are we all getting fed up of the BBC?

M0nica

I do not watch enough tv to offer an opinion, but I am a Radio 3 & 4 listener and I find them excellent. I have recently moved to R3 from Classic FM and the music is so much better and the resneters so much better informed.

so have I moved from classic FM MOnica I really like the morning Radio 3 now, it involves the audience, plays stuff for longer, choices are broad and interesting - it makes an effort to juxtapose themes, you are right about the presenters, and no ads.

I do not watch enough tv to offer an opinion, but I am a Radio 3 & 4 listener and I find them excellent. I have recently moved to R3 from Classic FM and the music is so much better and the resneters so much better informed.

It is in the interest of other broadcasters like the Murdoch media empire to try and manipulate us into giving up on the BBC.

Of course the BBC makes mistakes (as all the media do) and we find it annoying from time to time to be presented with facts and opinions we don't like but I would rather have that than the biased reporting by the Daily Mail and other newspapers (and the Guardian is not exempt from blame) and the attempts by the government of the day (that means both Tories and Labour) to frighten the BBC into being more malleable. A famous media entrepreneur said that it was the BBC which kept the rest of the broadcasters honest and I think he was right. One thing some folk can't understand is that the BBC has a duty of balance in presenting political and other opinions but that does not mean they have to be given equal time: it is noticeable that the BBC has stopped giving much space to climate change deniers - their arguments are so poor that they do not warrant being given equal time.

The Today radio programme Christmas week was excellent, temporarily ditching impartiality, with some interesting guest editors.
One of the guests, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe carried out a memorable, and emotional interview with Andy Murray.

We rarely watch BBC, We have avoided the BBC news for a long time. I record anything i do want to watch so I can zip through the adverts. Husband only watches darts, the odd bit of horse racing and anything Lucy Worsley does😊

Chestnut thanks for enlightening me about the report from the Campaignforcommonsense which provoked the accusation of wokery at the BBC.

Is Mark Lehain, who started this organisation the one who is now Head of Education at the Centre for Policy Studies I wonder?

“Commonsense” is a tricky word, and it’s not neutral but surely depends on one’s preformed ideas and world view.

It starts out being unbelievable, but by the end its just completely bizarre... it's worth sticking with, definitely. Weirdest story ever.

I started watching it but had other things to do so I’m going to watch it on catchup. I did Google it. It looks fascinating.

More reasons to like the BBC.

My Old School, was on tonight at 9pm. True story, you will not believe it. 😜

The point is that they think BLM is extremist
I have heard a BLM activist called Imarn Ayton who is most definitely an extremist!

They are not a trustworthy research organisation
If they can evidence their findings then that will support their claims.

The campaign for common sense is the antithesis of the liberal agenda, so it follows that they would assume the BBC favours a left wing agenda. That’s not what YouGov polls suggest.
yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/trackers/is-the-bbc-more-favourable-towards-labour-the-left-or-the-conservatives-the-right

The point they're making is that the BBC is biased as evidenced in some of their programmes.

The point is that they think BLM is extremist, support Kemi Badenoch, think diversity training is a waste of time and money and thought Truss made a good Foreign Secretary.

They are not a trustworthy research organisation.

At least BBC programmes and films aren’t ruined by constant adverts!

I like a lot of the Drama and documentaries, choose which things appeal. Good value for the licence fee.

volver

The report is by the Campaign for Common Sense (So my red flag's up already, with a name like that.)

I think they may be a wee bit biased.

campaigncommonsense.com/about/

The point they're making is that the BBC is biased as evidenced in some of their programmes.

No the report is not from the Daily Mail.

Chestnut, I see that report is from the Daily Mail.

The report is by the Campaign for Common Sense (So my red flag's up already, with a name like that.)

I think they may be a wee bit biased.

campaigncommonsense.com/about/

Farzanah

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I am getting fed up with wokery on the BBC.

What does that mean?

According to this report the BBC's programmes are infused with a left wing bias which is warping modern Britain.
Woke viewpoints are warping modern Britain

We rarely watch any channel other than BBC (but almost always recorded or iPlayer). Very occasionally we might spot something on another channel and record it. We've just finished catching up on 'Strike' and 'The English', and 'Vienna Blood' is next on the list. Recently rewatched 'Wolf Hall'. Might take a look at 'Mayflies' too.

A lot depends on how much time people spend watching TV I think. If it's on a lot then I doubt anyone would always find something to watch.

I've recorded lots so we've yet to sample some of the delights.

If they're rubbish, there's always the delete button.

Good things on the BBC over Christmas...

The Christmas Lectures with Sue Black
Two Doors Down Christmas Special
The Detectorists
Mayflies
Marie Antoinette (Maybe not historically accurate, but I liked it)

But yes, whoever greenlighted Granite Harbour should be drummed out of the service 😉

AmberSpyglass

His Dark Materials was stunning though! And for kids, the semi-recent adaptation of the Worst Witch books was delightful.

But the Mulefa had legs!! I can never forgive them for that!

(In joke for His Dark Materials fangirls...😀)

The boy the mole the fox and the horse. From the book by Charles Maskery Brilliant!