Is it the third of the population that is right-wing leaning?
Saintsman83 on
Isn’t the saying that if the left think you’re too far right leaning, and the right thing you’re too far left leaning you’ve got it spot on? My personal view is that Farage and Reform get too much air time in comparison to Lib dems and the greens so overall I don’t think there’s too much of an issue
>Only 19 per cent said the BBC was not politically biased at all, while 31 per cent of respondents said they did not know.
Given how much the right wing hammer home the lefty bias BBC narrative I would suggest that means they’re nailing it.
Agreeable_Falcon1044 on
Best move davie and gibb did, produce one of the most right leaning biased coverage with stacked panels, selected audiences and one sided interviews…whilst claiming they need to be more right leaning due to a left bias!
strongfavourite on
Corbyn, Farage, Lineker, Israel.. Keunssberg, Raffi Berg, Tim Davie and on and on and on
>public believes
the evidence proves otherwise
Pheasant_Plucker84 on
Just because the BBC air some programmes that have black people or show gay people kissing, people accuse them of being “left wing” or Woke. Politically they are right wing or at the very least capitalist. The BBC do their best to slander any left wing politician whilst giving more time than they should to right wing politicians.
RaymondBumcheese on
I know/knew people who worked in BBC News and one of the metrics they used to assess bias is the amount of complaints they received accusing them of being left/right. It traditionally broke even which they took as proof that they were doing impartiality right.
Their big problem now, really, is that people now lie with absolutely impunity so to be ‘impartial’ in a topic is to often present absolute bullshit as an opposing view. Treating ‘both sides’ seriously inherently gives validation to absolutely absurd positions.
‘Here is Oxford university professor of astronomy saying the sun comes up in the morning and here is some right wing crank from the daily mail who is saying its a spotlight put up there by lizard people’
CJBill on
So two thirds think they aren’t?
But seriously, this is a “snap poll” right after a major news story. It’s an obvious attempt by the Telegraph to continue to try to damage the BBC.
Accomplished-Ad-6639 on
31% say biased left,
19% say biased right,
19% say no bias,
31% don’t know.
Those seem like poll numbers you’d expect for a network that was unbiased?
OkAsparagus839 on
Having consumed the BBC for decades I’d say the issue is less left-right and more a lack of detail.
The BBC is too focused on representing every view with balance that it doesn’t interrogate what is being said and drop that representation when what is said can be demonstrated to be false.
Not doing so produces a low quality tit for tat approach where lies and uncritically amplified. Those who know how to game this system get over-represented which then magnifies the issue over time.
impioussaint on
a third thinks it is right wing bias and a third don’t care, the other 1% doesn’t care. What is fascinating about this is if this was any other news channel editing footage to fit a political bias that would be business as normal when BBC does it theres a meltdown.
Howcanitbesosimple on
That’s actually pretty good tbh, 1/3rd of the population is right of centre.
Ill-Coconut8237 on
I’m coming from this from a left wing perspective but personally, I don’t think the BBC has ignored right wing views especially when it comes to politics. The beeb has a Reform MP on TV every week while the Liberal Democrats in comparison are never on even though they have more MP’s. Nigel Farage has also practically been platformed by the BBC due to his constant appearances on QT over the years.
The only show that I can honestly remember from recent memory batting me over the head with what you would call “wokeness” is Doctor Who but I think that’s more of an issue with the show having shit writing.
The only way I could view the BBC as having a right wing bias as if I look at it through the lens of a reform voter who a) doesn’t like being challenged on anything and b) finds it uncomfortable seeing someone who doesn’t look like them on TV. To that point, I think some people just need to understand that not all Television reflects them, grow up and maybe watch something else.
coolhand83 on
The thing that REALLY winds me up with things like this is the amount of pure morons that simply *do not have their own opinion* and just recycle the absolute rubbish they’ve heard on social media, which unfortunately seems to go pretty viral… And they tend to be right wing
According_Parfait680 on
What an absolutely farcical headline. So the minority that want all their media to have a right wing bias?? Is the Telegraph claiming that as some kind of victory?? What a joke of a publication that rag has become.
nextquestioncya on
the senior appointments had such close links with the conservative party and there is such well documented bias against left wing politics during the corbyn years particularly. That’s before we get to the over reliance on Farage and his parties for so-called balance when they weren’t polling significantly with the general public. This is all a Trump-manufactured lie.
evolveandprosper on
Left-wing bias? That must be why they keep putting Nigel Farage on Question Time…Oh!…Hang on a minute…
Mr_Rockmore on
So two thirds dont, thats a pretty underwhelming statistic
mattscazza on
Ah yes, because I am forever seeing the BBC pushing Socialist propaganda! /s.
Please can we stop copying America with this “liberal = left” and culture wars rubbish.
andymaclean19 on
I’m fairly sure a third of the public also believes Nigel Farrage could do the job of PM.
Particular_Tough4860 on
**Survey results on perceived BBC political bias**
|Response option|Percentage|
|:-|:-|
|BBC biased (total)|50%|
|- Biased to the Left|31%|
|- Biased to the Right|19%|
|BBC not politically biased|19%|
|Don’t know|31%|
Source: According to this Telegraph article, which quotes a YouGov poll of 4921 people.
Spudsmad on
This means that two thirds of the public do not have this beliefs/ opinion .
Do the one third of the population then consider REFORM to be LEFT OR RIGHT biased ?
Additional_Hippo_878 on
If ONLY it actually was, and wasn’t just another right-wing mouthpiece. The British Bullshitting Corporation. 🤮
a3minutehero on
Man, the Telegraph is really stroking that hate boner for the BBC at the moment aren’t they.
Impression I get is that people in general think the BBC is biased against their own political perspective.
Maleficent_Crazy5330 on
This is hilarious I love how they have separated us that much when the BBC has been caught lying in front of everyone the left still make it about reform 🫡
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Is it the third of the population that is right-wing leaning?
Isn’t the saying that if the left think you’re too far right leaning, and the right thing you’re too far left leaning you’ve got it spot on? My personal view is that Farage and Reform get too much air time in comparison to Lib dems and the greens so overall I don’t think there’s too much of an issue
>Some 31 per cent said the BBC was [biased in favour of Left-wing views](https://archive.is/o/Fh5qA/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/10/apologise-white-middle-class-life-inside-bbc/), while 19 per cent believed the corporation to be biased in favour of Right-wing views.
>Only 19 per cent said the BBC was not politically biased at all, while 31 per cent of respondents said they did not know.
Given how much the right wing hammer home the lefty bias BBC narrative I would suggest that means they’re nailing it.
Best move davie and gibb did, produce one of the most right leaning biased coverage with stacked panels, selected audiences and one sided interviews…whilst claiming they need to be more right leaning due to a left bias!
Corbyn, Farage, Lineker, Israel.. Keunssberg, Raffi Berg, Tim Davie and on and on and on
>public believes
the evidence proves otherwise
Just because the BBC air some programmes that have black people or show gay people kissing, people accuse them of being “left wing” or Woke. Politically they are right wing or at the very least capitalist. The BBC do their best to slander any left wing politician whilst giving more time than they should to right wing politicians.
I know/knew people who worked in BBC News and one of the metrics they used to assess bias is the amount of complaints they received accusing them of being left/right. It traditionally broke even which they took as proof that they were doing impartiality right.
Their big problem now, really, is that people now lie with absolutely impunity so to be ‘impartial’ in a topic is to often present absolute bullshit as an opposing view. Treating ‘both sides’ seriously inherently gives validation to absolutely absurd positions.
‘Here is Oxford university professor of astronomy saying the sun comes up in the morning and here is some right wing crank from the daily mail who is saying its a spotlight put up there by lizard people’
So two thirds think they aren’t?
But seriously, this is a “snap poll” right after a major news story. It’s an obvious attempt by the Telegraph to continue to try to damage the BBC.
31% say biased left,
19% say biased right,
19% say no bias,
31% don’t know.
Those seem like poll numbers you’d expect for a network that was unbiased?
Having consumed the BBC for decades I’d say the issue is less left-right and more a lack of detail.
The BBC is too focused on representing every view with balance that it doesn’t interrogate what is being said and drop that representation when what is said can be demonstrated to be false.
Not doing so produces a low quality tit for tat approach where lies and uncritically amplified. Those who know how to game this system get over-represented which then magnifies the issue over time.
a third thinks it is right wing bias and a third don’t care, the other 1% doesn’t care. What is fascinating about this is if this was any other news channel editing footage to fit a political bias that would be business as normal when BBC does it theres a meltdown.
That’s actually pretty good tbh, 1/3rd of the population is right of centre.
I’m coming from this from a left wing perspective but personally, I don’t think the BBC has ignored right wing views especially when it comes to politics. The beeb has a Reform MP on TV every week while the Liberal Democrats in comparison are never on even though they have more MP’s. Nigel Farage has also practically been platformed by the BBC due to his constant appearances on QT over the years.
The only show that I can honestly remember from recent memory batting me over the head with what you would call “wokeness” is Doctor Who but I think that’s more of an issue with the show having shit writing.
The only way I could view the BBC as having a right wing bias as if I look at it through the lens of a reform voter who a) doesn’t like being challenged on anything and b) finds it uncomfortable seeing someone who doesn’t look like them on TV. To that point, I think some people just need to understand that not all Television reflects them, grow up and maybe watch something else.
The thing that REALLY winds me up with things like this is the amount of pure morons that simply *do not have their own opinion* and just recycle the absolute rubbish they’ve heard on social media, which unfortunately seems to go pretty viral… And they tend to be right wing
What an absolutely farcical headline. So the minority that want all their media to have a right wing bias?? Is the Telegraph claiming that as some kind of victory?? What a joke of a publication that rag has become.
the senior appointments had such close links with the conservative party and there is such well documented bias against left wing politics during the corbyn years particularly. That’s before we get to the over reliance on Farage and his parties for so-called balance when they weren’t polling significantly with the general public. This is all a Trump-manufactured lie.
Left-wing bias? That must be why they keep putting Nigel Farage on Question Time…Oh!…Hang on a minute…
So two thirds dont, thats a pretty underwhelming statistic
Ah yes, because I am forever seeing the BBC pushing Socialist propaganda! /s.
Please can we stop copying America with this “liberal = left” and culture wars rubbish.
I’m fairly sure a third of the public also believes Nigel Farrage could do the job of PM.
**Survey results on perceived BBC political bias**
|Response option|Percentage|
|:-|:-|
|BBC biased (total)|50%|
|- Biased to the Left|31%|
|- Biased to the Right|19%|
|BBC not politically biased|19%|
|Don’t know|31%|
Source: According to this Telegraph article, which quotes a YouGov poll of 4921 people.
This means that two thirds of the public do not have this beliefs/ opinion .
Do the one third of the population then consider REFORM to be LEFT OR RIGHT biased ?
If ONLY it actually was, and wasn’t just another right-wing mouthpiece. The British Bullshitting Corporation. 🤮
Man, the Telegraph is really stroking that hate boner for the BBC at the moment aren’t they.
The “left wing” bias of the BBC:
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/976/cpsprodpb/16092/production/_100485209_corbyn3.jpg.webp
Their right wing bias:
https://www.indy100.com/politics/nigel-farage-question-time-how-many
Impression I get is that people in general think the BBC is biased against their own political perspective.
This is hilarious I love how they have separated us that much when the BBC has been caught lying in front of everyone the left still make it about reform 🫡