Mark BurtonNov 10
It seems to me that the pressure on the #BBC is, at least in part from the Israel lobby. The clumsy edit (not doctoring) of the Trump incitement to violence speech was just the catalyst for a right wing faction to nobble the DG.
The bias of BBC news has actually been the other way. Who appointed those Board members? Tory governments.
Listen to the 2 interviews after the 7.00 news on radio 4.
Show threadMark BurtonNov 10
As I was saying. Monbiot making v similar
points. The #BBC bias is rightwing not leftwing. It's been statistically documented.
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:codfx2epdduamfycuyi5fjpb/post/3m5aw5dhwok2h
George Monbiot (@georgemonbiot.bsky.social)

Once every 20 years or so, the director-general of the BBC is forced to resign for being insufficiently rightwing. Alastair Milne in 1987. Greg Dyke in 2004. Tim Davie in 2025. The great irony is that the BBC was in all cases profoundly biased towards established power. But just not biased enough …

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@markhburton

Suspect the BBC is a symptom of a much deeper problem concerning foreign capital and its control over UK politics and media, but it's inevitable that such issues will eventually cause the public to lose faith in the BBC and allow those same forces to privatise it along with everything else.

It's quite sickening to see how any service that's not fully commercially exploited is subject to corruption.

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@ReggieHere
And the supreme irony of Nigel the Stockbroker looking forward to "a return to Reithian values"
#BBC #NigelTheStockbroker
Nov 10 at 9:03amWeb
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@markhburton

Well, yes. Why more people aren't seeing him as a foreign asset is beyond me.