It's not working - is it?

[threegee]

No, I'm not talking about the EU, I'm talking about the BBC's undertaking to be good during the referendum campaign, and give fair voice to both sides.  This time it's not the "Fruitcakes and Swivel-eyed Loonies" complaining, it's Labour Grassroots Out.

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Ms Hoey said: “For years, the BBC has not allowed the case for Brexit to be heard properly and all too often they treated advocates as dangerous xenophobes. 

“As the campaign has got underway, this research shows that – although they are now at least talking to supporters off Brexit – it is reluctantly, and they still give undue and unfair prominence to the remain side. 

“This seems to be an institutional bias, and in the interest of democracy, it must stop, urgently."

Well, what took you so long to notice Kate, Ronnie, etc?!  It's entirely unhealthy to have our publicly funded state broadcaster using a minority interest, dwindling circulation, left-of-center, newspaper as a recruitment ground, and manual for its political direction.  When the BBC starts spreading its recruitment advertising revenue across the entire press spectrum we'll of have a positive indication that the British public can consider holding the BBC in the universal respect it once earned.

Just at the moment, it remains the mouthpiece of an unholy alliance of Blairite socialist and international big-business interests, and has little right to use the British moniker. A declaration that it will not accept any more money laundered through the EU graft machine would also go a long way to restoring confidence.

 

[Malcolm Robinson]

https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/653836/BBC-biased-Brexit-EU-referendum-Newsnight-Question-Time

[Malcolm Robinson]

Would you bite the hand that feeds you

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/eureferendum/11953172/EU-referendum-bias-row-after-EU-pays-BBC-charity-9m.html

[threegee]

5 hours ago, Malcolm Robinson said:

Would you bite the hand that feeds you

I'm not the near sole beneficiary of a government tax; I don't have a statutory obligation to be impartial; I'm not a former state monopoly, and I don't pretend to be politically neutral.

The real problem with the BBC is that it's totally lost in an increasingly commercial world.  The extent to which they are lost is vividly illustrated by Lord Hall's current moan that "We can't win against deep pockets of Netflix".  Has Lord Hall even considered that the BBC shouldn't ever be in the same market as Netflix?  How about "Nation shall deliver Hollywood movies unto nation." Lord Hall?

[Maggie/915]

Dare I say 'Market Forces'.

Oops I said it , now I just wait with baited breath .

netflix sky and all .