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> BBC is anything other than the broadcast media wing of the Guardian Citation needed. Is the BBC run by ex-Guardian people? No: "the controversial appointmen

> BBC is anything other than the broadcast media wing of the Guardian Citation needed. Is the BBC run by ex-Guardian people? No: "the controversial appointment of Rishi Sunak’s ex-boss and Conservative Party donor Richard Sharp to the influential role of BBC chair. ... There are also concerns about the appointment of BBC director general Tim Davie, who stood as a councillor for the Conservative Party in 1993 and 1994 and was deputy chairman of the Hammersmith and Fulham Conservative Party in the 1990s." https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-open-letter-to-the-bbc/ https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/an-open-letter-to-th... So, what part of your opinion is grounded in fact?

gadders 4y ago
That's not a great article. He doesn't even realise that Rod Liddle is a Social Democrat and was previously in the Labour Party, and Piers Morgan was editor for the Daily Mirror and very much not of the right. However, my point wasn't that there is a sharing of employees between the Guardian and the BBC, more that they both reflect the same bien pensant North London left wing orthodoxy - Brexit bad, immigration good, climate change an apocalypse etc etc.
- SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
  And are you going to address who they do share employees with? It's a party that's not left-wing. That's factual. The rest "not a great article", "North London left wing orthodoxy", and "BBC is insufficiently pro-Brexit" is vague, feelings-based not fact-based.
  - gadders 4y ago
    The BBC also had Gavyn Davies as a chairman.
    - SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
      "Gavyn Davies ... is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies So this ended 19 years ago. I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of this historical anecdote to what's currently true?

gadders 4y ago

That's not a great article. He doesn't even realise that Rod Liddle is a Social Democrat and was previously in the Labour Party, and Piers Morgan was editor for the Daily Mirror and very much not of the right. However, my point wasn't that there is a sharing of employees between the Guardian and the BBC, more that they both reflect the same bien pensant North London left wing orthodoxy - Brexit bad, immigration good, climate change an apocalypse etc etc.

SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
And are you going to address who they do share employees with? It's a party that's not left-wing. That's factual. The rest "not a great article", "North London left wing orthodoxy", and "BBC is insufficiently pro-Brexit" is vague, feelings-based not fact-based.
- gadders 4y ago
  The BBC also had Gavyn Davies as a chairman.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 4y ago
    "Gavyn Davies ... is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004" > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies So this ended 19 years ago. I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of this historical anecdote to what's currently true?