Nissan, the BBC, and Brexit

[threegee]

The Guradianistas at the BBC aren't being entirely honest in reporting what Carlos Ghosn the CEO of Nissan UK is saying by selectively reporting him.  What Ghosn is looking for is the government to channel some of the revenues from counter-taxing German luxury cars back to Nissan to compensate them for any EU protectionism and Brussels hubris.  Obviously no one wants any tariffs, and if sanity prevails there won't be any, but the Brussels bureaucrats are in a hole and their empire threatened, so rationalism may not prevail.

Ghosn is being very careful about not issuing any threats, and is only talking about competitiveness, but this doesn't seem to be good enough for elements at the BBC.  Nor is he pressing his views, and that he's not mentioning the windfall boost to Nissan's competitiveness from the lower exchange rate is understandable, although it's not understandable for the BBC to completely fail to question him about this aspect!  In fact he's doing his duty and acting in the interests of Nissan, its shareholders and it's employees.  It a pity that the BBC Guardianistas need to be frequently embarrassed into acting in the interests of their own "shareholders"..

 

[moe19]

Surely you are not saying the BEEB is biased Threegee, 

I have just about given up on the Biased Broadcasting Corporation and on SKY. 

I have grown bored of watching programs with audiences top heavy with left-wing  Luvvies  who scream racist or sexist at anyone who dares to disagree with them

[mercuryg]

Ghosn is also notorious for taking the business where it's best for his   Interests. He's a hell of a businessman. Too early yet to say, as we're still part of the the EU, but I would say he's a healthy barometer in terms of what others may do. He isn't without credentials.

[threegee]

On 30/09/2016 at 17:45, moe19 said:

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I have grown bored of watching programs with audiences top heavy with left-wing  Luvvies  who scream racist or sexist at anyone who dares to disagree with them

They SAY they learned something from the referendum result - I wonder!

BBC sacked me for being a white man... even though I work in radio

Maybe it was just that Jon didn't contribute enough to the non-stop wall of hilariously funny anti-Ukip "jokes" before the last GE?  You know, the ones that now cheerfully flout both the BBC Charter and electoral law in the six week purdah periods.  OK, so he's not a Guardian subscriber, but why would he waste his money when there are so many surplus copies littered around Broadcasting House?

[moe19]

And dont forget about this weeks latest unbelievable appointment,....... you could not make it up if you tried 

 

  The head of the BBC was accused of ‘extreme cronyism’ last night for appointing an ex-Labour minister as the broadcaster’s new radio chief without advertising the position.

 Former culture secretary James Purnell was yesterday promoted to the specially created role of director of radio and education

The move means the former Labour MP will now have ‘editorial oversight’ over the largest public-service radio operation in the world, despite having no experience in programme-making.

But because he is so inexperienced, Beeb chiefs are hiring another Director of Radio on an expected salary of up to £150k to help the £295k a year head of radio on a “day-in-day out” basis.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3816811/Ex-Labour-minister-goes-one-BBC-non-job-295k-s-not-squeak-protest-Leftie-luvvies.html

 

[threegee]

Analysis by News Watch of BBC Brexit coverage

Well worth scan reading the whole thing - Maggie!

http://news-watch.co.uk/bbc-brexit-collection-strong-bias-against-leaving-the-eu/

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...there were no attempts in any programme to explore the benefits of leaving the EU, but conversely, Brexit came under sustained negative attack. This was reflected in the balance of contributions and comment contained within the items. Analysis by News-watch shows that only 23% of contributors in the programmes as a whole spoke in favour of Brexit, against 58% in favour of Remain and 19% who gave a neutral or factual commentary.

Nine programmes and six features, amounting to 5 hours 20 minutes of programming, were strongly anti-Brexit, contained unchallenged predictions that civil unrest and rioting were now on the horizon and cast the ‘out’ vote in negative terms, inferring that the result had been a consequence of racism and xenophobia. The balance of programme guests in all of these items was strongly – and sometimes overwhelmingly – pro-Remain.

By contrast, only two programmes, from the series Points of View, were clearly Eurosceptic in tone. They both attacked the EU project as a whole, but did no explore the possibilities presented by Brexit.

A group of six documentaries in the Collection, originally broadcast in 2009 and 2012, looked critically at the EU and examined claims that there were structural faults in the EU project, especially in relation to the euro. However, the vast majority of guests on these programmes were wholly in favour of the EU project, or were EU officials, and as such the issues were observed through a strongly pro-EU lens.

A further eight programmes have been classed as neutral. Many of these, such as the comedy programmes Dead Ringers and The Now Show, contained strong anti-Brexit content, or expressed doubts about it, but did contain some balancing material.

The items that were strongly anti-Brexit were editions of culture series Front Row, The Briefing Room, six editions of the feature Brexit Street on the news programme PM, one edition of A Point of View, How to Make a Brexit (a one-off documentary about Greenland’s exit from the EU), Farming Today, More Less, The Food Programme, The Bottom Line and Call You and Yours.

In some of these, the range of anti-Brexit opinion was astonishing and light years from any definition of ‘impartiality’ and there was no balancing comparable pro-Brexit material. A majority of the country had voted ‘out’ on June 23, but this was not reflected in the space given to each side of the debate, or the thematic emphases of the various programmes.

The Food Programme, for example, contained predictions from ten contributors ranging through civil unrest, substantial food price rises, the demise of food businesses and years of turmoil.  Only one contributor (described disparagingly as a ‘former speech writer for Nigel Farage’), thought that Brexit could have positive outcomes.

And in The Bottom Line, presented by Evan Davis, three strong supporters of Remain (one a former Liberal Democrat candidate) feared a drying up of investment, the introduction of tariffs, an increasing complexity of doing business through the need for additional paperwork, price rises, unfair treatment of workers, unwise and impractical restrictions on immigration, a curtailing of the opportunities available to young people, and a rise of xenophobia and racism to the extent there was imminent danger of ‘personal attack’ for those supporting Remain. They were ranged against a contributor from Switzerland, who – although accepting briefly that Brexit could be positive – also warned that the process was very complex.

In all anti-Brexit programmes, presenters worked with the contributors to ensure that the negatives of Brexit were pushed to the maximum extent, and they did not challenge their extreme claims, for example, about civil unrest and racism.

Analysis of the contributions across the series as a whole raises other major issues of imbalance. Of the 59 politicians to appear, 37 were pro-Remain. With academics and lawyers, 11 supported Remain and none favoured Leave, and with businessmen and financial experts, 19 were Remainers and only six wanted ‘out’.  Another striking imbalance was that, across the board, 41% of the speakers who supported Leave were ‘ordinary’ contributors (i.e. members of the public with no obvious expertise, for example, in vox pops), compared to only 27% of pro-EU guests. In terms of the number of words spoken, members of the public contributed 34% of the Leave total, compared to only 8% on the Remain side.

Eleven of the 20 ‘ordinary’ speakers who spoke in favour of Brexit were from two locations in Northern England, Thornaby-on-Tees and Wakefield. All of these were from social classes D and E and together they were responsible for 80% of the words spoken by ‘ordinary’ Leave supporters.

News-watch research has shown that such serious imbalances have been a feature of BBC coverage of EU-related issues since 1999.

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What we now have is a sustained ideological attack on traditional working people (particularly those in the North) from the state broadcaster, and an attempt to diminish, disparage and sideline their values.

The only decent thing the BBC can do is to get rid of Evan Davis and Ian Katz.  As long as they hold a senior positions at the BBC nothing can even start to change.

[moe19]

BBC is still running its project  fear remain campaign,

I was watching early morning news this week and the presenter was giving a dramatic warning about how IMPORTED bread milk and eggs would increase in price

I want a TV that does not receive BBC programs so I no longer have to pay them the yearly ransom to keep its luvvies in champagne

[mercuryg]

"I want a TV that does not receive BBC programs so I no longer have to pay them the yearly ransom to keep its luvvies in champagne"

Not necessary, Moe! Simply never watch anything on the BBC, or any programmes as broadcast live, and use a catch up service (NOT BBC iPlayer) and you can legally cancel your licence. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

 

[moe19]

6 hours ago, mercuryg said:

 

Not necessary, Moe! Simply never watch anything on the BBC, or any programmes as broadcast live, and use a catch up service (NOT BBC iPlayer) and you can legally cancel your licence. http://www.moneysavingexpert.com/utilities/tv-licence

That is a very interesting read mercury, I believe at one time you had to have a license to watch any TV  station

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Edited October 17, 2016 by moe19

[moe19]

Time to get tough ? but not with the BBC .

 

 

Edited October 17, 2016 by moe19

[moe19]