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You’re conflating “the BBC” with “BBC News”. Given the sheer size and scope of the BBC that’s a mistake. The BBC as a broad organisation is trusted by the publi

by untog 7y ago

You’re conflating “the BBC” with “BBC News”. Given the sheer size and scope of the BBC that’s a mistake. The BBC as a broad organisation is trusted by the public. It's the same mistake you see often when people complain about the license fee then exclusively talk about news coverage. It's really not the same. I’m not sure why a tweet by a reporter would be particularly noteworthy here. By their nature tweets are off the cuff, and I’m not even sure that one is all that inaccurate. “Run by” does not start and stop with the Prime Minister of a country, it’s a reflection of who is responding to a medical crisis from top to bottom.

thu2111 7y ago
What does trust even mean for most of their output? For music radio it's irrelevant. For comedy it's irrelevant. Trust enters the equation when things get serious and there's an aspect of teaching or communication of information involved. The BBC's news output is symptomatic of a deeper set of political biases, it invades everything they do. Anyone can make a music radio station, many documentaries and dramas are produced by the private sector and then simply bought. There's nothing the BBC does that isn't already done just as well by other organisations, which is why they so often fall back on vague assertions of superior levels of trustedness or quality.