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Errorboros OP t1_jbwgvfv wrote

In case you missed it, this is the BBC reporting on how the BBC got in trouble with the BBC after a commentator for the BBC tweeted something that conservatives didn't like.

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alexanderpas t1_jbwugk6 wrote

It's actually a good thing that articles like this can exist.

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Embarrassed_Fix9713 t1_jby82hy wrote

honest he did say language rather than acts, very decisive rhetoric is being used to turn people against any sort of refugee or asylum seeker.

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stonedPict t1_jbycbfr wrote

also the nazis were originally planning to send jews to camps in madagascar (technically it was a polish plan from 37 and the nazis considered it in 1940 but semantics)

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AlternativeFormer559 t1_jbx3zmz wrote

It's coming to something when the most astute and progressive voice in British politics is a multimillionaire ex-footballer. But good luck to him, he's got my vote.

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Haircut117 t1_jbydfiq wrote

I would argue that Jonathan Pie (aka Tom Walker) is far better than Gary on both counts. Unfortunately he doesn't have the same following.

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24-Hour-Hate t1_jcdb3ap wrote

What gets me is that it's not even fucking progressive! When all this kicked off I looked up the tweet and the policy and I was just shocked at just how...tepid the tweet actually was compared to what I expected considering how angry some people were/are. I mean, we're at the point where saying you don't like a policy and stating some facts about it is considered progressive? We can't accept this. We cannot concede this to conservatives. Reality is not negotiable.

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BeingEnglishIsACult t1_jbwnsd4 wrote

Can they write a headline: Head of BBC is a Tory stooge.

Or does that make them impartial?

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Errorboros OP t1_jbwsbac wrote

"Contact Between Dick and Johnson Raises Questions As BBC Head Shafts Lineker"

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BigOmet t1_jbxfic6 wrote

That's more like a Daily Mail headline but they're not that clever

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VoDoka t1_jbxctnn wrote

The BBC trilemma with all 3 corners of that triangle being the BBC...

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pulltheanimal t1_jbyiiqg wrote

Seems like a plot line from the comedy W1A which fictitiously followed the inner workings of the BBC.

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YoggyYog t1_jbwtxfs wrote

But that’s literally what happened

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IntrusiveIndustries t1_jbx49u1 wrote

Well they didn't like it, it's not bias if it's true.

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IntrusiveIndustries t1_jbx8hty wrote

The Conservative party. Not the faux ideology people misguidedly make their whole personality.

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IntrusiveIndustries t1_jbx9w5k wrote

But Alan sugar can tweet all the racists tweets he likes with impunity. So it's seems the policy is whatever the Conservatives don't like.

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doctorkanefsky t1_jbxi3tt wrote

I don’t know how to explain this without being rude about it, but Alan Sugar and Andrew Neil getting away with tweeting Conservative Party talking points while David Attenborough and Gary Lineker being punished for deviating from the script while the BBC chairman is under investigation for bribing his appointer with an 800,000 pound loan makes a mockery of the impartiality the BBC is mandated to uphold by charter.

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IamStrqngx t1_jbx8586 wrote

Did your feelings get hurt?

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IamStrqngx t1_jbx97uw wrote

"left wing bias" if you say so.

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RailwayFox t1_jbzr53b wrote

My....person Have you (sorry if I'm assuming your pronouns) ever been on Reddit?

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IamStrqngx t1_jbx9m5y wrote

Most big subreddits are full of incels. r/memes and r/dankmemes are prime examples

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bigsoftee84 t1_jbxmud4 wrote

Interesting how you go from 'balancing' to trolling.

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soldforaspaceship t1_jbzbp4i wrote

Do you think laughing at your own jokes makes you sound smarter? It doesn't.

The point they are making is that the BBC had no issue when Linekar criticized Qatar. Or when he criticized Corbyn. So it is exposing a bias at the BBC.

Conservatives is a term given to mean supporters of the Conservative party.

You seemed very confused so I hope that cleared it all up for you.

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thisistheSnydercut t1_jbxldhg wrote

Hey you could always set up a protest if you feel like your political opinion is being ignored?

Oh wait. You can't. Because they made it illegal. Because they're fucking Nazis.

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HardlyAnyGravitas t1_jbyiyml wrote

If Reddit does have a left-wing bias, why do you think that is?

How do you explain a (any) bias in a platform that doesn't editorialise and that anyone can contribute to?

There are plenty of right-wing subreddits. The fact that they're unpopular and filled with nut-jobs maybe says that being 'left-wing' isn't, in fact, a bias but just what human decency looks like when you take away establishment propaganda.

Just a thought.

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