You can sum up the evil mentality of the Faragist, Trumpist, etc etc brigade...with.." the Third Reich had some good ideas, you know.." Thats what they think.

I was listening the other week to @newint.bsky.social's podcast abt #SpyCops, and one of the participants talked abt how basically a generation of left activists has been pretty much blocked from entering institutions like the BBC because of their bogus police files. No wonder it leans a certain way

If Zoe Gardner got as much airtime as Farage, the migrant "crisis" would not be a "crisis" at all.

It's almost as if: when you shut down those advocating for progress, that regression of society becomes inevitable. How much crueler have we become in the last decade or two?

We have to learn from the experience of Johnson as PM. Initially they appear charismatic but fragile egos need to strut, need self aggrandisement, need revenge, they are grandiose, have no emotional intelligence or empathy, no interest in needs of electorate. Narcissists are toxic in public office.

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Add to the list Oakeshott, JHB, Toby Young, etc....

Don't you mean Oakeshit?

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I have made a written complaint to the BBC on this subject. I hope that many more right minded people will do likewise.

I also did several complaints to BBC and OfCom and all of them led nowhere. Is just a waste of time that will allow the BBC and OfCom to defend themselves by saying they have “robust complaints procedures that take us seriously”, which is of course gaslighting.

I am proud to have no idea who any of those people are.

This week is 10year anniversary of Merkel's Welcome To Germany. Public TV news Tagesschau starts the week by just repeating CDU's racist lies about refugees, zero fact-check. Even potentially non-racist politics journalists in our public TV won't learn from criticism. Arrogant teflon brains.

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I'm not important, but there was a time when I was an active and vocal supporter, and admirer, of the BBC. Now I dislike it, don't watch it, don't listen to it, and don't read it. I don't want to pay for it, and I no longer care if it ceases to exist.

Exactly. Reform get incredible exposure from the BBC. Liberal Democrats and Green Party seem to not exist. Selected appointments of Governors and Directors General over the last 30 years have changed the BBC's political stance from neutral to right-wing. Alistair Milne must be turning in his grave.

It has become even more true and that is the really frightening thing.

I agree, but why aren't the media (as far as I've seen) calling out Farage for paying the Taliban to take refugees back. No mention of lives lost by our military to that terrorist organisation.

But what are the consequences for the BBC besides strongly worded condemnations? How do you make them stop? A question that progressive forces all over the western world have to keep asking themselves about their reactionary media and political landscapes, increasingly creeping toward fascism.

Rupert Murdoch’s media empire has been complicit in spreading fear and hate across nations. Sky News in Australia an extreme right political propaganda entity monopolising regional Aust. www.theguardian.com/media/2023/s....

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Exactly the same thing has happened in Australia with the ABC National Broadcaster. Endless airtime has been given to the LNP IPA Atlas network of networks, which has interfered in elections and sown misinformation, public dissent and neoconservative ideology. All under the guise of ‘balance’.

Not just the BBC, also GMB giving airplay to those fascists, GB news just a platform for them as well, only C4 News that act independently as far as i can see

Completely true. So maddening that they amplify his fascist smarm at the expense of us all.

Anyone with sense has been screaming it for the last 20 years

It’s more so

It's usually the broadcasters that get seized first in a revolution but the BBC is running its own revolution from within. Unfortunately though it's a revolution against it's own country and people.

The BBC has replaced the word Broadcasting with Bullsh1t. After numerous complaints, some resulting in a response of pure garbage, and one an attempt at three replies over some 3 months on a point that was apparently indefensible, it seems they "inform" through propaganda.

.....and it's gonna get worse untill it becomes unbearable and then the shit is going to hit the fan.

It's not the change it's the rate of change. Brakes well and truly off now.

Absolutely!

Probably a breach of the BBC's "balance" rules to have Farridge on. But the BBC is run by right-wing government puppets, so "balance" goes went of the window long ago.

BBC is still pumping Farage's fist in the air at every opportunity. "If a Farage tells lies and there are no media there to report it, will anyone still vote for it?"

You are 100% right. Why are they still pushing Farage? Why hasn’t Labour sorted out the BBC?

Do we know if Farage's voters get their news from the BBC?

"So that was an expert with the facts....now let's hear from a swivel-eyed fruiter funded by the Kochs"

Sounds like typical western democracy to me

4 MPs! They've got four bloody MPs, same as the Greens, the media are infuriating.

The media, on the whole, appear to want the UK destroyed completely, that is the only outcome to a deform government. The question is, how do we change that when there is so much apathy and disinterest in politics. 'They're all the same'...no, they most definitely are not. Just look stateside.

Can we proscribe them as terrorists because that's what they are? They are all traitors hence their siding with Muskrat re the grooming gangs and Vance re free speech. They are subverting the UK govt. They are traitors no ifs no buts.

And soon all that will be the baseline

Interesting counterpoint of The Sun being banned in Liverpool has contributed to it being a more left wing city. These things matter. Hopefully Zack Polanski and Your Party will start to forcefully address the asymmetrical nature of media, mainstream and social.

I have also complained to the BBC about the scale of coverage of Reform etc. Waste of time of course but if enough people complain it may work. This weekend I posted that BBC website had almost 25% of news items relating to them. It’s the sensationalism of the headlines like this that worry me too

Ofcom got no teeth or look the other way half the time, when that Canadian toss pot comic on GB news said starve the disabled and shoot them, on the Patrick Christy show, Ofcom did nothing about it, this country gone to the pits

Fox News, but taxpayer-funded. How did this happen?

The thing is that many people do not read much beyond headlines. Although the BBC claimed in their response to me that the article was balanced, the headline was unnecessarily inflammatory. There may have been a handful of angry people, whipped up by Reform. Headlines like this do not help, FFS BBC

Don't pay the TV licence perfectly legal.

I used to shake my head at the ‘defund the BBC’ knuckle draggers. More recently, my position on this has changed. The broadcasting has become a danger to safe society.

A BBC report on the recent Asylum Hotels protests claimed that "Large crowds were gathered at various Hotels across the country". Since when were gatherings of 30 to 50 people large crowds?

BBC and Farage orchestrated Brexit. Thanks a bunch to them!

One of the reasons I don’t pay the licence fee.💚

Leaning all the way out looking for the Overton window.

Isn't that a direct consequence of governments being allowed to appoint the heads of the BBC? (Which, of course, guarantees anything but impartiality)

Guess where I posted this 3 months ago? Go on, 'ave a stab. It wasn't on my own profile. bsky.app/profile/stev...

I was unfortunately incapacitated for most of 2018-20 & witness to plenty of screen time of MSM news on most terrestrial/digital/web channels. The pro-Farage/Brexit bias across the board is as strong now as it was then and anyone who says otherwise is sniffing some mighty powerful solvents!

Even Channel4 normalised voices like Rees-Mogg by portraying him as "entertaining", when in fact he was always dangerous.

@georgemonbiot.bsky.social it's so blatant, the gaslighting is driving us mad!

So many parallels with Canada and the CBC.