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> Aah, the good old days when the BBC was un-biased. I'm curious, around when do you think that changed? And was there a specific story they reported on (or di

> Aah, the good old days when the BBC was un-biased. I'm curious, around when do you think that changed? And was there a specific story they reported on (or didn't report on) that really solidified the change for you?

traceroute66 4y ago
> I'm curious, around when do you think that changed? The smell of change appeared more clearly in the run-up to Brexit. Certainly post-Brexit I would say it is very much evident. > And was there a specific story they reported on (or didn't report on) that really solidified the change for you? To be clear (as per my Radio 4 example cited above), it is not necessarily a case of "reported on / did not report on", it is frequently more a case of bias / lack of impartiality, again as nicely exemplified by my "two hardcore Brexiteers fight over Brexit" example[1]. However, I could also give you many examples of "reported on/did not report on". Perhaps one of the most well known is Lady Mone of House of Lords fame. She is/was subject to various investigations regarding supply of PPE during CoVID. For a long time, Lady Mone's investigations were widely reported in all mainstream media (tabloids, broadsheets, other mainstream TV/Radio news ... you name the place, it was reported there). But the BBC ? Nope. No mention on TV/Radio news, and for a long time a search for "Mone" on the BBC News website yielded exactly zero results. Even today although you can now find a small number of mentions on the BBC website, you'll have to go looking on other mainstream sources for the actual detail.[2] [1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/23289638.bbc-slated-insulting-radio-4-interview-brexit-anniversary/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/23289638.bbc-slated-insult... [2] https://www.thenational.scot/news/20107509.bbc-refuses-say-hasnt-covered-tory-peer-michelle-mones-london-house-raid/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/20107509.bbc-refuses-say-h... EDIT TO ADD (because I can't reply to the @Veen directly) > Leftists think it's an establishment mouthpiece run by the Tories. Well.... I see how they could feel that way when the recently appointed BBC Chairman is a chap who appears to have more than a few ties to Boris Johnson[3]. [3] https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/186148/bbc-chair-made-significant-errors-of-judgement-over-pm-loan-involvement-mps-say/ https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/digital-cultu...
AlecSchueler 4y ago
Not the person you asked but I'd say there was a noticeable shift during the stewardship of Laura Kuenssberg as political editor, beginning in 2015.
pjc50 4y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry Regardless of the fine detail about who knew what at what time, history has vindicated people who were skeptical about the claims being made to provoke the invasion of Iraq, and it was not right of the Blair government to attempt to suppress them. (Mind you, the BBC has never been really able to report on the security state; see the Troubles, or the Zircon Affair)

traceroute66 4y ago

> I'm curious, around when do you think that changed? The smell of change appeared more clearly in the run-up to Brexit. Certainly post-Brexit I would say it is very much evident. > And was there a specific story they reported on (or didn't report on) that really solidified the change for you? To be clear (as per my Radio 4 example cited above), it is not necessarily a case of "reported on / did not report on", it is frequently more a case of bias / lack of impartiality, again as nicely exemplified by my "two hardcore Brexiteers fight over Brexit" example[1]. However, I could also give you many examples of "reported on/did not report on". Perhaps one of the most well known is Lady Mone of House of Lords fame. She is/was subject to various investigations regarding supply of PPE during CoVID. For a long time, Lady Mone's investigations were widely reported in all mainstream media (tabloids, broadsheets, other mainstream TV/Radio news ... you name the place, it was reported there). But the BBC ? Nope. No mention on TV/Radio news, and for a long time a search for "Mone" on the BBC News website yielded exactly zero results. Even today although you can now find a small number of mentions on the BBC website, you'll have to go looking on other mainstream sources for the actual detail.[2] [1] https://www.thenational.scot/news/23289638.bbc-slated-insulting-radio-4-interview-brexit-anniversary/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/23289638.bbc-slated-insult... [2] https://www.thenational.scot/news/20107509.bbc-refuses-say-hasnt-covered-tory-peer-michelle-mones-london-house-raid/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/20107509.bbc-refuses-say-h... EDIT TO ADD (because I can't reply to the @Veen directly) > Leftists think it's an establishment mouthpiece run by the Tories. Well.... I see how they could feel that way when the recently appointed BBC Chairman is a chap who appears to have more than a few ties to Boris Johnson[3]. [3] https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/digital-culture-media-and-sport-committee/news/186148/bbc-chair-made-significant-errors-of-judgement-over-pm-loan-involvement-mps-say/ https://committees.parliament.uk/committee/378/digital-cultu...

AlecSchueler 4y ago

Not the person you asked but I'd say there was a noticeable shift during the stewardship of Laura Kuenssberg as political editor, beginning in 2015.

pjc50 4y ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutton_Inquiry Regardless of the fine detail about who knew what at what time, history has vindicated people who were skeptical about the claims being made to provoke the invasion of Iraq, and it was not right of the Blair government to attempt to suppress them. (Mind you, the BBC has never been really able to report on the security state; see the Troubles, or the Zircon Affair)