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Have I Got News For You

September 4, 2022 Longrider 7

Well, no, not really. The BBC is facing fresh scrutiny over anti-Tory bias after Boris Johnson and Liz Truss were subjected to a relentless barrage of highly personal attacks on primetime […]

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Popcorn Time

September 3, 2020 Longrider 10

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 […]

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Yes, You Are

June 6, 2020 Longrider 19

Naga Munchetty doesn’t think that her job is to simply present the news. Broadcasters try to be impartial but they are not ‘robots or idiots’, […]

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Auntie and Self Awareness

May 26, 2020 Longrider 24

Perhaps, more accurately a staggering lack of self-awareness. The BBC has suggested wealthier viewers could be asked to pay more as the broadcaster prepares to end free licences […]

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How Totalitarian

March 29, 2019 Longrider 2

Some folk seem to be missing the USSR. BBC journalists have publicly criticised Question Time’s decision to debate the teaching of tolerance of LGBT relationships in […]

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Panodrama

February 24, 2019 Longrider 5

I’ve not seen all of the footage as I just haven’t had the time. However, I’ll make a couple of points from my early impressions. […]