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Bias on the BBC

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GracesGranMK2 Fri 02-Jun-17 10:52:03

A song describing Prime Minister Theresa May as a "liar" and calling the country "broken" has become the most downloaded on iTunes.

However, siting bias, the BBC will not play Captain Ska's anti-Tory song Liar Liar. It is set to be the highest new entry on the UK Official Singles Chart this week, but impartiality rules are being sited to stop it being given air time.

I cannot believe it is anything but the normal partiality of the BBC towards the Conservative Party stopping the thoughts of the young being heard.

It's catchy too.

vampirequeen Fri 02-Jun-17 17:09:56

The media is owned by a few very rich people or companies with their own agendas. Nothing to do with reporting the facts.

The Times, Sunday Times, The Scum and the Scum on Sunday - Rupert Murdoch. Billionaire. Lives in US.

The Daily Mail, The Mail on Sunday and Metro - Lord Rothermere. Billionaire. Lives in France.
Non-domiciled for UK tax

The Daily Mirror, The Sunday Mirror, The People, Daily Record, Sunday Mail - Trinity Mirror PLC. Public Limited Company.

The Guardian, The Observer - Scott Trust Ltd. A company with purpose “to secure Guardian’s independence”

The Telegraph, The Sunday Telegraph - David and Frederick Barclay. Billionaires. Live on private island near Sark.

The Independent, i, Independent on Sunday - Alexander and Evgeny Lebedev. Alexander is billionaire, ex-KGB and lives in Russia. Evgeny lives in UK

The Daily Express, The Sunday Express, The Daily Star, The Daily Star Sunday - Richard Desmond. Billionaire pornographer.

vampirequeen Fri 02-Jun-17 17:14:14

Music and Art have traditionally been used to inform the public and challenge the status quo. I'm sure out there on the ether somewhere is a song that's equally scathing of JC. It's just that no one is buying it grin

varian Fri 02-Jun-17 17:18:08

That is a useful and accurate list vq

Hardly surprising that the readers of most of these papers were so easily fooled into voting for brexit and will probably be fooled again next week into supporting the Theresa May party.

The power of these foreign and tax exile billionaires is truly frightning. It makes a mockery of our so-called democracy.

vampirequeen Fri 02-Jun-17 17:20:52

I didn't say which are suspected tax avoiders in case I got done for libel but you can easily find out online or just make a good guess grin

paddyann Fri 02-Jun-17 23:46:12

Anniebach think if you look back you'll discover there were murderers on both sides of the divide and in the British army .even then some of us could see that there were faults on ALL sides.As for a united Ireland ,well it makes sense doesn't it? With Brexit it might even happen

daphnedill Sat 03-Jun-17 00:11:10

PS. Lebedev sold the Independent last year.

Anniebach Sat 03-Jun-17 08:21:42

paddyann, I KNOW there were faults both sides, living in a South Wales mining valley one lived with families who left Ireland to wotk in the pits. You obviously support forcing UK citizens out of the UK, and my son in laws step fsther comes from Irelsnd, plus my godfather was from .Ireland and I worked in a RC convent, possibly my knowledge of the history of Ireland is far wider thsn you judge it to be.

vampirequeen Sat 03-Jun-17 09:22:38

Sorry i is now owned by Johnston Press.

I can't find who owns the Independent. All websites still say Lebedev. Who owns it now?

daphnedill Sat 03-Jun-17 09:31:57

Apologies!I assumed that the Indy had been sold along with the "i".

There's a link on the Indy website to the Evening Standard, which is definitely owned by the Lebedev brothers, so you're almost certainly right. I wonder how many people still read it since it stopped producing a print edition.