Has the BBC become a Tory tool?

[TinFoilHat]

The mental gymnastics they are using this morning to justify the recession is staggering.

"The UK is in technical recession. However this is measured differently depending on which country it is..."

 

[bluethrunthru]

exhibit A

 

[bluethrunthru]

Going big on Navalny and Trump on the news at 10 - helps take the by-elections down to 3rd slot - The hand of Gibb

 

[The Light Was Yellow Sir]

World at One on radio 4 following 2 astounding by election wins for Labour. Obviously a big discussion on who the first interview should be with ensued with a decision, you‘d imagine, whether to focus on Labour win or Tory loss? How on earth then did the coin come down on Farage? Another casualty of what will, hopefully at least, become known as the worst government since WW2.

 

[lloydie]

I never thought it was possible to be this tone deaf.

Just a reminder that the client journalist Nick Robinson is a rag **** from Altrincham.

Who I despise more is really going to vex me.

 

[gordondaviesmoustache]

Cunts on the left think it’s right-wing, and cunts on the right think it’s left-wing.

imo, it‘s fairly neutral politically, except in some respects, like the Royal Family. It’s embarrassingly pro-Royal. And ridiculously middle-class.

But overall, on the news and political side, I think it gets it about right.

 

[Chris in London]

Cunts on the left think it’s right-wing, and cunts on the right think it’s left-wing.

imo, it‘s fairly neutral politically, except in some respects, like the Royal Family. It’s embarrassingly pro-Royal. And ridiculously middle-class.

But overall, on the news and political side, I think it gets it about right.

I don't think it's possible to view the BBC as having one political stance because different components within the BBC act in different ways.

Nick Robinson* and Laura Kuenssberg have been tory stooges for some time.

Question Time and Radio 4's Today programme were both unashamedly pro-brexit.

Yet Newsnight has for some time been deeply scathing of the government. The fact-checking is scrupulous and frequently calls out Government lies

Overall the BBC News output has been fairly tame.

There is always something in the argument that goes 'if you are getting flack from both sides you must be doing something right', but it does seem to me to be a bit simplistic. But when one side is the Guardian and the Mirror and the other side is GB News, somewhere in the middle is the centre ground of the Tory party. I don't think that's exactly neutral.

* Nick Robinson both was chairman of the Young Conservatives in Cheshire and is a life-long rag. I imagine he doesn't have much to look forwards to these days.

 

[TinFoilHat]

Tory K Gonna Tory.

 

[bluethrunthru]

Tory K Gonna Tory.

 

[The Future’s Blue!]

She’s a Tory spokesperson, not a political commentator.