Think it’s obvious that they want Farage to be our next PM. And it’s working.
_JR28_ on
It takes one look at the coverage Reform gets for their standing in Parliament versus the coverage of Lib Dems and Greens to see the media have favourites. Seeing Reform on television is a borderline daily occurrence.
CarlLlamaface on
What a shocking revelation about the broadcaster who keeps giving Farage and his parties disproportionate airtime, nobody could have guessed this is the case.
SevenNites on
BBC has lost it they’ve become chasing clickbait organisation when they don’t need to, they have steady income from TV licence fees. Radio 4 this morning was all dedicated to talking about Reform UK.
The ultimate clickbait story they want is Farage becoming the next prime minister.
Current_Case7806 on
Does it explain the shocking reporting of the election last week.
Original headline: Labour squeak to narrow win – but this is not an endorsement
Second attempt: Reform are the real winners of the night.
It seems when Reform win (even in Runcorn by small margins), it’s a huge victory and a resounding vote of overwhelming support. When they lose, BBC just declare they are the real winners for coming third…
Shardonk on
Tim Davie is a Tory plant and it is incompetent of Labour to tolerate this politicization of the BBC
penfarthingismyhero on
I just didn’t understand why Starmer hasn’t replaced these BBC Tory stuges
qwerty_1965 on
So Till Death Do Us Part and In Sickness and in Health will now be remade as straight drama about how them foreigners are coming over here with their funny foods and clothing.
DonnieLovesBowling on
Struggling to see what more they can do with their news output to make reform voters feel valued.
And does this mean the return of Big Break and endless reruns of ripe 70’s comedy?
HarmonicState on
What would this output be? Sounds like garbage. Is Jim Davidson still alive? Maybe have him replace Linekar?
jtrimm98 on
They already give them a ludicrous amount of coverage, they don’t need even more support from the BBC
Intruder313 on
Pandering to the far right is not something I want to see from the BBC – I’d cancel my licence if I had one!
Sdd1998 on
I think it’s time to strip the BBC of government funding, or do a complete reset of the media giant. We can see that the BBC are all but impartial and neutral these days. Their corruption and ties to extremist groups on both sides of the political spectrum have been documented.
Bloody_sock_puppet on
So not impartial at all then?
Well I think we all sensed it has been some years since they even paid lip-service to impartiality, but I had hoped that under a Labour government they would recapture some of it.
Sadly Labour *also* seem to support reform, or more likely their donors do and lacking any autonomy of their own they are just following what the donor-prepared focus groups tell them to. It’s sad. Another lost institution.
British Gas is now just a way to funnel UK wages to US shareholders and dodge culpability for vast environmental damage. Privatised rail is now too expensive to use to commute. We have enough renewable energy to power the whole country but we lease it to companies for a pittance and buy energy back at peak. Solely because our elected officials benefit personally or professionally from the favours they get in return. Privatised water was always evil in concept, but now the river are full of forever chemicals. God knows what the BBC will become. I’m assuming something between FOX and that announcer from Battle Royale who reads out lists of areas they’re going to be killing everyone in.
John_Williams_1977 on
There aren’t ‘Reform voters’ or ‘Labour voters’.
There’s only customers.
Market research will tell you what customers want and doing that is the ABSOLUTE minimum a business can do.
So this headline should be ‘BBC to make shows people want to watch’.
Cute_Speed4981 on
We cannot live in a functional democracy as long as the media and information environment is controlled by people with a completely different set of interests to the average person. It’s time for them to be brought into public ownership either via nationalisation(in case of bbc) or cooperativisation(in case of the other private entities)
RecommendationOnly78 on
The media has been right wing for a long time. Stuff Tories get away with, but labour are criticised
Investigate the BBC’s apparent bias towards Reform UK
1. To investigate the BBC’s disproportionate coverage of Reform UK
2. To investigate whether, given Reform UK’s position as a limited company, such coverage counts as advertising.
The BBC’s news reporting has repeatedly shown bias towards Reform UK. This minority party receives a disproportionate amount of favourable airtime as compared to more successful parties, such as the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Green Party, with even its losses being portrayed as victories. As a publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC should not be politically biased, particularly in favour of a limited company. This coverage creates a misleading view of Reform UK’s popularity and competence.
tipytopmain on
UK news broadcasters & media see just how lucrative it is for US broadcasters to cover Trumpism on the daily basis and they want that on home soil. To hell with sensibility and fairness of how it could effect our countries democracy.
retrofauxhemian on
The BBC isnt a political party, it’s supposed to be a state broadcasting apparatus that pretends at Impartial neutrality. Why does it need to ‘win over’ anyone? This isnt rocket science, you go mask off and you lose even the pretense of impartiality.
Zeekayo on
Why on earth is an ostensibly political neutral public state broadcaster trying to “win over” *any* voters?
Spamgrenade on
FFS how long do we have to pander to these morons before they realise that Farage is on the grift?
goodtitties on
why are the bbc so insistent on appealing to people who hate the existence of the bbc
Bearaf123 on
So alienate existing viewers to attract crackpot GBNews viewers, basically? Just abandon journalistic standards, the high quality drama with diverse cast, crew and writers all to appease people who voted for people who can’t even be bothered showing up for their local councils meetings and are drumming up Trump style policies? This has to be a joke, right?
Lopsided_Custard3429 on
And they want us to pay TV licence for the privilege? No thanks, I can see raggedy old arseholes online for free instead
fish-and-cushion on
Coming up next on BBC1, Top Gear but it’s only the bits with Clarkson in. Followed by Only Fools and Horses before we join Fiona Bruce kicking a Just Stop Oil protester in the balls.
Cold-Sun3302 on
It’s almost as if the news corporations want a far-right government.
Halcyon-Ember on
This country’s obsession with weird racists is definitely coming to a middle.
GreatKingRat88 on
This might be a silly question but why the fuck is the national broadcaster who are supposed to be politically neutral trying to ‘win over’ anyone??
RafaSquared on
The desperation from our media to turn UK politics into an entertainment show akin to the US is sickening.
murphy_1892 on
The fact that Labour governments are listening to previously ignored concerns about immigration is a good thing. Its shown democracy working.
The fact that institutions like the BBC are now listening to white working classes feeling underrepresented in entertainment is a good thing. They are. It will be good to get their stories about, just like its good BME people now are able to see their stories on TV.
This is all good stuff. The problem is the trust is so broken its not unlikely that Reform actually get into power. At best, they will be incompetent and financially reckless. At worst, they are beholden to billionaire backers and (a minority) section of the core membership base that are unironically biologically maximalist racists and genuine authoritarians
Issues like these should have been resolved long ago to avoid them getting to this place
Sickofchildren on
These fuckers would’ve worked night and day to get trump in if he ran for PM. They are so biased.
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Think it’s obvious that they want Farage to be our next PM. And it’s working.
It takes one look at the coverage Reform gets for their standing in Parliament versus the coverage of Lib Dems and Greens to see the media have favourites. Seeing Reform on television is a borderline daily occurrence.
What a shocking revelation about the broadcaster who keeps giving Farage and his parties disproportionate airtime, nobody could have guessed this is the case.
BBC has lost it they’ve become chasing clickbait organisation when they don’t need to, they have steady income from TV licence fees. Radio 4 this morning was all dedicated to talking about Reform UK.
The ultimate clickbait story they want is Farage becoming the next prime minister.
Does it explain the shocking reporting of the election last week.
Original headline: Labour squeak to narrow win – but this is not an endorsement
Second attempt: Reform are the real winners of the night.
It seems when Reform win (even in Runcorn by small margins), it’s a huge victory and a resounding vote of overwhelming support. When they lose, BBC just declare they are the real winners for coming third…
Tim Davie is a Tory plant and it is incompetent of Labour to tolerate this politicization of the BBC
I just didn’t understand why Starmer hasn’t replaced these BBC Tory stuges
So Till Death Do Us Part and In Sickness and in Health will now be remade as straight drama about how them foreigners are coming over here with their funny foods and clothing.
Struggling to see what more they can do with their news output to make reform voters feel valued.
And does this mean the return of Big Break and endless reruns of ripe 70’s comedy?
What would this output be? Sounds like garbage. Is Jim Davidson still alive? Maybe have him replace Linekar?
They already give them a ludicrous amount of coverage, they don’t need even more support from the BBC
Pandering to the far right is not something I want to see from the BBC – I’d cancel my licence if I had one!
I think it’s time to strip the BBC of government funding, or do a complete reset of the media giant. We can see that the BBC are all but impartial and neutral these days. Their corruption and ties to extremist groups on both sides of the political spectrum have been documented.
So not impartial at all then?
Well I think we all sensed it has been some years since they even paid lip-service to impartiality, but I had hoped that under a Labour government they would recapture some of it.
Sadly Labour *also* seem to support reform, or more likely their donors do and lacking any autonomy of their own they are just following what the donor-prepared focus groups tell them to. It’s sad. Another lost institution.
British Gas is now just a way to funnel UK wages to US shareholders and dodge culpability for vast environmental damage. Privatised rail is now too expensive to use to commute. We have enough renewable energy to power the whole country but we lease it to companies for a pittance and buy energy back at peak. Solely because our elected officials benefit personally or professionally from the favours they get in return. Privatised water was always evil in concept, but now the river are full of forever chemicals. God knows what the BBC will become. I’m assuming something between FOX and that announcer from Battle Royale who reads out lists of areas they’re going to be killing everyone in.
There aren’t ‘Reform voters’ or ‘Labour voters’.
There’s only customers.
Market research will tell you what customers want and doing that is the ABSOLUTE minimum a business can do.
So this headline should be ‘BBC to make shows people want to watch’.
We cannot live in a functional democracy as long as the media and information environment is controlled by people with a completely different set of interests to the average person. It’s time for them to be brought into public ownership either via nationalisation(in case of bbc) or cooperativisation(in case of the other private entities)
The media has been right wing for a long time. Stuff Tories get away with, but labour are criticised
Might not achieve anything, but…
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/729840/sponsors/new?token=F1CANKy5ZHVRX3d6432m
Investigate the BBC’s apparent bias towards Reform UK
1. To investigate the BBC’s disproportionate coverage of Reform UK
2. To investigate whether, given Reform UK’s position as a limited company, such coverage counts as advertising.
The BBC’s news reporting has repeatedly shown bias towards Reform UK. This minority party receives a disproportionate amount of favourable airtime as compared to more successful parties, such as the Liberal Democrats, the SNP and the Green Party, with even its losses being portrayed as victories. As a publicly funded broadcaster, the BBC should not be politically biased, particularly in favour of a limited company. This coverage creates a misleading view of Reform UK’s popularity and competence.
UK news broadcasters & media see just how lucrative it is for US broadcasters to cover Trumpism on the daily basis and they want that on home soil. To hell with sensibility and fairness of how it could effect our countries democracy.
The BBC isnt a political party, it’s supposed to be a state broadcasting apparatus that pretends at Impartial neutrality. Why does it need to ‘win over’ anyone? This isnt rocket science, you go mask off and you lose even the pretense of impartiality.
Why on earth is an ostensibly political neutral public state broadcaster trying to “win over” *any* voters?
FFS how long do we have to pander to these morons before they realise that Farage is on the grift?
why are the bbc so insistent on appealing to people who hate the existence of the bbc
So alienate existing viewers to attract crackpot GBNews viewers, basically? Just abandon journalistic standards, the high quality drama with diverse cast, crew and writers all to appease people who voted for people who can’t even be bothered showing up for their local councils meetings and are drumming up Trump style policies? This has to be a joke, right?
And they want us to pay TV licence for the privilege? No thanks, I can see raggedy old arseholes online for free instead
Coming up next on BBC1, Top Gear but it’s only the bits with Clarkson in. Followed by Only Fools and Horses before we join Fiona Bruce kicking a Just Stop Oil protester in the balls.
It’s almost as if the news corporations want a far-right government.
This country’s obsession with weird racists is definitely coming to a middle.
This might be a silly question but why the fuck is the national broadcaster who are supposed to be politically neutral trying to ‘win over’ anyone??
The desperation from our media to turn UK politics into an entertainment show akin to the US is sickening.
The fact that Labour governments are listening to previously ignored concerns about immigration is a good thing. Its shown democracy working.
The fact that institutions like the BBC are now listening to white working classes feeling underrepresented in entertainment is a good thing. They are. It will be good to get their stories about, just like its good BME people now are able to see their stories on TV.
This is all good stuff. The problem is the trust is so broken its not unlikely that Reform actually get into power. At best, they will be incompetent and financially reckless. At worst, they are beholden to billionaire backers and (a minority) section of the core membership base that are unironically biologically maximalist racists and genuine authoritarians
Issues like these should have been resolved long ago to avoid them getting to this place
These fuckers would’ve worked night and day to get trump in if he ran for PM. They are so biased.