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BBC is great but it is very biased. There’s no such thing as neutral news and the front page is full of pro-western and pro-british articles. You could argue it

BBC is great but it is very biased. There’s no such thing as neutral news and the front page is full of pro-western and pro-british articles. You could argue it’s in the middle of the British political spectrum but that’s inherently a bias towards the status quo. There’s nothing wrong with biased news but it’s important to recognize what their perspective really is. Thinking it’s neutral is dangerous and you’ll never know the truth if you believe that!

PaulRobinson 1y ago
1. Go and read the editorial guidelines. 2. Find the same ones for your favourite news source. 3. Ask if the balance is reasonable for a British broadcaster, paid for by British people, to address stories of interest of British interest from a British perspective by applying those editorial guidelines. 4. Go and explore the times that the BBC has actively investigated and reported on exclusives critical of British foreign and domestic policy - there's more examples than you'd find at any other broadcaster in the World, I think. If you'd like to point out examples of where the editorial guidelines are poor, or weren't applied in a particular scenario, or even an example of perceived bias that is entirely unbalanced, I'm happy to hear it. More often than not people complaining of bias are complaining that it reported something they disagreed with, but like I say, both the far left and the far right hate the BBC, anarchists hate it, authoritarians hate it - if they're annoying everyone apart from the more sensible majority that want to see all sides of a story, they're probably doing something very right.
- asdf6969 1y ago
  You’re completely missing the point and I don’t think you actually know what “bias” means. > a British broadcaster, paid for by British people, to address stories of interest of British interest from a British perspective This is exactly my point. You’re going to get news from maybe 1% of the full ideological spectrum and nowhere near “all sides” of any story. The BBC has a strong bias towards status quo opinions (“ of British interest from a British perspective”). The news they don’t report on is equally as important as what they do publish.

PaulRobinson 1y ago

1. Go and read the editorial guidelines. 2. Find the same ones for your favourite news source. 3. Ask if the balance is reasonable for a British broadcaster, paid for by British people, to address stories of interest of British interest from a British perspective by applying those editorial guidelines. 4. Go and explore the times that the BBC has actively investigated and reported on exclusives critical of British foreign and domestic policy - there's more examples than you'd find at any other broadcaster in the World, I think. If you'd like to point out examples of where the editorial guidelines are poor, or weren't applied in a particular scenario, or even an example of perceived bias that is entirely unbalanced, I'm happy to hear it. More often than not people complaining of bias are complaining that it reported something they disagreed with, but like I say, both the far left and the far right hate the BBC, anarchists hate it, authoritarians hate it - if they're annoying everyone apart from the more sensible majority that want to see all sides of a story, they're probably doing something very right.

asdf6969 1y ago
You’re completely missing the point and I don’t think you actually know what “bias” means. > a British broadcaster, paid for by British people, to address stories of interest of British interest from a British perspective This is exactly my point. You’re going to get news from maybe 1% of the full ideological spectrum and nowhere near “all sides” of any story. The BBC has a strong bias towards status quo opinions (“ of British interest from a British perspective”). The news they don’t report on is equally as important as what they do publish.