I was always surprised by their definition of impartiality.
99.9% of the scientific community agrees that Earth is round? They invite one scientist with years of study behind him and one facebook-educated crazy flat-earther.
90% of economists agree Brexit is a stupid idea? The invite an economist and columnist from the Telegragh.
It’s nonsense.
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They also don’t even follow them, especially when it comes to trans people, but thats not really the only case.
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LookOverall on
Impartial = Agrees with me. That’s the fundamental problem with impartiality.
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The BBC Middle East Editor has photos of himself with Israeli politicians and a framed letter from Netanyahu.
So i think Impartial is an understatement.
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Impartiality is fine when there is an actual debate within a field, it does not mean you entertain fringe ideas that are easily disprovable by anyone with actual expertise in the field. Climate change is real and riven by human activity. You can debate how much time we have left, what the impact will be, what we can do to reduce our impact etc. It is not like there is no room for debate within the field. There is no debate as to whether it is happening and that it is driven my human activity. Impartiality should not give people the opportunity to spread misinformation, lies and conspiracy theories.
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> “It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn’t.”
Emily Maitlis
klepto_entropoid on
This guy is such a sanctimonous idiot. He was paid to present the footie not pontificate. That was too difficult for him apparently.
CropCircles_ on
BBC should only be impartial to uk political parties. On everything else they should strive for the truth, which is often not impartial
Spamgrenade on
The main problem the BBC has is that most people do not differentiate between hard news and opinion pieces anymore.
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I was always surprised by their definition of impartiality.
99.9% of the scientific community agrees that Earth is round? They invite one scientist with years of study behind him and one facebook-educated crazy flat-earther.
90% of economists agree Brexit is a stupid idea? The invite an economist and columnist from the Telegragh.
It’s nonsense.
They also don’t even follow them, especially when it comes to trans people, but thats not really the only case.
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Impartial = Agrees with me. That’s the fundamental problem with impartiality.
The BBC Middle East Editor has photos of himself with Israeli politicians and a framed letter from Netanyahu.
So i think Impartial is an understatement.
Impartiality is fine when there is an actual debate within a field, it does not mean you entertain fringe ideas that are easily disprovable by anyone with actual expertise in the field. Climate change is real and riven by human activity. You can debate how much time we have left, what the impact will be, what we can do to reduce our impact etc. It is not like there is no room for debate within the field. There is no debate as to whether it is happening and that it is driven my human activity. Impartiality should not give people the opportunity to spread misinformation, lies and conspiracy theories.
> “It might take our producers five minutes to find 60 economists who feared Brexit and five hours to find a sole voice who espoused it. But by the time we went on air we simply had one of each; we presented this unequal effort to our audience as balance. It wasn’t.”
Emily Maitlis
This guy is such a sanctimonous idiot. He was paid to present the footie not pontificate. That was too difficult for him apparently.
BBC should only be impartial to uk political parties. On everything else they should strive for the truth, which is often not impartial
The main problem the BBC has is that most people do not differentiate between hard news and opinion pieces anymore.