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Topic: Appalling standard of BBC Journalism
Posted By: sgsmorgan
Subject: Appalling standard of BBC Journalism
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 11:49am
Here's a couple of paragraphs from the current BBC Online piece about "Expect the Unexpected"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/42675134" rel="nofollow - http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/rugby-union/42675134

"Star-studded Toulon, who are sixth in the French Top 14 with seven wins from 15 starts, will be up against a team that has won six of their 13 Pro14 games this term.

Toulon can overhaul second-placed Bath in the group against the winless Italians.

Having won four of their five European games so far - the only defeat coming in Toulon - Owens says "of course" he and his team-mates are motivated to become the first Welsh team to reach the quarter-finals since Cardiff Blues in 2011-12."


Who edits this stuff and checks the info?




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Posted By: sospanman
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 11:59am
Yes, I saw that as well. I think the reference in the first sentence is to Benetton whom they play today.
Poor writing though.


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Posted By: Ffidel Bennett
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 1:29pm
Andy Howell, in yesterday's Mule, seemed to think that the Scarlets Select side was coached by  Euro Evans -probably a Freudian slip.
The previous week they printed that Davies scored 2 tries as did Williams  - well it's only a small matter of the scorers being 2 different Davies and 2 different Williams - a mistake anyone who knew nothing about the Scarlets and rugby could make - especially when they've got a lot of boring tries to record.  
But if you think that the coverage of rugby by these two "institutions" is bad you should be grateful that it's not at the level of their coverage of overseas politics which only reflect the appalling bias of their bosses.


Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 1:39pm
The BT promotion of next weekend’s coverage, before the coverage of Toulon v Treviso, included, “and in the evening, from France, Benetton v Bath”.🙈

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Posted By: sgsmorgan
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 2:16pm
Originally posted by Eastern outpost Eastern outpost wrote:

The BT promotion of next weekend’s coverage, before the coverage of Toulon v Treviso, included, “and in the evening, from France, Benetton v Bath”.🙈


yup...wondered whereabouts in SE France, Treviso was ;-)


Posted By: Dafen Boy
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 2:48pm
Originally posted by sgsmorgan sgsmorgan wrote:

Originally posted by Eastern outpost Eastern outpost wrote:

The BT promotion of next weekend’s coverage, before the coverage of Toulon v Treviso, included, “and in the evening, from France, Benetton v Bath”.🙈


yup...wondered whereabouts in SE France, Treviso was ;-)

No wonder people voted for Brexit...Wink


Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 3:18pm
BBC is a joke

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Posted By: Ffidel Bennett
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 4:32pm
BBC Wales can't even stand Welsh working class accents. That's the only conclusion I can take from the presenters of their documentary "The Miners Who Made Us" Will Millard is a middle class Englishman, brought up in the Fens. He's probably a very nice bloke but surely they can find someone who has more  connection with subject matter and who has no difficulty with the pronunciation of our place names. The programme even had a stand-up comic of middle-eastern origin and brought up in Cardiff, whose task was to do a turn in front of a typical Miner's Welfare Hall Audience. Again a nice pleasant bloke but were they really that desperate to fill the time or did they just want to be seen as multiracial and inclusive and bygger the relevance?  There are plenty of passionate Welshmen with a deep interest and understanding of the subject matter. Were they ruled out because of their accents or weren't they photogenic enough.


Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:11pm
Originally posted by Ffidel Bennett Ffidel Bennett wrote:

BBC Wales can't even stand Welsh working class accents. That's the only conclusion I can take from the presenters of their documentary "The Miners Who Made Us" Will Millard is a middle class Englishman, brought up in the Fens. He's probably a very nice bloke but surely they can find someone who has more  connection with subject matter and who has no difficulty with the pronunciation of our place names. The programme even had a stand-up comic of middle-eastern origin and brought up in Cardiff, whose task was to do a turn in front of a typical Miner's Welfare Hall Audience. Again a nice pleasant bloke but were they really that desperate to fill the time or did they just want to be seen as multiracial and inclusive and bygger the relevance?  There are plenty of passionate Welshmen with a deep interest and understanding of the subject matter. Were they ruled out because of their accents or weren't they photogenic enough.

I try not to talk about the BBC anymore they are so appalling and their output an absolute embarassment


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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:20pm
The BBC is far from perfect, but I'm a bit uneasy about all this criticism dealing with rather trivial matters in the great scheme of things.

We have had a relentless campaign against the BBC from the right-wing press (Murdoch's Sun and Times, the Telegraph and - most comically - the Hitler-supproting Daily Mail).

I do feel you guys would do well to ask yourselves whether you are doing the work of the right-wing ranters for them? Have you been brainwashed, without even noticing?

(My pet BBC gripe concerns the right-wing bias of commentators such as Kuenssberg, Andrew Marr, Andrew Neil etc. It seems to me that the corporation has been cowed and castrated by the ranters, so that little attention is given to left-ish views. Marr regularly invites people onto his sofa along these lines: a right-wing ranter (sometimes from UKIP); a middle of the road Tory; and a Blairite anti-Corbyn Labour person. Balance? I think not!)


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Posted By: CTMassive
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:27pm
I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation


Posted By: Eastern outpost
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:40pm
I thought Marr was very pro Labour.

At times, it’s a battle as to who runs the country - Parliament or the media?

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Posted By: Dafen Boy
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:42pm
Originally posted by Eastern outpost Eastern outpost wrote:

I thought Marr was very pro Labour.

At times, it’s a battle as to who runs the country - Parliament or the media?

The recent US Election should tell you the answer to that


Posted By: Huwbach
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:45pm
Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

The BBC is far from perfect, but I'm a bit uneasy about all this criticism dealing with rather trivial matters in the great scheme of things.

We have had a relentless campaign against the BBC from the right-wing press (Murdoch's Sun and Times, the Telegraph and - most comically - the Hitler-supproting Daily Mail).

I do feel you guys would do well to ask yourselves whether you are doing the work of the right-wing ranters for them? Have you been brainwashed, without even noticing?

(My pet BBC gripe concerns the right-wing bias of commentators such as Kuenssberg, Andrew Marr, Andrew Neil etc. It seems to me that the corporation has been cowed and castrated by the ranters, so that little attention is given to left-ish views. Marr regularly invites people onto his sofa along these lines: a right-wing ranter (sometimes from UKIP); a middle of the road Tory; and a Blairite anti-Corbyn Labour person. Balance? I think not!)


I'm with you comrade.


Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 5:50pm
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation

I agree with this, though I do also think neil and kunssberg, she is very tabloid as is newsnight and others are shall we say more inclined to peddle the corporate line but neil is far cleverer he appears to play both sides. ps did anyone notice that due to bbcs insane liberal political correctness all men were banned from asking the main questions at llanelli's question time, dimbleby didnt tell us until the very last minute off camera


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Posted By: Huwbach
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 6:43pm
Political hot potato hits SF. I think the BBC gives the impression it leans towards liberal thinking despite the fact most of its commentators lean middle right - particularly when it comes to doing the right thing and heavy handed political correctness. Do not underestimate the BBC machine and its careful planning. Generally I prefer BBC programming but am aware of the underlying currents.

When it comes to sports journalism there's no excuse for getting it wrong - a lot of us could do better.


Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:28pm
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation

 
As observations go, my advice to you is: "Should have gone to Specsavers"!


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Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:32pm
Originally posted by Eastern outpost Eastern outpost wrote:

I thought Marr was very pro Labour.

At times, it’s a battle as to who runs the country - Parliament or the media?

You could not be more wrong - he may have been, back in his student days, but by now he has drifted - or rushed - to the right. Just look at two things:

1. The 'balance' on the newspaper review - as I pointed out before, week after week there is a bias to the right. Once in a blue moon someone like Owen Jones is allowed on.

2. The softball questioning of even the most obnoxious right-wing idiots... 

I can't bear to watch it any more - I was a regular until 2-3 years ago.


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Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:33pm
Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

Originally posted by Eastern outpost Eastern outpost wrote:

I thought Marr was very pro Labour.

At times, it’s a battle as to who runs the country - Parliament or the media?

You could not be more wrong - he may have been, back in his student days, but by now he has drifted - or rushed - to the right. Just look at two things:

1. The 'balance' on the newspaper review - as I pointed out before, week after week there is a bias to the right. Once in a blue moon someone like Owen Jones is allowed on.

2. The softball questioning of even the most obnoxious right-wing idiots... 

I can't bear to watch it any more - I was a regular until 2-3 years ago.

They softball the mega rich every time I agree


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Posted By: CTMassive
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:37pm
Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation

 
As observations go, my advice to you is: "Should have gone to Specsavers"!


http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/130814102945-BBCBiasOliverLathamfc.pdf" rel="nofollow - http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/130814102945-BBCBiasOliverLathamfc.pdf
If you aren't bothered to read, here's their summary
" The BBC should ask itself is it prepared to admit the possibility of the existence of an institutionally left-of-centre bias? ....."

I guess the Centre for Policy Study need to go to SpecSaverts too? TongueLOL


Posted By: CTMassive
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:43pm
To be fair aber, I think you're confusing the views(/bias) of the BBC's  political commentators e.g Vine, Soppel etc which of course can be right biased on occassion with their policies on WHO gets the new jobs and WHAT their agendas should be, this is patently clear, as in the report; the two CAN be mutually exclusive.


Posted By: Ffidel Bennett
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 7:52pm
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation

Half-right here CT but it's not leftist-liberal but neo-liberal, the liberal aspect being in the economy where anything goes in the pursuit of profit and the accumulation of capital which benefits only the 1%. If you thought Blair was left wing then you probably think that the BBC is left wing. But Blair was also Bush's poodle as he tried to reassert the USA's role as dominant world power under the excuse of war on terror. The BBC lapped up Bush and Blair's lies on weapons of mass destruction which cost over a million Iraqi lives and the count is still increasing.  However Trump goes a little too far for the BBC as he's much too crude to cover with a thin veneer of respectability. They'd have much preferred to have that other lying war criminal Hilary Clinton in charge. Ignorant though most of the "despicables" are  they still knew enough to reject her. But what a choice they had - between 2 representatives of the 1%.


Posted By: Ffidel Bennett
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 8:03pm
CT 

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a free-market British policy think tank whose goal is to promote coherent and practical public policy, to "roll back the state," reform public services, 
Founders‎: ‎ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keith_Joseph" rel="nofollow - Location‎: ‎ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" rel="nofollow -
Director‎: ‎ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Knox" rel="nofollow - So a totally neutral body there CT?


Posted By: CTMassive
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 8:19pm
More sound than "Specsavers" tho?

Hey ...... WE WON!!


Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 8:20pm
Theres a school of thought that thinks political correctness was the invention of the elite 0.001% controllers of the biggets corporations who wanted easy access open borders to all nations to enable them to push down wages and have the option to move across borders to avoid red tape rules regulations tax and vat. Hence you end up with a firm like Uber who are not regulated are not actually taxi firms, who pay nothing to local government are not criminally checked drivers no need for taxi knowledge either...All invented in silicone valley, get given a dutch name Uber because they are registered in holland to avoid all VAT too...60 billion turnover and no vat lol you couldnt make it up. Then of course the corporations pay politicians like clinton $250,000 a speech? They then use paid politicans as their mouth pieces....to stick to the script which is simply this, anyone who questions the global takeover and open border policy gets labelled a racist and is destroyed. 

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Posted By: Huwbach
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 8:23pm
Originally posted by Ffidel Bennett Ffidel Bennett wrote:

CT 

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Done like a kipper.


Posted By: CTMassive
Date Posted: 14 January 2018 at 9:16pm
This one made me laugh:
"“It’s a bit like walking into a Sunday meeting of the Flat Earth Society. As they discuss great issues of the day, they discuss them from the point of view that the earth is flat.
“If someone says, ‘No, no, no, the earth is round!’, they think this person is an extremist. That’s what it’s like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.”

Jeff Randall (ex Business Editor in BBC 2001-05 & Sky 2007-14)

But hey, what does he know Confused Bloody Tory LOL


Posted By: roy munster
Date Posted: 15 January 2018 at 12:05am
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

This one made me laugh:
"“It’s a bit like walking into a Sunday meeting of the Flat Earth Society. As they discuss great issues of the day, they discuss them from the point of view that the earth is flat.
“If someone says, ‘No, no, no, the earth is round!’, they think this person is an extremist. That’s what it’s like for someone with my right-of-centre views working inside the BBC.”

Jeff Randall (ex Business Editor in BBC 2001-05 & Sky 2007-14)

But hey, what does he know Confused Bloody Tory LOL

bbc is an extremely stupid place but that would be forgivable if they werent producing endless bile


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Posted By: mr geraint
Date Posted: 15 January 2018 at 6:40am
The BBC forces people like Sky to raise their game.

And trains almost every behind-the-screen (and a lot of in front of screen) talent in the country.

It is about as left-wing as New Labour, at most, and gets a lot of complaints that it ducks up to the right-wing establishment.

You should listen to the News Quiz from last week. The BBC regulars are doing what satire should (scrutinising those in power) just like they did under a Labour government. Meanwhile the Daily Mail journalist toes the Tory party line so hard it hurts.

That’s the standard of journalism an independent BBC protects us from having. Just look abroad and compare.


Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 15 January 2018 at 9:17am
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

Originally posted by aber-fan aber-fan wrote:

Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

I think everone's gripe with the BBC is their leftist liberal policies and take on everything on all media, not least of all radio, website as well as TV platfrom. Sky are the ones usually accused of right wing bias. Not having a pop Aber, just an observation

 
As observations go, my advice to you is: "Should have gone to Specsavers"!


http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/130814102945-BBCBiasOliverLathamfc.pdf" rel="nofollow - http://www.cps.org.uk/files/reports/original/130814102945-BBCBiasOliverLathamfc.pdf
If you aren't bothered to read, here's their summary
" The BBC should ask itself is it prepared to admit the possibility of the existence of an institutionally left-of-centre bias? ....."

I guess the Centre for Policy Study need to go to SpecSaverts too? TongueLOL

So you think the CPS is a non-biased institution, do you?

You should have done your research - you need go no further than Wikipedia:

The Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) is a free-market  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom" rel="nofollow - British   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy_studies" rel="nofollow - policy   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_tanks" rel="nofollow - think tank  whose goal is to promote coherent and practical public policy, to "roll back the state," reform public services, support communities, and challenge threats to Britain’s independence. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies#cite_note-Denham2001-1" rel="nofollow - [1]  Although identified as non-partisan, the Centre has strong historical links to the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservative_Party_%28UK%29" rel="nofollow - Conservative Party .

It was co-founded by Conservatives  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Keith_Joseph" rel="nofollow - Sir Keith Joseph ,  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_Sherman" rel="nofollow - Alfred Sherman  and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Thatcher" rel="nofollow - Margaret Thatcher https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies#cite_note-telegraph.co.uk-2" rel="nofollow - [2]  in 1974 to champion  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_liberalism" rel="nofollow - economic liberalism  in Britain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies#cite_note-Denham2001-1" rel="nofollow - [1]  and has since played a global role in the dissemination of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_market_economics" rel="nofollow - free market economics  along  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monetarist" rel="nofollow - monetarist  and  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberal" rel="nofollow - neoliberal  lines. Its policy proposals are claimed to be based on the principles of individual choice and responsibility. It also asserts that it prioritises the concepts of duty, family, liberty, and the rule of law. The CPS states that it has a goal of serving as "the champion of the small state." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centre_for_Policy_Studies#cite_note-Denham2001-1" rel="nofollow - [1]


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“You cannot reason a man out of what he never reasoned himself into.” (Jonathan Swift)


Posted By: Ffidel Bennett
Date Posted: 15 January 2018 at 9:28am
Having the occasional comedian on the News Quiz hardly makes up for the stream of establishment bias broadcast endlessly on so called serious programmes and the News Quiz is one of the few programmes I still make an effort to listen to particularly when I know Jeremy Hardy, Lloyd Langford or Mark Steel are on it.
The most dangerous aspect of BBC coverage is the relentless demonization of Russia and Vladimir Putin, which can only be a prelude to military conflict. When was the last time you heard anything positive about Russia, Syria, Cuba, Venezuela. Iran and recently China ?(as Russia and China became closer to protect themselves from the real danger from the USA and NATO)  
If you like satire  then have a look at James Corbett's 9/11  video  where he examines some of the many contradictions of 9/11, something the any investigative journalist worth his salt would have been looking into in detail. It's less than 5minutes and can be found on -                

https://www.youtube.com/watch ?v=zbsZjW-m0x8


Posted By: aber-fan
Date Posted: 15 January 2018 at 9:50am
Originally posted by CTMassive CTMassive wrote:

To be fair aber, I think you're confusing the views(/bias) of the BBC's  political commentators e.g Vine, Soppel etc which of course can be right biased on occassion with their policies on WHO gets the new jobs and WHAT their agendas should be, this is patently clear, as in the report; the two CAN be mutually exclusive.

I'm sure you're right.

The current chair of the BBC Board is: 

Sir David Cecil Clementi (born 25 February 1949) is an English business executive and a former  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deputy_Governor_of_the_Bank_of_England" rel="nofollow - Deputy Governor  of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_of_England" rel="nofollow - Bank of England . He is currently Chairman of the BBC.

Clementi holds a number of board positions including Chairman of International Payments business World First and Vice Chairman of Investment Manager Ruffer Group. He has held numerous other positions including Chairman of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_plc" rel="nofollow - Prudential plc , one of Britain's largest insurance companies, non-executive director on the board of governors of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Tinto_Group" rel="nofollow - Rio Tinto Group  and until June 2015 was Chairman of Virgin Money, seeing the business through its IPO. In March 2008, he was announced as Warden of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_College" rel="nofollow - Winchester College and was Master of the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercers_Company" rel="nofollow - Mercers Company .


I'm sure you will be able to point out to me how this CV makes Clementi a dyed in the wool leftie.


He was preceded by Rona Fairhead (last chair of the BBC Trust):

Fairhead moved to the  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Times_Group" rel="nofollow - Financial Times Group  (a subsidiary of Pearson) in 2006 as chief executive. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Fairhead#cite_note-Debretts-1" rel="nofollow - [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Fairhead#cite_note-Guardian_I-6" rel="nofollow - [6] She oversaw the sale of several of the group's other titles during her tenure. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rona_Fairhead#cite_note-Guardian_II-4" rel="nofollow - [4]  She has also served as a  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-executive_director" rel="nofollow - non-executive director  on the boards of several large corporations, including  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PepsiCo" rel="nofollow - PepsiCo , and is a former Director of  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSBC_Holdings" rel="nofollow - HSBC Holdings  and former "business ambassador" for  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Trade_%26_Investment" rel="nofollow - UK Trade & Investment .


Clearly, another closet commie.


And so on...










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