Bbc Already Biased On Day 1

[Khandro]

I have just looked at this morning's reporting online of Brexit in both the Telegraph and the BBC, has anyone looked? The Telegraph is full of optimism and the BBC is so down beat. High on the BBC UK homepage is Tarzan's usual doom-laden diatribe, and it informs us that the residents of Spain think it is bad (despite nothing having yet happened.)
Recently a group of back-benchers called for some form of action to be taken about BBC bias, do they have a point, or are we in for 2 years of this?

[Khandro]

SP Whatever Tony Hall says, just look for yourself at the 2 examples I give in the OP.

Welcome back jomifl ! but I don't get, "The Spanish economy gets a tremendous boost fron UK expats and holiday makers, so brexit is going to be bad for them." Why is that?

[anneasquith]

The EU will decide the outcome of leaving, " negative" reporting will make no difference, I thought the brexiteers would be really happy today, no...... Still moaning. LOL.

[vulcan42]

SP, you offer links for what you want to prove, do you have a link to support,
\\ What we have here is Leave supporters dancing to a tune that no-one else can hear.//
Just saying it doesn't make it true.

[jno]

Brexiters don't have an Off switch, anne...

[dannyk13]

I find the newsreaders on the BBC ten o'clock news totally devoid of any charisma.They should watch Tom Bradby on the ITV ten/ten thirty o'clock news and see how newsreading should be done.IMO.

[anneasquith]

Jno. I don't understand them, I do wonder if they realize they " won " :-)

[cassa333]

For goodness sake have you no concept or experience of negotiating?

If your negotiating opponent thinks you are wavering because of NEGATIVETY from your own side they are more likely to not give way or up the ante.

[Samjenko]

From AB's recent poll, most people rely on the BBC for their news.
It's no wonder they come on here spouting their ignorant rubbish, daily. Defend the indefensible. Not that the traditional MSM are any better. The whole industry is infected by thick, lefty liberals.

[sp1814]

Over the years, the BBC has been attacked for bias both by the left and the right.

It was attacked for bias on both sides during the Troubles in Northern Island.

It was attacked by her detractors and supporters over its coverage of Baroness Thatcher's funeral.

This is just another verse of that tune.

[sp1814]

vulcan42

Of course I provide links to what I believe.

It's literally what everyone does when they put forward an argument.

My point about this tune is that the BBC isn't biased.

Because of its impartiality, it's the news source that most of us go to when we want the facts.

If the BBC sneakily tried to editorialise by colouring its output by bending the truth, then claims of bias would be entirely right.

But what the BBC is doing is presenting a variety of opinions throughout its organisation, television, radio and online.

When Andrew Marr or John Humphries slaughter opposition leaders, no-one shouts about bias.

We only hear this when one of the sacred cows are prodded.

[Kromovaracun]

Well I'm starting to see how every thread on Answerbank is going to go on this subject for the next two years.

"I think this."

"LOL Your source has a bias! I completely disregard it."

Rinse and repeat, for both sides.

[anneasquith]

So..... If negotiations are not favourable to Britain ( which they won't be ) its the fault of the BBC.?

[Samjenko]

//When Andrew Marr or John Humphries slaughter opposition leaders, no-one shouts about bias.//

Now you're just being silly, sp.

[emmie]

I thought Mrs May did well against Andrew Neil last evening, considering that he can be quite bullish.

[Khandro]

anne //So..... If negotiations are not favourable to Britain ( which they won't be ) its the fault of the BBC.? //

Not quite, but they shouldn't be negative about it. What the BBC says is observed around Europe, saying nothing is better than running straight for a statement from Heseltine, Clegg or some bozo who lives in Alicante writing "bad" in the sand.

[emmie]

i do think that the Countryfile programmes i have watched have been completely negative about Brexit, i thought it was just me but going on aog post, i am not alone. So if that is bias then i would say so, news is often biased in its tone.

[vulcan42]

SP, bias takes many forms, bending the truth or lying is only one way. The favourite methods employed by the BBC is burying them in their regional sites rather than the national news, or ignoring them altogether.

[Old_Geezer]

I would have thought that most of the EU, not just Spain, thought it was bad, letting one country they had previously trapped to help fund the EU, escape.

[hereIam]

Never listen to any of it, it IS going to happen, that's all I care about ...

[Peter Pedant]

// What media outlet is not biased in someway.// lozzie

erm no - the papers are allowed to have a 'view' - Teleg right wing and Grauniad - left leaning and everyone knows

tee vee stations have to be more central and balanced
( tee vee news is more credible apparently)

The beeb making a boob ? or more than one ?
no this time I think

Put simply - because I am speaking to rabid Brexiters and they simple on vuh jam-today-angle. You have to be pretty gormless to swallow the " and £350m a week can be spent on the NHS!" lie after all.

Our wise masters are using c/p to put all EU law into English Law AND search-and-insert "UK" for "EU" in the Great Repeal Bill.
( repealing nothing, but that of course is another story)

yeah so any "EU law/rule" now reads "UK law/rule" - clevuh huh ?

the difficult of today 9am is that s/o has at last noticed something like
"EU law is superior and takes precedence to UK law on this matter"
would now read
"UK law is superior and takes precedence to UK law on this matter"
and as such a rule of law is rendered into nonsense

Oh god no tell me no it cant be that simple ?
'they' have taken a year to realise things are not that simple ?
the alternative fact is that all the above is 'not true'

please please let the alternative fact be the valid one for once
Let sanity prevail ! etc etc

our legislators cant be this bad and unprepared!

fact: they caaaaaaaan !