Playing the refs: Boris turns on the Beeb

By PeraclesPlease on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 1:00pm |

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https://www.theguardian.com/media/2019/dec/15/boris-johnson-threatens-bbc-with-two-pronged-attack

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I could be wrong but for the last couple decades I've gotten the impression that the Beeb is looked upon over there a lot like PBS is here: conservative people kvetch it's overrun by liberal spin and the liberal people bitch they go out of their way to introduce invalid conservative spin....

The difference between them and us bears mentioning, though: they have a much longer tradition of having partisan press, without any pretense of objectivity. So the populace is used to partisan media spin, it's a tradition of like: centuries.

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/15/2019 - 5:07pm

The Guardian, of the elite... [not up to standards, slurs w/o a point, deleted - PP]

by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 12/16/2019 - 2:27pm

What kind of man is a father with children who is an apologist for the BBC?

by Anonymous (not verified) on Tue, 12/17/2019 - 12:01pm

What kind of man gets into a cliched over-the-top rant about a fairly conservative (in the behavioral sense) government media organization?

by PeraclesPlease on Tue, 12/17/2019 - 2:17pm

I thought PP was just a flaky Europhile but his unapologetic cover for the BBC is creeping me out.

by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 12:37pm

Wow, maybe you start to empathize with how we feel.

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 3:04pm

Then you might also be creeped out to see how the UK version of Never Trumper Republicans think:

FT speaks truth to new power:
Demonising the BBC serves no public good https://t.co/UCZOQMBFE8
— Lionel Barber (@lionelbarber) December 18, 2019

by artappraiser on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 4:25pm

and I might be creeped out by how many saps like you fall for faux populist crap that is meant to distract you so that the new internationally powerful "populists" can make sure all the spoils go to their oligarch buddies...

by artappraiser on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 4:32pm

Creepy crawly corruption and cowardice spreads to the art world. I need a long scalding shower just being this close to it.

by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 4:39pm

Rudy's buddy Parnas got$1 million from the Russians, Manafort got a $2.4m Ukrainian payday as Trump's resigned campaign manager, Jared and Javanka made off with $350million last year, while Jared got $1.2billion loaned from the UAE cats who held Qatar hostage (and laundered a dodgy Da Vinci painting "sold" for a half a billion), and Trump had to pay $2mill for abusing his charity similar to his abuse of his "University" and steaks and bankrupt casinos, but you're getting all not and bothered over a government media org, or just need an excuse to pleasure yourself in a steam bath thinking about your oligarch buddies and their world domination tour?

by PeraclesPlease on Wed, 12/18/2019 - 4:52pm

The supposed crisis here is that only 69% of Britons trust the BBC. Do you know what any news outlet in the US would give for a number that high? https://t.co/VLZHMzNcV2
— Josh Barro (@jbarro) December 29, 2019

by artappraiser on Sun, 12/29/2019 - 4:10am

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