is much more likely to have been a consequence of managerial/editorial direction than what happened in the Panorama show.

    Finally I would say that this indicates a stronger Bias being present within the organization of GB News than the BBC.

    But even if im right with all this, what can be done with that? The BBC is held to a higher standard because of its public position but if the core factor is News shows unfairly influencing public understanding then shouldn't there be an equal focus on all parties?

    You could argue the difference us Trump is suing because he was misrepresented, but the story is that Nias exists within the BBC when the reality is there is less bias (I would argue) than in other organizations.



  • #154
    volchitsa
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,430 ✭✭✭✭volchitsa


    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123991869#Comment_123991869

    So based on an interview on a privately-owned channel that you didn’t actually watch in full, you think it’s not all that bad that taxpayer-funded news and Investigative programming has been shown to be biased?

    Is that a principled opinion of yours or is it just because you like what the BBC said about Trump and didn’t like what the GBN guy said?

    If GBN had made a news programme cherry picking quotes from Michele Obama to make it sound like she said white people were all racist (I bet that could be done fairly easily with her recent hair madness), would you think that was fine?

    If not why not?

    "If a woman cannot stand in a public space and say, without fear of consequences, that men cannot be women, then women have no rights at all." Helen Joyce



  • #155
    Tell me how
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    https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/123992019#Comment_123992019

    My point is pretty simple, is bias an issue or is it not?

    It seems you only feel it is an issue because of there being a publicly funded organisation accused of being so.

    For me, if a news channel, which currently has the leading favorite to become next PM as a presenter is showing bias then it is as big an issue as that of which the BBC are accused of.

    If not, you're basically saying it is ok for political individuals to be involved in the communication of a biased narrative to the people under the guise of it being genuine news.



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