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[bluethrunthru]

I’m not sure why it’s about time it happened. It’s not like it’s something that’s been lacking. I don’t think anyone’s ever watched Strictly and thought “this is good, but it’s seriously lacking a same sex couple dancing together”.

But it’s not a bad thing, nor a good thing, it’s just a thing. A thing that shouldn’t have any negative or positive reaction any more than any other couple they’ve ever had dancing together. Just watch (or don’t watch) it for it just being another two people dancing together and nowt else.

agreed. But for a certain group of anti-BBC campaigners who's views on sexuality an marriage are out of date with the modern reality this sort of thing sends them mental with anger. The same sort of people who watch documentaries on wartime Britain with a glow from looking at the past whilst watching footage from dancehalls of women dancing together ( men were at the front ) and enjoyed reading Brideshead Revisited

 

[Northernstorirs]

Nearly spat my coffee out on Saturday listening to the 5 live news report of the horrific beheading in Paris. The BBC reporter commentated as if the act was justified because the teacher showed a picture of Mohammed (despite asking Muslim students to leave the class).

Just read the news as it is.

 

[City Hobgoblin]

Channel 4 News provides a much more questioning and sometimes critical coverage, when reporting on this government, than the BBC has done for years. The BBC news on both TV and radio is almost painfully ‘balanced’.

 

[bluethrunthru]

errr - no - but maybe some peado legitimising right wing papers need to give their heads a wobble

 

[Fame Monster]

This was the tweet liked by the BBC director of news - Fran Unsworth - in the week before the general election just in case anyone was in any doubt about where her sympathies lie.

Tim Davie needs to root out those who've already shown their colours if the BBC is to survive and that means people like Unsworth.

 

[bluethrunthru]

This was the tweet liked by the BBC director of news - Fran Unsworth - in the week before the general election just in case anyone was in any doubt about where her sympathies lie.

Tim Davie needs to root out those who've already shown their colours if the BBC is to survive and that means people like Unsworth.

No you misunderstand - its only the "wrong" people making the "wrong" comments on the "wrong" platforms that are a cause for concern here - Lineker commenting on kids drowning in the channel = bad - Unsworth liking tweets by Johnson no matter how offensive - move along folks nothing to see here

 

[Mon Autre]

This was the tweet liked by the BBC director of news - Fran Unsworth - in the week before the general election just in case anyone was in any doubt about where her sympathies lie.

Tim Davie needs to root out those who've already shown their colours if the BBC is to survive and that means people like Unsworth.

Should he root out himself? Having run as a Tory councillor? He's certainly already shown his colours.

 

[Fame Monster]

Should he root out himself? Having run as a Tory councillor? He's certainly already shown his colours.

I'm not sure I would have hired him in the first place tbh because of that but he looks like he's doing a good job even though it's a case of rearranging deckchairs on the Titanic after Lord Hall's stint.

The big difference here though is that he didn't like a party political post on Twitter or become a Tory councillor at the same time he worked at the BBC.

 

[Alan Harper's Tash]

This was the tweet liked by the BBC director of news - Fran Unsworth - in the week before the general election just in case anyone was in any doubt about where her sympathies lie.

Tim Davie needs to root out those who've already shown their colours if the BBC is to survive and that means people like Unsworth.

Maybe Boris had just offended everyone in a room and what he said wasn’t biased, merely reporting on an event.

 

[Fame Monster]

Maybe Boris had just offended everyone in a room and what he said wasn’t biased, merely reporting on an event.

You're clutching at straws to put it mildly.