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[DeeLicious]

How do you feel about BBC political correctness - the extent to which they promote minorities of all kinds these days? Does it make you want to watch the BBC more, or put you off watching the BBC?

[cupid04]

Will the missed episode of HIGNFY with Jo Brand be shown once the elections are over?

[naomi24]

The BBC is politically biased. I take much of what it reports with a pinch of salt until I’ve looked elsewhere for confirmation. And yes, the BBC is very PC. I don't trust it as I once did.

[pixie374]

Everyone is biased... the BBC has never been any better than anyone else as far as I have seen.

[naomi24]

//the BBC has never been any better than anyone else //

I disagree. At one time the BBC was respected worldwide as a doyen of truth. Unfortunately that's no longer so.

[pixie374]

Fair enough. I have never seen them that way from the misleading articles they do.

[naomi24]

They've come in for significant criticism in recent years for their clear left-leaning bias on Question Time and Have I got News for You.

[margarettom]

I rarely watch the BBC these days, but it's not just because of the forced ( rather than natural like ITV ) promotion of minorities and women. I just find most of their programs don't interest me. I find most of their drama unwatchable ( except The Bodyguard and even that had a disproportionate number of women in top positions ) and much prefer drama on ITV. I find a lot of the BBC presentation patronising. Do enjoy the occasional program on BBC4. They tend to treat viewers more as intelligent adults. I never watch news on any channel. Too much speculation and social issues, as opposed to real news.

[tiggerblue10]

I watch programmes because I want to watch them and not because of the demographic portrayed. I want to be entertained and enlightened and the thought of the promoting of minorities hadn't crossed my mind.

Which programmes and minorities are you referring to?

[gingejbee]

I suspect the minorities are.....anyone who isn't "just like you", portrayed anywhere (including ads).

[Spicerack]

https://pics.me.me/left-margaret-of-anjou-right-bbcs-portrayal-of-margaret-30039692.png

[david small]

The biased broadcasting corporation is so into diversity that it’s constrained its variety by pandering to its own agenda, and that’s too many it’s.

[Khandro]

Almost as I write, the BBC news channel is putting out (for the n'th time) a documentary 'demonstrating' how so-called popularism is a product of the "far right" with "racist" tendencies, whereas in fact, it comprises of ordinary people of the left and right who are disenchanted with the appalling leadership forced on them by their hapless, parasitical, liberal-elite leadership.

[vetuste_ennemi]

I never watch BBC news, nor, with the exception of "This Week", its political commentary programs, preferring the slightly more objective reporting on Sky.

The BBC's bias is not on the whole conscious: it's based on the presumption that its own world view - and it has one - is self-evidently right and that disagreement with that view is a sign either of intellectual weakness or moral taint (even if half the population is on the "wrong" side as in Brexit).

It's a bias which extends beyond its reporting remit into all its cultural and "entertainment" offerings. The BBC feels it has a moral duty to improve the nation. In that respect it shares the mission of its first Director General, except that what is being offered as "improvement" is very different from anything Lord Reith would have recognised as virtue.

I'm currently watching the first showing of "Ranganation" because I am doing an Open University course on the effect of popular culture on shaping moral attitudes (I lie about the course. It's actually the role of the trans-gender/climate change/vegan alliance in overting the patriarchy.). This is a burden I'm forced to carry as a diligent researcher and disinterested student. That's a quality, of course, which makes me unique in the world of the social sciences, whether we're talking teachers or students.

[Ken4155]

Much ado about nothing, imho.

[10ClarionSt]

The BBC is a pain in the armpit. It promotes all kinds of lunacy and thinks it's doing the job of social services. Last night was a good example, with the programme which included the pampered rich talking about how they can't handle life. This is then put forward as Mental Health Issues. And I don't believe Danny Rose when he said one top premier league club wanted to be sure that he wasn't crazy before they signed him. That sounds like "lost in translation" to me, i.e. his agent said one thing and Rose mis-understood what was said. I just don't believe any club would say that.

[thesshhh]

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/9165709/romesh-the-ranganation-irritation/