This should be interesting.
The BBC‘s new Director-General has told staff if they want to be opinionated columnists or a partisan campaigners on social media they ‘should not be working at the BBC’.
Tim Davie, who took over this week, said the broadcaster needed to ‘urgently champion and recommit to impartiality’.
He insisted his drive was ‘about being free from political bias, guided by the pursuit of truth, not a particular agenda’.
But it came just days after he floated a radical overhaul of the broadcaster’s comedy output in the coming months, over fears it is seen as ‘too one-sided’.
His latest remarks – widely seen as a swipe at woke presenters mouthing off on Twitter – came after he ordered a u-turn on a ban on Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory at Last Night of the Proms.
There isn’t enough popcorn.
But good luck to him anyway.
Just noise toward keeping a license fee. All of White City know the play. Any popcorn will also be fake.
imo it’s a charade to make public believe “Hey, look, we’ve listened and changing”
I have zero confidence any meaningful change will happen – a few token interviews/spots maybe
Even if he’s serious it’s unlikely he will be able to make much progress. He will be evaded, sabotaged and outright disobeyed all the way. Look at the problems President Trump has been having ‘draining the swamp’ – a lot of the US civil service seems to be more or less ignoring his orders and some actually acting to bring him down. Short of sacking the lot and starting again, to include training new people up from scratch in all the mechanics of broadcasting, the BBC is beyond recovery.
That’s what bothers me as well. Davie might be saying the right things about bias and impartiality but will the BBC staff actually take any notice? You may be correct that the whole system is woketarded beyond repair.
@Pete
Sacking every BBC employee or freelancer who’s ‘worked from home’ would be a good start. Same with NHS, Councils etc
Taking that appalling Scots Nationalist and obvious arch Remainer Andrew Marr off the TV would be an actual start
@John
Andrew Marr is an avowed Trotskyite and doesn’t hide it. He be cancelled
“His latest remarks – widely seen as a swipe at woke presenters mouthing off on Twitter – came after he ordered a u-turn on a ban on Rule Britannia and Land of Hope and Glory at Last Night of the Proms.”
As Guido pointed out, the BBC doesn’t do u-turns, they reverse decisions. Maybe somebody should tell The Mail. 😉
https://order-order.com/2020/09/02/bbc-news-semantics/
Someone is doing something different
05.40 05/9/20
BBC.co.uk/health Rachel Schraer health reporter
4 hours ago
Headline
CORONOVIRUS TESTS ‘COULD BE PICKING UP DEAD VIRUS’
‘The main test for coronovirus is so sensitive it could be picking up fragments of dead virus from old infections scientists say…’
That is so against the usual narrative it won’t stay for long unless something really is stirring in the belly of the beast.
It’s true and has been well known by ‘sceptics’ for months. The PCR test also frequently doesn’t distinguish between different Coronaviruses
No doubt BBC & msm will bury, same as they did with WHO face masks change due to Gov’ts’ pressure
Come the inquiry “Look, we reported it (once)”. I’ve noticed BBC now use this tactic frequently by reporting on BBC R4/World service news between 2am and 4am