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> the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly. You may want to double check who's in charge of the

> the Government does not get to control the national TV like it does when the one who pays is it directly. You may want to double check who's in charge of the BBC. The Director-General Tim Davie is a former deputy chairman of a local Conservative party and Conservative councillor candidate. Not that bad, perhaps. But the Chairman of the BBC, Richard Sharp, was a banker at JP Morgan and Goldman Sachs, advisor to Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak, and has donated more than £400,000 to the Tory party. The Conservative party does control the BBC, selecting the leadership according to their political aims or whichever donor has thrown them the most money recently. And the BBC budget and license fee are decided by the government, of course the government can cut funding at any time... None of this is to say that the BBC is as bad as the worst of state controlled media, just that there are obvious elements of government control, and having one model of funding over another doesn't really change that - the government can still squeeze funding whenever it wants to (and they have done this before).

dankboys 5y ago
If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1], despite the Conservative party being down the middle on Brexit. 75% of comedians are explicitly left wing [2] Anecdotally, the sidebar of BBC News UK edition is littered with articles attempting to argue that any inequality between sex or race of people in a unvaried analysis is indicative of system X-ism. Very rarely do people leave the BBC and join right-of-centre media - more often than not they join left wing private organisations. [1] https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1549752/Abolish-the-BBC-licence-fee-cancel-boycott-gb-news-licence-fee-over-75s https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1549752/Abo... [2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047049/Seventy-five-cent-BBC-comedy-gigs-handed-brazenly-left-wing-comedians.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047049/Seventy-fiv...
- btdmaster 5y ago
  The first paper[1] comes from authors of News-Watch[2], which from the website seems to have a clear agenda against the BBC. This is at least mildly ironic. [1] https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/brusselsbroadcastingcorporation.pdf https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/brusselsbroadcastin... [2] https://news-watch.co.uk https://news-watch.co.uk I could not find the source (and methodology) used for the second article.
  - dankboys 5y ago
    I don’t really know what to say, except that a pressure group might do studies on the topics it cares about? Consider this: until 2020, for many years (at least 8) the Guardian was the most purchased paper by the BBC[1] [1] https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/14/bbc-guardian-most-popular-newspaper https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/14/bbc-gu...
- user-the-name 5y ago
  Why? Because they have not had enough time to try to change it yet. But it is happening: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-mash-report-axed-bbc-leftwing-bias-nish-kumar-b923708.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-mash-report-axed-bbc-...
  - dankboys 5y ago
    The Mash Report is the perfect example: a TV show that was significantly[1] (20%) less popular than shows in that time slot but approved because it sent the correct message [1]https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/21/37117/sluggish_ratings_for_the_mash_report https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/21/37117/sluggish_rat...
    - drcongo 5y ago
      And got axed.
- M2Ys4U 5y ago
  >If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1] The Express should be considered more of a fiction publication than a reliable newspaper. It's notorious for making stuff up, especially when it comes to Brexit.
  - dankboys 5y ago
    Why not engage with the study instead? Sorry it’s not a link to The New European
dbbk 5y ago
Tim Davie has literally no editorial control though.

dankboys 5y ago

If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1], despite the Conservative party being down the middle on Brexit. 75% of comedians are explicitly left wing [2] Anecdotally, the sidebar of BBC News UK edition is littered with articles attempting to argue that any inequality between sex or race of people in a unvaried analysis is indicative of system X-ism. Very rarely do people leave the BBC and join right-of-centre media - more often than not they join left wing private organisations. [1] https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1549752/Abolish-the-BBC-licence-fee-cancel-boycott-gb-news-licence-fee-over-75s https://www.express.co.uk/comment/expresscomment/1549752/Abo... [2] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047049/Seventy-five-cent-BBC-comedy-gigs-handed-brazenly-left-wing-comedians.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9047049/Seventy-fiv...

btdmaster 5y ago
The first paper[1] comes from authors of News-Watch[2], which from the website seems to have a clear agenda against the BBC. This is at least mildly ironic. [1] https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/brusselsbroadcastingcorporation.pdf https://www.civitas.org.uk/content/files/brusselsbroadcastin... [2] https://news-watch.co.uk https://news-watch.co.uk I could not find the source (and methodology) used for the second article.
- dankboys 5y ago
  I don’t really know what to say, except that a pressure group might do studies on the topics it cares about? Consider this: until 2020, for many years (at least 8) the Guardian was the most purchased paper by the BBC[1] [1] https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/14/bbc-guardian-most-popular-newspaper https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2012/aug/14/bbc-gu...
user-the-name 5y ago
Why? Because they have not had enough time to try to change it yet. But it is happening: https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-mash-report-axed-bbc-leftwing-bias-nish-kumar-b923708.html https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/the-mash-report-axed-bbc-...
- dankboys 5y ago
  The Mash Report is the perfect example: a TV show that was significantly[1] (20%) less popular than shows in that time slot but approved because it sent the correct message [1]https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/21/37117/sluggish_ratings_for_the_mash_report https://www.chortle.co.uk/news/2017/07/21/37117/sluggish_rat...
  - drcongo 5y ago
    And got axed.
M2Ys4U 5y ago
>If this is the case, why did the BBC vote 5 to 1 in favour of Remain[1] The Express should be considered more of a fiction publication than a reliable newspaper. It's notorious for making stuff up, especially when it comes to Brexit.
- dankboys 5y ago
  Why not engage with the study instead? Sorry it’s not a link to The New European

dbbk 5y ago

Tim Davie has literally no editorial control though.