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Trust hasn't gone for anybody that didn't already dislike the BBC. It's an incredibly minor issue.

It's a really minor thing being blown up as part of trump's anti news agenda. Hysterical people are cancelling paying over it. People look for any excuse, they'd have to have a particular mindset to claim that in the first place.

We're really not. We have some of the harshest sentencing in Europe. Sentences have been getting ever longer and the prison population has grown to fill all available space.

I accept both of those answers TBF

As a leftie, the gender thing was a pet of a small group on the left that were allowed to be very noisy. Most of us want people to be allowed to live how they want but see no reason for a spectrum of pronouns etc. The right doesn't want rid of the BBC because it's biased or exposing them. It wants rid of the BBC because it has a large audience and providing as unbiased information as it can - mistakes excepted - means it challenges the outright lies printed by mail, express, telegraph etc. Trump has been attacking the BBC throughout the year. I'm the summer his press secretary spent an entire press conference ripping into the BBC for it's coverage of Israel/Gaza when she was incorrect throughout. This is part of a coordinated attack on the truth by trump and across much of right wing media.

You won't get an answer. Just a lot of noise about how offensive the BBC is. It's nonsense. News broadcasts routinely splice together bits of speeches to give a general sense of them. Trump absolutely did cause the January 6th riots. David Yelland, former editor of the Sun wrote on X: “What has happened today at the BBC is nothing short of a coup, a national disgrace, the corporation’s board has effectively been undermined and elements close to it have worked with hostile newspaper editors, a former PM and enemies of public service broadcasting. The only honourable players here are Tim Davie and Deborah Turness.” Journalist and environmental activist George Monbiot said: “Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough…”. Journalist Ian Dunt said: “This is the most abysmal, pathetic thing. The BBC head resigning because the corporation is not supine *enough* to the far-right.” Political editor of Byline Times, Adam Bienkov, wrote on Bluesky: “The BBC’s senior leadership resigning en masse over one dodgy edit in one programme, simply because the right wing press demands it, tells you everything you need to know about where the power really lies in that relationship.”

Audacity? Why are you taking so much personal affront. I'm not denying the BBC has made an error in this case. I still think the BBC is needed and important. These are two separate things. Why are you incapable of reading responses without finding some sort of offence you can take?

Instead of accusing me of trying to defend them maybe read what I wrote. I wasn't defending them and also don't have the detail you've given here. Fair enough but whether way no defence was offered. The BBC is a great British institution that needs to be saved from its attackers who simply want right wing media hegemony. I don't agree.

Davie stood for election as a Tory in the 90s but didn't get elected.

I'm not trying to prove them innocent. I'm saying it would have been easy to miss when you're waving the programme through. The broadcaster may well be liable but given it wasn't them that intentionally spliced video segments, I'm just saying you can see how easy that would be to miss.

I'm not getting into all of these but critical race theory doesn't exist in the UK. Net zero and climate change are scientifically cast iron. Having people argue against cast iron science isn't 'giving both sides', it's pretending one side is equal to the other when it isn't. Israel/Palestine the BBC like every other organisation has played to the Israeli side. Gender ideology I think everybody has lost their heads over a minor side issue tbh. Brexit largely happened because of the BBC giving farage a platform when he was a nobody in the years before. A lot of the right these days seen to think balanced reporting equals everything they believe being reported as fact. You're giving that impression yourself.

The BBC didn't make it. It was made by an independent production company and nobody noticed the cutting of the speech because, let's face it, it's still two bits of the same speech.

Ok well you don't want to and I do want to so we're even

The public are led by incessant calls to abolish the BBC and claims of bias from the 85% of the media that are Tory supporting or right wing. Because they want hemegomy and only right wing voices. The public being easily led isn't really a debate at this point.

It's as if my post doesn't exist though. That's the point. You've chosen to ignore the post that sets out the research into this.

One of the most extensive pieces of content analysis in recent years was conducted for the BBC Trust by Cardiff University. This research, amongst other things, examined the BBC’s coverage of immigration and the EU – two of the most divisive issues in British politics. What researchers found was that conservative perspectives were more prevalent in BBC reporting, and that while the balance between the two major political parties tended to be broadly equal, Conservative featured more regularly than Labour. This rightward leaning reporting has also been confirmed in analyses of guest appearances on programmes like BBC Question Time, and a forthcoming piece of research has confirmed that the right has a slight edge in terms of political guests on BBC programme, and interestingly that the BBC favours right-wing over left-wing Labour MPs, and the right of the Conservative Party over more moderate Tories – not quite the centre ground some have assumed that the BBC adopts. Academic research on the BBC’s coverage of the referendum by Loughborough and Cardiff, meanwhile, has found that while the BBC struck a careful balance between the two sides in the referendum, the whole debate was markedly dominated by the Conservatives and UKIP. When it comes to question time, all of the most seen journalists have been right wingers like Isabella Oakeshott, Julia Hartley-Brewer and very right wing think tank people like Kate Andrews. The BBC have had farage on countless times at times when he was polling way behind others or not even in a UK parliament seat.

I don't.

I think reboots annoy me more than sequels TBF. Why remake something everybody loves and which you can only make worse

It just needs to report facts, whichever way they lean. That's what impartiality should mean. If somebody's lying call them out rather than pretending there's two equal sides. That's where it goes wrong. The BBC needs protecting precisely because it attempts to provide balance, even though it fails in both directions sometimes, whereas GB news, the mail, express and telegraph that attack it so much clearly don't do that.

Yeah been like this for ages now, it's boring. Milking franchises over any attempt at ingenuity.

What's your agenda for the trust before I sign up? Can you give us some information about what changes you'd like to see?

No fan, no matter how they see things, is "part of the problem". None of us have any effect on KP or LCFC. This ridiculous "you're either with us or the enemy" type rhetoric is really stupid imo.

What id like is for the club to explain what's going on so we either know if this picture is accurate or not. If it was all on him you'd assume that might have been noticed, so if it isn't then tell us what's going on.

While that is likely true, that's also a hugely right skewed use of panelists on news and similar programmes. It's often noted how many times farage has been on question time Vs ed Davie or Caroline Lucas and her subsequent green party leaders. Journalistic panellists also skew heavily rightwards, with use of right wing think tanks a real issue.

Private eye on point