BBC News used to be a respected, if small-c conservative, news organisation. Now it’s just an embarrassment. The rest of the BBC is worth saving, but the news division needs all the people at the top fired and not rehired, and everyone below whatever level is appropriate (I don’t know the inner workings) seriously considered for firing. Then the charter needs amending to clearly and unequivocally state that the news must remain independent of government or corporate meddling - probably need an oversight committee to ensure that, but how they are chosen is left as an exercise to the reader!
Tin foil not needed
Submitted 3 weeks ago by titty_wizard@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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ReCursing@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
djdarren@piefed.social 2 weeks ago
As a radio nerd from the UK, my love of the BBC is rock solid. The radio, TV, and technology wings of the corporation are right up the with the NHS as something we should be rightly proud of.
But I get a few moments of genuine anxiety when I’m listening to 6Music while cooking dinner, and they go to the news. What will this bulletin’s headline be? Reform’s plans for if they ever get to form a government, or how many poor people landed on our shores in a small boat today? I get genuinely angry, to the point that I’m more like to roll the broadcast back by a few minutes so I can skip the news entirely. God bless BBC Sounds.
ReCursing@feddit.uk 2 weeks ago
Same. Exactly the same including radio station of choice (though I also like Radio 1 Dance at times)
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I stopped watching BBC years ago and now when I come across it it feels like I’m watching the news in V for Vendetta
AfterlifeAdventures@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
bigchungus@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
claims to be pro life fucking dies What an idiot
Mrkawfee@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
At least those fascists had cool helmets
TheBrideWoreCrimson@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
At least in Germany, MSM have definitely been moving in direction of the far right after the last federal elections a year ago when the fascists became the strongest party.
Very recently, when the socialists won Berlin - Germany’s capital and largest city - they were immediately smeared as “anti-semitic” (of course) and “having connections to criminal gangs” by some parts of the MSM which I thought had resisted this trend. I quit their shit on the spot.SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And shit like Ancient Aliens is just straight up psyops
Funkt4st1c@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Brown people can move rocks, you guys! Aliens didnt put things up your dads butt, he just got a little adventurous and is closeted.
BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
There’s a MAGA running for Congress in my area, and his ad starts with him brining groceries on from the car, saying “Democrats in Congress don’t understand how the high cost of living is affecting Americans…”
MAGA, WHAT? This fucking pedophile traitor is actually trying to make it sound like it’s the Dems that are causing all the problems, even though MAGA fully controls every branch of government, and all our economic problems can be DIRECTLY traced to the war, tariffs, and other MAGA economic policies. They just fuck everything up, blame the Dems, and spend a fortune shoving it down our throats until people believe it.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I have not watched TV in years. Is there anything specific you are talking about?
yucandu@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That Landman show, the one where Billy Bob Thorton literally tilts at windmills, and goes off on this whole speech filled with falsehoods, had oil companies in the credits.
workerONE@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Bernie Sanders is doing to take control of all the toothbrush factories. You will be assigned a toothbrush bristle hardness designated by your socialist dentist. You will no longer have the freedom to choose your toothbrush. If you drive a lifted truck you will be assigned to work in a gay cake factory that only bakes cakes for gay weddings.
CrimeIsLegalNow@ani.social 2 weeks ago
See you started out silly but I think you ended with a good idea
Cosmonaut_Collin@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It sounds like you just want to bake gay cakes at a gay cake bakery, which you should do if you want to.
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
As long as it comes with decent health insurance and dental I don’t give a shit anymore. I’ll make those cakes so fucking gay I don’t even care.
Malica@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
It’s the constant drug ads for me
Axolotl_cpp@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
It’s not even good propaganda anymore…
TootTootComingThru@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Right? At least back in the day we got like cool video games like America’s Army and 24 hour Walmarts and the dollar menu to convince us capitalism and the military was cool as fuck. What do even have now? Shitty AI generated sounding country music and lame ass square dancing? Cmon man.
Hiro8811@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
My guess is that back in the day TV was one of the main source of entertainment, so you had a lot of eyes on it, nowadays only dead brain people watch it so they can go all out between propaganda and drama, also it’s probably easier for some stuff to get lost as it’s mostly bullshit and almost no one gonna save it.
DoubleDongle@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
It was never subtle, you were just naive
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 weeks ago
Or just mis/underinformed. You can’t know what you haven’t learned yet and not all people have easy access to reliable sources of information.
That’s how it got so bad before the majority of the population noticed it. And also how it continues to be allowed to persist.
orioler25@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
When was it?
BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That narrows it down.
darthelmet@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I always find it really funny when they don’t even bother with arguments anymore. They just present left policies as is, but say it in a way that shows they think that it’s obvious why these are bad. Like they shouldn’t even have to explain themselves.
yakko@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Born too late for the propaganda to be “here’s a thriving family wage for finishing high school”