TV News Coverage of Russia's Victory Day Celebrations.

[sultanbev]

There are now at least 3 academic studies that clearly show the BBC is biased in its reporting to the establishment. If the establishment is 'left-wing' then the BBC could be perceived to be left wing. If the establishment is right-wing, then the BBC is perceived to be rightwing. You could say, why would the BBC bite the hand that feeds?

As the current British establishment has passed the right wing and gone out the other side, I'll leave the reader to work out where the BBC stands. But I've boycotted the BBC for over a decade now.

[steve_holmes_11]

Let's not forget.

The peanut gallery demanded Doctor Who had to be male.
And when Doctor Who regenerated as male, it was the wrong kind...

Whether that tells you more about the BBC or its critics, is entirely a matter for you.

[Ithoriel]

I look forward to the day Dr Who regenerates as a dog because we shouldn't be speciesist

[flamingpig0]

There are middle-aged men getting massively upset about how a fictional shape-shifting alien in a children's TV show is depicted.

[Gwydion]

You could say, why would the BBC bite the hand that feeds?

Cos it's supposed to be apolitical?

[pierre the shy]

I look forward to the day Dr Who regenerates as a dog because we shouldn't be speciesist

Close, but no cigar? 
https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/K9

[John Cook]

I must be watching a different BBC.  It is as much tone as anything else and I concede that bias is frequently very subjective and can be a matter of perception.  But, the Centre for Policy Studies in 2013 found that the BBC was biased and Andrew Marr admitted that the BBC's "innate liberal bias", his words, was because it employs "an abnormally large proportion of young people, ethnic minorities and almost certainly gay people". That suggests an imbalance, I think, which will not change as long as the BBC employs an Executive News Editor, whose hard-Left views are in the public domain.

[FierceKitty]

I look forward to the day Dr Who regenerates as a dog because we shouldn't be speciesist

Always a far more feline character, wouldn't you say? Independent, capricious, maddening, but overwhelmingly charismatic.

[flamingpig0]

I must be watching a different BBC.  It is as much tone as anything else and I concede that bias is frequently very subjective and can be a matter of perception.  But, the Centre for Policy Studies in 2013 found that the BBC was biased and Andrew Marr admitted that the BBC's "innate liberal bias", his words, was because it employs "an abnormally large proportion of young people, ethnic minorities and almost certainly gay people". That suggests an imbalance, I think, which will not change as long as the BBC employs an Executive News Editor, whose hard-Left views are in the public domain.

That does kind of suggest that if the BBC was purged of youth, gays, and ethnic minorities it would be a fairer and more balanced organisation. Not at all sure about that being a good idea!

[flamingpig0]

Just an aside, but it looks that if it wasn't for Putin we would have won Eurovision.

[Ithoriel]

I'm not sure a decade old study is a reliable indicator of current bias.

Auntie Beeb's heart may be left wing but her head is most definitely pro-establishment.

Coverage of things Scottish is frequently toeing the party line to a laughable extent.

[flamingpig0]

I'm not sure a decade old study is a reliable indicator of current bias.

Particularly as it is from a self-declared right-wing think tank praised by someone connected to Jimmy Savile

[DecemDave]

That does kind of suggest that if the BBC was purged of youth, gays, and ethnic minorities it would be a fairer and more balanced organisation. Not at all sure about that being a good idea!

Certainly would not be and its more sinister than that. It would include people who Andrew Marr thinks are "almost certainly gay".  Which could be anyone. 

More photos of toy soldiers please Lord Speedy

[DecemDave]

Just an aside, but it looks that if it wasn't for Putin we would have won Eurovision.

One more to his growing list of crimes. 

[Gwydion]

Or his saving grace, depending how you feel about Eurovision!