I greatly appreciate the BBC. Their existence keeps the rest of the media honest. When Rupert has his way with the government, there will be nothing to stop Sky News becoming the same right wing lying trash that Fox News has become. Even the Daly Mail has to keep one foot in reality, however much the BBC tracks it.
But that doesn't mean I don't lambast it for that which it does badly. And it is very much stuck in a comfort zone. With honourable exceptions such as Panorama and some sections of Newsnight (both of which have suffered in recent years; Panorama has been all but cancelled, Newsnight is constantly under a budget constraint other depts seem to avoid) their jounalism has withered.
Uninterested, disinterested ? Ms Truss, it doesn't matter. They don't care. Really. People who report on politics for the BBC don't care about policy, aren't intrigued by implications, don't see contradictions. They just go for quotes and scuttlebutt about who's up or who's down.
This matters. Don't you see ? Really !! This is exactly why blogs came into their own, because the trad med were doing such a f-ck awful job of looking at what was going on, reducing it down to an ongoing series of "I'm a politician, get me outta here". keep to the Fen Causeway
"So a bunch of luvvies tell another bunch of luvvies that they were marvellous dahling kissie kissie mwah mwah. And that proves .. what precisely ?"
Just that, as usual, you prefer jeering to argument and evidence - a luxury the BBC doesn't have. The "luvvies" have choices and their choices coincide with the opinions of the majority of Brits and many people in other countries. You ignore the survey results.
"I greatly appreciate the BBC. Their existence keeps the rest of the media honest."
One one hardly have thought so from your diatribe. I welcome your more considered statement.
"But that doesn't mean I don't lambast it for that which it does badly. And it is very much stuck in a comfort zone."
Oh sure, it must be terribly comfortable to be the subject of government attempts to control what you say and left and right wing complaints of bias, not to mention the complaints of special-interest groups such as the Zionist lobby.
"With honourable exceptions such as Panorama and some sections of Newsnight (both of which have suffered in recent years; Panorama has been all but cancelled, Newsnight is constantly under a budget constraint other depts seem to avoid) their jounalism has withered."
Nobody claims the BBC is perfect, nor that it hasn't suffered from cuts.
"Uninterested, disinterested ? Ms Truss, it doesn't matter."
Can you imagine the BBC giving a reply like that.
"They don't care. Really. People who report on politics for the BBC don't care about policy, aren't intrigued by implications, don't see contradictions. They just go for quotes and scuttlebutt about who's up or who's down."
Totally ridiculous generalisation based on a few personal experiences evidently seen in an extremely biased way - pretty much par for your comments on many groups you don't happen to like.
"This matters. Don't you see ? Really !! This is exactly why blogs came into their own, because the trad med were doing such a f-ck awful job"
Oh really, based on what evidence ? The fact is that, as indicated in the quotations I cited, the majority of the population still relies on and trusts the BBC. But of course they're all fools and you know better. Maybe it's because I'm a Londoner - that I moved to Nice.
