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The bbc tends to get criticised for being biased by everybody. Conservatives claim it's biased to the left. The left claim it's biased to the right. Palestinian claim it's biased towards Israelis, Israelis claim it's biased towards Palestinians.

I tend to find anybody making claims that the bbc is biased tend to be closed minded fools.

Saw this yesterday - it's absolutely brilliant .

If anyone wants to claim the media is being anywhere near impartial then they're deluded - even the supposedly "left-wing" BBC is trying every trick in the book to bring Corbyn down.

The BBC is supposed to be neutral, so bang on centre. It's Corbyn hate and emotional blackmail over refugees is clearly revealing its true colours as a centre left media organisation. The ultimate Blairite media company. Followed closely by Channel 4.

How do you define 'centre' though? That's in the eye of the beholder. 'Centre' may be 'in between two extreme positions', but that may not be the truth. 'Centre' may mean 'the truth', but that may offend someone whose 'truth' is different.

Centre and impartiality are terms that do not mean the BBC doesn't offend anyone's sensibilities. Ultimately it can only attempt to ensure everything it reports is factual and relevant. I don't claim the BBC always lives up to that, but compared to Sky, it's a paragon of virtue.

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Sky isn't licence fee funded, so they can do whatever they want.

Yes left or right wing is subjective sometimes, but the BBC have been blatantly biased against Corbyn and towards refugees. Regardless of left or right wing, the BBCs reporting is meant to be just that - reporting, minimising as much editorial bias as possible. Recently they've barely been bothering. That is what I oppose.

Yes, which is the price we pay, unfortunately.



Well, this is the problem. I don't think their reporting has been exemplary to be sure, but on the whole I think they have been rather balanced. They haven't accused him of anything and no tirades, but they are reporting on media reactions. The BBC would look rather peculiar if it failed to report on the great media interest, even if that media interest (such as the non-singing of the anthem) is pretty stupid.

Count your blessings: as imperfect as the BBC's impartiality may be, and I think it's doing as good a job as fallible humans can, we may be making the best the enemy of the good. Without the BBC there wouldn't even be any attempt by anybody at impartiality.

But Sky don't have nearly the influence the BBC does.

We shouldn't be grateful for the BBC, as we're paying for it through no choice of our own. They owe the public a service to report news in as unbiased a fashion as possible, to appeal to the broadest possible audience.

The BBC know they're not being impartial yet make no attempt to rectify this. Run by centre left liberals, they feel as if they have the right to force their views on the public. The BBC being a publicly funded monopolistic broadcaster means they have a duty to be impartial and don't have the luxury of being biased like Sky can. The BBC are failing miserably.

You have GOT to be kidding me.



And yet I hear plenty of left-liberals who accuse the BBC of being dominated by the Tories. I think that's a suggestion it's doing a hard job very well.

Who the hell watches Sky news unless you're a sky subscriber? Even then you'll watch BBC news too. BBC has a far wider reach than Sky in this country.

You're not understanding my point. Nobody should be criticising the BBC of anything in an ideal world. Of course, that's not humanly achievable but they should be making the attempt not to influence reporting with their own opinions. They're not.

Saw this yesterday - it's absolutely brilliant .

If anyone wants to claim the media is being anywhere near impartial then they're deluded - even the supposedly "left-wing" BBC is trying every trick in the book to bring Corbyn down.

Why should that matter? People might sign up to Sky for their sports channels rather than their news. It doesn't mean Sky should therefore be given a free pass to conduct sloppy reporting.



Well, I don't get the impression they are. I find the BBC does a fairly good job of reporting on other people's opinions, but otherwise makes a decent job of incorporating differing points of view insofar as those differing points of view are commonly held.

In regards to influence, the amount of people who watch Sky/BBC very much matters, obviously.

As a privately funded corporation, Sky can do what it wants - it's the free market. The BBC, however, cannot as it is publicly funded.

You've obviously not been paying attention recently. I've already stated their handling of the refugee crisis is very one sided, highlighting the plight of the refugees but not acknowledging the fact they chose to trek through Europe rather than stay in the first or even second safe country they got to. And don't even get me started about their blatant dislike for Corbyn.

Other news organisations are allowed to express their own views - the BBC are not. I've explained this so many times now.

And you're still wrong. Yes, the other corporations can express their own views, and the BBC has a statutory responsibility to impartiality. But you haven't demonstrated terribly well that the BBC has abandoned that responsibility, merely objected that they haven't given *your* view sufficient credence.

I suspect Sky would run a line about 'why haven't the refugees stayed put in Turkey?' and keep asking that question. While the BBC would ask that question, but then run an article on 'here's the reasons we have heard why they don't stay put in Turkey'.

You can call that bias, if you like, because they don't simply jump to your conclusion, but to me, that's an admirable attempt to get at the truth.

The BBC is certainly not left wing. They refer to Corbyn as left wing yet never refer to Cameron as right wing...

Despite the fact Cameron has just slashed workers rights and cut 4.6 billion from the poorest in society he's portrayed as a centrist by the BBC.

The BBC is supposed to be neutral