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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 But for a certain group of anti-BBC campaigners who's views on sexuality an marriage are out of date with the modern reality this sort of thing sends them mental with anger.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.

 

[Northernstorirs]

Steph McGovern hosting HIGNFY. She's as funny as a burning orphanage. Another leech on the gravy train.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Had the misfortune to hear Radio 5 between 7-8 tonight. What absolute shite. Jermain Jenas, Michael Brown and some BBC prick. The show should be called Slow, Slower, Slowest.

 

[Mon Autre]

I guess this is the kind of impartiality Tim Davie can get behind. Stories about racist vigilantes being presented as feel good puff pieces.

And yes, I did dig a little deeper about the people mentioned in the piece (and their extremist accounts which were tagged by the BBC journalist on twitter) before branding them racist vigilantes.

 

[Blue Mist]

I see the BBC have wisely spent the taxpayers money on a promo piece for Oscar Pistorius. Apparently it beats any Rag propaganda hands down saying what a great bloke he is. It doesn't even mention his girlfriend by name and covers the 'incident' as a virtual accident. They have already had to pull the trailer for it as it drew so many complaints. Nice to see our money being well spent

 

[Trevor Morley's Tache]

Not sure about privatising the BBC, but they do need to their act together before they disappear up their own arse.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I see the BBC have wisely spent the taxpayers money on a promo piece for Oscar Pistorius. Apparently it beats any Rag propaganda hands down saying what a great bloke he is. It doesn't even mention his girlfriend by name and covers the 'incident' as a virtual accident. They have already had to pull the trailer for it as it drew so many complaints. Nice to see our money being well spent

I think many liberal types are conflicted by Pistorius. On one hand he was the triumph of overcoming adversity to triumph over disability, but then he overcame it enough to do domestic violence and murder which sort of spoils the fairy story.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Steph McGovern hosting HIGNFY. She's as funny as a burning orphanage. Another leech on the gravy train.

what from Channel 5?

 

[bluethrunthru]

I think many liberal types are conflicted by Pistorius. On one hand he was the triumph of overcoming adversity to triumph over disability, but then he overcame it enough to do domestic violence and murder which sort of spoils the fairy story.

I'm not. He's a **** who murdered his girlfriend. The number of limbs he has is immaterial to his crime.

 

[Mazzarelli's Swiss Cheese]

I'm not. He's a **** who murdered his girlfriend. The number of limbs he has is immaterial to his crime.

That my friend is true equality.

 

[Blue Mist]

I think many liberal types are conflicted by Pistorius. On one hand he was the triumph of overcoming adversity to triumph over disability, but then he overcame it enough to do domestic violence and murder which sort of spoils the fairy story.

And the documentary virtually ignores that. The next documentary will no doubt focus on what a good doctor Harold Shipman was.