Heresies Ep. 5: BBC Bias Exposed - An Insider's Story
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2021
- From the shocking cover up of Jimmy Savile, to the mistreatment of Lord McAlpine & Sir Cliff Richard and the scandal of Martin Bashir's interview with Diana, Princess of Wales, the BBC's reputation for honesty and integrity has never been lower. With so much of the public feeling alienated by the BBC's output, can it still be regarded as the nation's broadcaster?
The New Culture Forum proudly presents #NCFHeresies, Episode 5: "BBC Bias Exposed - An Insider's Story", presented by writer and former BBC journalist Robin Aitken, author of "Can We Trust the BBC?" and "The Noble Liar: How & Why the BBC Distorts the News to Promote a Liberal Agenda"
Featuring interviews with figures such as Lord (Charles) Moore, Rod Liddle, Lord Pearson of Rannoch, Bishop Michael Nazir Ali & Andrea Jenkyns MP, "BBC Bias Exposed" reveals why the BBC is in the grip of an ideology that prevents it reporting fairly on the world.
Robin Aitken shows how the BBC's internationalist, secularist & multiculturalist world view prevents it from providing fair and balanced news. Never was this more apparent than in it coverage of:
* the EU & Brexit
* Donald Trump
* Black Lives Matter
* the persecution of Christians (a subject rarely reported compared with BBC reporting on the plight of other persecuted religious minorities).
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The BBC was once where the world turned for the truth but now it is nothing more than a national embarrassment.
Who told you "World turned" around the BBC? As they think world revolves around themselves perhaps they told you that. And you believed!
@@truecinnamon
Like so many YT commenters you are plain ignorant.
From WW2 the BBC was a byword for honest reporting. All around the world the BBC's many foreign language stations were regarded as as near to 'the truth' as you could get. This reputation was built on the work of brave and honest BBC reporters and was very much seen as the counterpoint to Communist propaganda from the 50s to the 70s. Unfortunately recent generations of BBC reporters have squandered that reputation and now, quite frankly, it's a sad joke because it's potential to do good as an honest voice has been compromised.
@@mesolithicman164 Agree. I am in Australia and our ABC used to run lots of BBC stuff and it was top quality. I started noticing the bias with their demonisation of MRA's and UKIP as some sort of extremists, and its gone down hill rapidly from there.
@@mesolithicman164 Like the BBC reporting during the falklands war that gave away our navy and troop movements on a number of occasions that could have lead to the mass slaughter of our people if only the argentinians had realised the level of treachery of the BBC and hadnt dismissed it as dis-information.
@@Aspartame69 he said 50s to 70s. The Falklands was 80s.
I don't buy this stuff about the BBC bias being 'unconscious' or that they don't consider it to be 'political'. Every one of these nasty chancers is political to their finger tips and they know exactly what they are doing.
The BBC's output has undermined democracy in GB since at least the mid-late 1980s. The BBC has leveraged all sorts of agendas that are left leaning. The BBC has given patronage (whether through employment, subject focus, and even the planting of 'leftist' extremists in audiences such as Question Time) to 'leftist' individuals and organisations - doing it all openly, rubbing the public's nose in it, and all the while been utterly incapable of any introspection, objectivity and self-criticism. Has an organisation ever been more deaf-eared?
In short, it despises British history, British attitudes and British values. It is riddled with COMMON PURPOSE NuLabour apparatchiks from top to bottom within its management - all of whom can most kindly be described as Champagne Socialists enjoying their largesse courtesy of the licence payer, and less kindly as 'Hard Left' activists and propagandists. Arrogant in the extreme, the BBC entertains no criticism of itself, and has utter contempt for the indigenous population who have on their part been open and welcoming and accepting of others, their ideas and their cultures. For the past 35 years it has functioned as the UK's version of the the former CCCP's Pravda. And it is funded by a poll tax borne most unfairly by the poor. Weren't 'the Left' meant to be hard against poll taxes? Hypocrites too, then.
BBC is a virtue signalling club and if you don’t agree with the BBC mafia you’ll be blackballed at the office coffee machine.
I have some experience with the BBC as a sub contractor from back in the 90's (audio engineer) and you're right - they know exactly what they are doing politically. I could see they were on a high for months after Blairs 1997 win.
One job I was on there was seven of us to interview one farmer. That included 2 top of the range people carriers, an overnight stay in a five star hotel and all meals and drinks regardless of cost paid for. The dinner and drinks bill that evening was £450. I'm a council estate lad and in among that company I could sense the snobbery. It was the first time I realized the class system in the UK had not gone away despite what the BBC themselves had been telling me all those years growing up.
I agree … GB news allows people to answer questions unlike the BBC … who constantly interrupt people if they don’t agree with their narrative.
Yes but he is right about the self righteous attitude of "my political rivals aren't simply wrong they're evil"
The fury in Fiona Bruce's face when Charles raise the point of brexit bias on the show is very telling of her
Today on the BBC web site a headline news article is titled “Getting more black women into cycling”. Yet another synthetic deep woke story. If only they paid as much attention to the white working class poor, and the elderly, significantly larger groups that suffer many problems. But they of course are two groups that good ol’ Auntie Beeb despises.
@Sprocket List 🇬🇧 Oh they utterly, utterly despise them and have nothing but contempt.
Proof? Observe the comedy caricatures...
The BBC are convinced that they are right on every issue and anyone else is just stupid. The arrogance of these people.
The left as a whole think they have the moral high ground and are right about everything I find. They think if they just keep on trying to drum it into our stupid heads, eventually we'll see the light and agree with them. They are indeed arrogant.
Yeah, especially Gary Lineker and that oyster loving Naga Munshushy woman off Breakfast.
And the right side of every issue is to side against the people of this country in full knowledge that their 2,000,000-30,000,000 home will insulate them from any fallout for the next couple of generations at least.
What are you talking about? Their not convinced about anything, the consciously decive the population
@@gregoriosamsa2722 Yes, they justify the deceit specifically BECAUSE they are convinced of their own rightness.
The BBC doesn't reflect Britain whatsoever, it might aswell just be broadcast in London alone,because outside of London it's totally foreign
World Service... waffles on about London all the time... rotters
It's bs in London too mate. It does little to reflect anything. Billion pound stealth tax for propaganda. On a par with Russia today. More irony there.
@@mrrolandlawrence BBC... RT... All got to be taken with a pinch of salt... But don't throw the baby out with the bathwater. Abby Martin and Chris Hedges are on RT..(.both not welcome on CNN or Fox or in the NYT / WP for speaking unpalatable truths about America )
A great documentary which is about a million times more insightful than any of the crap which comes out of the BBC these days.
I have written to the BBC a few times to complain about bias. The reply each time has been words to the effect, 'all our programmes follow our strict guidelines and policies' and basically implying that I must be the problem not them. They cannot comprehend that their guidelines and policies could be wrong.
Same here.
Me too.
"We follow strict guidelines and policies" aka "our bias is baked in, we made it this way on purpose, please shut up"
I got them referring to the production company, saying they are independent of the BBC and they have no control over them.
The TV license should be scrapped. No one should have to pay for a service it doesn’t use.
You don’t have to pay it you only need one if you watch live broadcasts
@@Petal4822 You only need a TV license if you watch live broadcasts (any channel) or BBC iPlayer. Netflix and Amazon Prime are not live broadcasts so you don't need a license if that's all you watch.
I agree
@@dirkvanschalkwyk1919 you may be write but it can’t be in forced all the letters go in the bin and if you get a visit from a goon all you do is say get lost and shut the door that’s the end of it simple
nobody has to pay....I have not paid for 20 years you just fill in a form saying you do not watch BBC at all and use your TV if you own one for non terrestrial TV/DVDs/Gaming and you fill the form in once a year. I have never had a visit or any threatening letters....
I worked at the BBC and an abiding memory was the profound bone idleness of most of its employees. They do the bare minimum possible and then get a whopping pension. Nice work if you can get it.
That’s what happens when you’re guaranteed to receive payment even if your product is shit.
@@neiljohnson5285 This is what happens when everyone gets a medal..
Ya and you one of them 🤣
And now they just employ "diverse" people, just because they're diverse.... Not Because they can actually do any work...
@@GrasshopperKelly That is correct
My mother worked for the BBC in the 1950's, she was so proud of that.But in her last 10 years her views of the BBC soured to an extraordinary extent, she hardly recognised it and was greatly disappointed by its output.
Proud to announce that I have not paid for a TV License since they covered up about Jimmy Saville. Several instances since then have shown how right I was to do so. R.I.P. BBC
This is brilliant, it needs to be shared across the country.
Not just across the country across the world but Google who owns RUclips is suppressing this clip in searches because it is part of Big Tech trying to cancel our culture and roots.
(Description) Saville story - supressed, Lord Macalpine/ Cliff Richard (the rich with really good lawyers ?), Diana (Not really Bashirs fault she was - 'murdered'?)
BBC - JFK assassination coverage; EVERY time - Lee Harvey Oswald did it ! NEVER another point of view or evidence. Maybe one day they will tell the true story of John Lennons assassination = 2 gunmen/security guard outside was CIA (Jose Perdomo).
Good luck with that 🤣the you tube algorithm won’t allow it
This could apply in the USA as well. CNN, NBC, ABC,CBS they are all extremely biased to the left. I have friends in Brazil that would say the same of Globo and other networks there. This is a worldwide problem.
The BBC sould be forced to show it
This Heresies series is brilliant. Utterly brilliant. Hats off to Peter Whittle and the NCF channel.
I concur.
Thanks very much!
RUclips:ROBERT SEPHER mit 'QUEEN OF ISLAM' ELIZABETH2/VERMISCHT MIT DEN ROTHSCHILDS/SCHWARZER ADEL.
40 years ago as a BBC film director in current affairs I was saddened by the typical approach of journalists I worked with - which was to create a story based on their biased ideas and then go out and film it - so we simply selected people who were going to say the right thing and kept the camera going till the journalist got what they wanted. Mostly they were successful because it’s easy to edit clips to say what you want and, if not, they were simply edited out. My desire as a film maker was to approach the story with an open mind and tell it how it was - I was naive and out of step even then!
not naive. you had journalistic integrity, which none of them have
Full marks for having integrity & standing apart!
I’m a avid listener to BBC Radio 4. What’s become hugely apparent to me is that Radio 4 has become a platform for the LGBTQ community to the point that it’s become quite impossible to listen for more than a couple of hours without some LGBTQ element being woven into the programming. While I’ve no issue at all with this I am amazed by the huge over-representation of what is a small minority of our population.
I tuned into R4 . each occasion was a topic about lesbians.
On a recent vox pop, young people really thought that the gay community were about 20% of the popuation.
If you think that’s bad you should see the push for this on children’s channels!
& anti semitism too.
This needs to be aired as a documentary on GB News.
Why not air it on the BBC? After all, the programme is about a once great public institution crucial to British culture.
If they refuse to show it they only demonstrate their bias.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 NEW LABOUR , NEW BBC, NEW NATIONAL TRUST, NEW ..........
They all are inclined to dispise England of yesteryear, and bend the knee to the latest American trends.
@@sirrathersplendid4825 completely agree....
GB news Should interview Mike Yeadon or Robert Malone.
That's a good idea; GB News needs more varied content. It's rather shapeless, repetitive and disappointing so far. But at least it's not the BBC and at least it has rid itself of that fool who sunk to his knees the other day.
Unfortunately, it’s not just the BBC. Channel 4 are no better along with the mainstream media.
All major outlets have been "got at".
CH 4 Is owned by the BBC an offshoot called BBC Studio. So why on earth are we paying a licence fee to a commercial station
The difference is that we are mandated to pay for the BBC.
Agree C4 and BBC are the same animal. I don't even watch mainstream TV anymore and haven't of license in years as I haven't owned a TV in 6 years
@@noelmccullough3853 the majority of BBC's funding is through commercialized channels. Like Dave, and BBC-America.
I've submitted many complaints to the BBC. Their answer can inevitably be summed up as "We know best, you're wrong".
What a brilliant video showing what the world really thinks of the BBC this video should be shared to everyone.
Exactly!
And sharing it!
Lord Reith must be turning in his grave at the shameless dismantling of his idea of impartiality...
'Lord Reith must be turning in his grave at the shameless dismantling of his idea of impartiality...' - I doubt it. He said the BBC would always support the Tory government in the General Strike. He didn't bother to ask whether the miners were right.
Lord Reith was not impartial and the BBC has never been impartial. Lord Reith used the BBC to break strikes especially the General Strike in 1926. The BBC has long had an antagonistic and vituperative attitude to working class people (by far the majority of the population) and especially to Labour unions. The BBC is patrician and establishment and dominated by high Tories and Whigs.
Most people seem to the think the BBC is Left Wing. This is patently absurd. The idea the BBC Trust and board of governors is influence by the Worker's Party or the SWP is laughable. 50% of all BBC appointments vetted by the security services for any potential staff who have "left wing" opinons. Eric Hobsbaum is a good example.
@@myroseaccount The BBC isn't Communist, but it is left-wing. The radical left are just impatient. They sometimes play a useful role for the left in presenting pressure from the left which allows other leftists to portray themselves as moderates advocating sensible and slow change. I can totally see why the radical left has problems with the BBC, but it seems to me like a case of utopians criticising realists.
You're absolutely right about the BBC never having been unbiased. It's impossible to be unbiased. You can attempt to live up to that principle, but this only tends to make you liable to be undermined by people with a more realistic view. Once you start genuinely believing your own bull about impartiality and making active efforts to give voice to actual political opponents in a fair way, you are easier to take advantage of and subvert.
An example of this might be that the BBC was forced into providing airtime to some pro-Brexit views despite them clearly being pro-EU. The FBPE-types are incensed that such a platform was granted at all.
Reith kept Churchill off the airwaves in the 1930s when he tried to warn the country about Germany.
LOL - although many of the points about bias on Brexit, Islam etc. are correct, the BBC has never been impartial - the idea that it was in the past is BS! In 1941 the BBC would not allow Cambridge mathematician Eric H. Neville to say in his biographical talk about maths genius Srinivas Ramanujan that SR showed that India could produce men equal to England's greatest as this contradicted British imperial ideology of White Supremacism. The BBC, as with the rest of the British media has kept silent on the actual history of British colonialism, not reporting the research published by Columbia U.P. in 2018 about how Britain looted $45 Trillion from India which funded much of Britain's industrial development [search 'Jason Hickel India' for his Al Jazeera article].
Apart from one mention in Simon Schama's 'History of Britain', the BBC also suppresses the fact that the British created Death Camps for the victims of the British-inflicted 1877 Madras Famine which killed 7 million. They gave inmates of these 'relief camps' less starvation rations than Nazis later gave in Buchenwald etc. for hard labour - killing 94% of inmates. As Mike Davis highlighted in his award-winning 'Late Victorian Holocausts', simultaneously record amounts of India's foodgrains were exported for British Food Security and profit. In 1901, The Lancet estimated from the Census that 19 million died of starvation in Western India during the 1890s due to such British 'Let the Poor Indians Starve' policies. The BBC 'Who Do You Think You Are' on Nitin Ganatra told us his ancestors left Gujarat to work as labourers on the brutal East African Railways due to famine in Gujarat - but no mention of WHY there was famine!
George Orwell wrote famously that 100 million Indians must be forced to starve so that the British can go about their lives as they do.
In Evan Thompson's BBC documentary about increasing trade with China - there was not one mention of the fact that from 1770-1907 Britain earned 1/7 of its export earnings forcing Opium onto China!
The comment that Churchill spent the 1930s simply campaigning against Hitler is a myth. WC actually spent most of the 30s campaigning against Indian Independence warning that the English working classes would starve - hinting at the British plunder of Indian foodgrains. As Madhushrie Mukerjee revealed in 'Churchill's Secret War', he was also responsible for War Crimes such as Collective Punishment of Bengal and the prevention of Food Aid from the USA, Canada and Australia reaching the victims of the 1942-3 Bengal Famine which he was largely responsible for creating. The BBC never mentioned this until recent campaigns in the news forced it to do so.
BBC has got to go.
I listen to Al jazera during the kneeler brigade at the start of a game and the booing is LOUD
The exact same time on bbc and its electronically muted
The BBC is censored media.
Yes, I watched on streaming and it is very loud until they turn off the microphones in some of the stands.
Of course it is. Aunty is actually Big Brother in drag
Same thing at football matches, they did their best to mute the singing of Tommy Robinson.
Aljajeera is the Muslim brother of bbc
As an ex Brit’ now living in Canada……I used to totally believe in the BBC, it was my first choice to get information on any thing. It pains me to say it but this is not so any more. I now tune into the German and French international news broadcasters.
I am sick and tired of paying the license fee for such an obviously woke and BIASED corporation.
Such a refreshing change to see such an honest examination of the BBC. Thank you.
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Most people just can't stand to watch it anymore. John Sopel's USA reporting is and was an utter disgrace to honesty and accurate reporting.
A couple of "beauties", according to the real US president.
Sopel is just another self regarding BBC globalist hack.
Yes,can just imagine him supping cocktails at CNN etc. parties as one of their little woke buddies
I watched live footage of a riot in Kenosha. A young man who was defending property was chased by a crazy man who reached for his gun. The young man defended himself. Then a mob started chasing him and he showed great discipline, only shooting when in real danger. I then watched the BBC's "Papers" show that morning. They had a man on who told a bunch of absolute lies and the presenter made no attempt to say this was a developing story and we didn't have the facts yet. He allowed the man to portray the young man as a racist and a murderer. I saw no corrections later.
Another small example: I saw a show by a BBC presenter about racism in America. The introduction had him driving in a car listening to talk radio. One of the voices said something that sounded "racist". But I recognised the voice as Dennis Prager and it didn't sound like something he would say. With some effort, I found the clip they used. They had completely taken him out of context: he was criticising the left and the BBC had just taken his description of what he says the left does and then presented it as if it was his own views. Disgusting behaviour. I suspect they got this clip from a leftist activist group that clips right-wingers to try and destroy them.
The BBC is an enemy.
@@Saddamuel --Plus anytime they interview someone for comment on any current issue in the US it's ALWAYS a Democrat spouting the same lies as usual and they(BBC)lap it up without ever attempting to verify what's being spoon fed to them,this is NOT an accident,they are an arm of the marxist movement,no mistake.
I'm 29 and i've witnessed an awful lot of "once in 100 year" events
I'm 70 and a former Australian Broadcasting Commission journalist..and since 2000 I've had the same experience.....our ABC suffers from exactly the same bias...as does the allegedly 'honest' US PBS......
A private corporation, funded by the public, by threats of punishment, endorsed by the government... Where could it go wrong?
The best way to force the BBC's hand is to stop funding them. I did, and my God it feels good.
Me too!
I fought with men like you in Yugoslavia, nerves, morals and courage in a firefight.
You're a hero.
Thing iis tom i dint watch any uk news sources because they are all under instruction not to report tge growing disaster of brexut and call it a pingdemic
I worked in journalism at the BBC, although I thankfully left several years ago. Its problem is it employs huge numbers coming out of universities with near identical left-of-centre world views. I could count the number of people I met who were politically conservative on the fingers of one hand. There is little or no diversity of opinion.
It means the BBC finds it hard, or is incapable of, reporting the world as it is - with its wildly differing viewpoints - but only how they collectively agree the world ought to be. It makes editorial decisions about the world and issues filtered through the heads of small groups of people who eagerly read The Guardian each day.
I worked at BBC World Service and even much of its output seemed to me absurdly shaped by middle-class, left leaning UK sensibilities. This bias and world view, so at odds with how much of the world actually thinks and behaves, was utterly pervasive among some of its staff at least and the problem appears to have got massively worse over the past five years or so with the advent of priggishly self-righteous and partisan identity politics.
Then part of the problem is that so many people go to university at all. Though with almost all teachers also having had to go through the university and teacher training sausage grinder, it seems pretty clear that the problem is in schools now too.
so you're saying the BBC needs less educated people, to fit more of a right bias, then?
@@waltflanniganzdog Nice Cathy Newman-style straw man. I'm stating the blindingly obvious that we need people with a variety of world views and perspectives in journalism rather than conforming to a left-wing, censorious and increasingly blinkered identity politics-obsessed mono-narrative.
I once believed there was no profession other than politics in which ideology played such a significant role in shaping identity. I was wrong. Partisan journalists also rely on ideology for their identity. But ideology is such an utterly vacuous basis on which to rest one’s credibility and reputation. Journalists are nothing special. They’re simply ordinary, opinionated people. Why we reify them as the new ‘gods’ worthy of shaping our socioculture defies reason! Turn off your electronic devices en masse, and these worms will slither back into the soil, where their castings will do the most good!
@@petertrebilco9430 Hi Peter. I totally agree. In defence of journalism as a profession, when I trained as an indentured apprentice on a weekly newspaper many years ago we were taught to keep our opinions out of reporting. I'm not pretending that much of journalism was not utterly partisan in years gone by, but at least this was the ideal. Now I have no sense in much of what passes for journalism that impartiality and evidence-based journalism is even remotely a goal to be aspired to.
This was a brilliant and superb piece of film making. I’d also highly recommend Robin Aitken’s book “The Noble Liar”.
In Australia we have the exact same issues with the “ABC”, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, which is funded through government taxes.
The BBC have always considered themselves the ‘anointed’. Time they were deconsecrated.
…. and sued
Its not just the BBC either, its almost all of western media in UK, US, Australia, Canada. The media is all about pushing lefty propaganda.
@@tubester4567 the exact opposite is true! If they were actually left, they'd be pushing for nationalised industries, trade unions, better worker's rights, a non profit housing and education system, higher taxes for the rich and invading right wing countries instead of left wing countries.
You actually think that by continuously promoting neoliberalism, the stock market, billionaires, money trickles down nonsense, censorship, mass surveillance, Russian scare stories and non stop war that they are left?
I always give the BBC as an example to my foreign friends and colleagues of why the UK is not a democracy. I have a gun at my head to pay for a political propaganda service which is opposed to my political and moral beliefs. It's outrageous and frightening.
Yes TC is right you should not pay. I haven’t for thirty years. The licence is for “live broadcast television” of any channel, so if you don’t watch that on tv or phone/laptop you don’t have to pay. Radio is ok, so is RUclips, and obviously clips on websites, Twitter etc that are not live broadcast. Its a bit odd initially, like coming off daily consumption of anything like coffee or bread!! But your knowledge expands, you have to go in search of information, I read a couple of dozen websites regularly, track down and read scientific and academic papers, and consume vastly more books than any of my peers. As well as saving over £4,000.
You're right. It's a Christian Monarchy.
@@quentinnewark2745I very, VERY rarely watch live TV, but I do sometimes
Not had a licence in over thirteen years
If you don't engage with TVL, you aren't getting prosecuted, end of
@@astroterf. Yes. All the people clogging the courts for non-payment (I understand it is the number one reason for jailing women) have confessed to non-payment to a TVL visitor. Those 'detector vans' are a myth. Personally I haven't watched for decades because its garbage. Pap and propaganda. The barrage eats away at your ability to think. Its no accident all the people I know most confused and anxious about mRNA injections, covid fatalities, masks, Israel, trans, weather, anything really, are avid tv watchers.
I’ve always loved the BBC. Happy to pay my fee and it felt like home. I’m so pleased to see that so many others are now thinking as I do. For the past ten years I’ve watched it warp out of anything unbiased. It’s become slowly and insidiously ideological and liberal left. Political elites simply knowing best and delivering programming filled with their own rhetoric, utterly imbed down and really not speaking to the population of either the UK or the globe. Now it’s a corporation that I no longer know or understand. I go to other outlets for news but in this age of censorship that is becoming more difficult by the day. I do hope this film remains on RUclips. Thank you for this reporting. I miss it.
At one time it was a privilege to work for the BBC and staff were paid ‘normal’ salaries. Not any more…..highly inflated salaries bring highly inflated sense of importance. I refuse to watch the BBC or live programmes…I do not have a licence and I am proud not to support this biased out dated organisation. Well done to this video producer, we need more of this honest reporting of the TRUTH!
In 2010 I was out with the BBC programme Inside Out. After we had finished, we stopped for a coffee in a pub and for some strange reason, the conversation turned to donkey jackets. I made the comment that I recalled that all the paddy road gangs in the 70s and 80s had worn these things and yet they had now vanished.
Innocuous? The camera man jumped as though I had stabbed him with a knitting needle and said that such terminology was disgraceful. What? Donkey jacket? No, referring to the Irish as paddies. They refer to themselves as paddies. I have a bottle of Paddy whisky. The diminutive of Patrick is Paddy. This guy virtually accused me of being racist, which is pretty rich given that I am of Irish stock.
What was interesting was the tone of the final programme. They took the piss out of me. This rankled because I was giving my time freely to the BBC by providing them with a specialist vehicle equipped for snow, allowing them to get to places they might not otherwise have achieved.
Once bitten, twice shy. Never again. If the BBC gets stuck in the snow in future, it can bloody well stay stuck.
The only time we get upset about Paddy... Is When Americans think we call ourselves "Patty"
As an Irish national with 3, count 'em, Uncle Paddies, I take no offence, we refer to British people as ''Brits'', no offence intended & none taken, I'm sure. I have dozens of relatives in Manchester, my English cousins, all ''Mancs'', all family. I resent the English middle-class tossers at the BBC having the gall to usurp my right to take offence, what a shower of pathetic chancers.
'Paddy Power' is one of the biggest betting organisations in Britian .Founded by David paddy powerThe Irish call themselves that.Idiot BBC right on nonsense.
J
As a child, l remember how my grandfather and my father - who fought at Ypres (WW1) and in the far east (WW2) respectively - were both very proud of the BBC.
Today, they would turn in their graves
I used to watch BBC2 to see documentaries of this quality. These days I no longer watch anything on the BBC, for exactly the reasons outlined in this excellent documentary.
The kind of excellent documentary the BBC used to produce.
Exactly!
I used to defend the BBC. One day, I watched a News item on Putin (and NO, I am not a supporter at all), but I noticed it had been edited. Had I not watched the whole thing on RUclips, I would have gone the wrong impression - the opposite impression. I began to wonder if I had imagined it and double checked. I couldn't BELIEVE the BBC could be so WRONG! I was shocked, really. Since that date, I have STOPPED paying the licence fee. I get my news elsewhere and balance what I am hearing for myself. SHAME on the BBC. Soon it will have to STOP the nonsense.
They weren't wrong they were pushing propanda through editing
I stopped paying for the BBC as soon as I realized the pro eu bias which was rampant from Question Time to HIGNFY. I have no intention of giving them a penny piece of my money and yes I watch tv most nights. The sooner they are gone the better, and I don't mean a different finance model, I mean gone.
I listened to an interview with someone on World Service,, by the time it had reached the Today program they had completely turned it into something different,,,,,, a lying report. If I hadn't heard the original interview I wouldn't have known.
The bbc people should be in jail for a few years.
The BBC definitely has an agenda for Putin and Russia, and though like you I don't support the Russian President, I once saw a well-known BBC journalist being systematically taken to pieces by Putin on RT News in which he (Putin) accurately described Russia's plight since 1991 and the history. No wonder RT has been blocked in Britain. The point is, Putin has NEVER been interviewed at any time, from the time he became President when the West was actually engaging him. My point here is that they are afraid of anything that might upset a narrative already decided in the editing room.
The New Culture Forum continues to deliver excellence. Great work all involved.
Either the creators of this film read my mind or I'm not the only one who feels the way I do.
Ahh, the Hitler Defense: “I’m getting attacked from both sides, so that proves I must be right”...
She hit the nail on the head, "they surround themselves with people like themselves" the very definition of an echo chamber
You could make exactly the same program about the Australian equivalent, the ABC. If anything, they are even worse.
And ALL of the news coverage in the US.
And reports that the American president has had discussions with Fox news on their coverage of the vaccine and the direction of that coverage changed in 2 days. See YT channel The Hill. Also, the administration has a direct link with Facebook to flag content and do...what, we don't know exactly. But they claim it's misinformation. The opposition says barely a word. Is our freedom about to die? It's starts with vaccine but will move to control over everything. Covid and vaccine is the trojan horse for permanent authoritarianism.
As well as the CBC in Canada. It was once a gold standard for journalism. It has become a propaganda machine for our PM Mr. Sparkle Socks. For shame.
Half their content used to come from the BBC, back when they were both decent to watch last century.
Add CBC to the list …
I heard on BBC4 radio yesterday that the Football Association has confirmed they’ll continue the taking-the-knee ritual before all matches in the upcoming season. Unreal.
Their typical reaction to criticism. Double down.
Let's stop watching football, then.
Comprised on the whole and controlled by uber-privileged, privately educated Oxbridge graduates with very little understanding of the real world.
An excellent, revealing, discussion. I recently cancelled my TV licence and urge others to do the same. For those worried about doing this there is plenty of advice on RUclips - just search for the many helpful videos of ChilliJonCarne . We must stop financing such an out of touch, politically biased, organization. We don't need the BBC and we should not be forced to subsidize it.
The BBC must be made to be fully accountable. Start by ending the licence tax!
What are you still paying it. Don't watch live TV or BBC iPlayer and you don't have to
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Here in Norway, our NRK (our government owned, tax-paid broadcasting company) said openly that they were going to be negative towards Trump. It's madness
Our national news (NOS - Dutch) is extremely biased, the Dutch version of the BBC, left leaning and antisemitic
The comment about arrogance really hits the nail on the head. These people boost their own political biases to make themselves feel morally superior, and it's like a feedback loop.
"The problem is that they don't see it as bias...they see it as decency"
The whole left in one concept.
Also the right.
@@JagoHazzard I haven't seen the right destroy statues or make anyone take the knee yet.
@@jackdelacey7392 The American `right` ex-president destroys and destroyed lifes, kneels for money, works with tyrants and calls them friends etc. etc etc
@@gerhardw.933 that's funny coz a lot of working class people said he brought a lot of jobs to the U.S.
@@jackdelacey7392 My comment was actually a ‘satire’ to the ‘left’ comment above and you fell for it.
To separate everything into (political) ‘left’ and ‘right’ is a disease not only in the USA. No one should be judged on his political agenda alone but on the actions he or she did, rather the moral ‘right’ and ‘wrong’ than the political ‘left or right.’
So, political ‘right’ entrepreneur Trump created his wealth and created job. But his company filed for bankruptcy at least 4 times (!) that he had n o t to pay his contractors who could not pay the workers and don’t have to follow his other responsibilities. Like milking the cow but not willing to feed it.
Of course, when you criticize the (political) ‘left’ you don’t see any good at all, blinded by your ‘right’ conviction.
- ‘Affordable Healthcare’ is neither ‘left’ socialism nor liberalism but a right for those in need and the responsibility for the government to give farmers and worker a social network.
-Minimum wage is neither socialism nor liberalism but a human right to live a dignified life in capitalist USA.
-Wearing a mask is neither ‘left’ socialism nor liberalism but a personal responsibility to fight the virus.
You fell for my ‘satire’ because you are blinded by your ‘convictions’. And I am sure you don’t understand the moral ‘rights’ of any government like my samples for affordable healthcare, dignified life, fight a common enemy like a ‘virus’. There are many more samples the ‘great’ America lacks behind but because of current trench warfare you waste time, money, resources and a lot of talent.
Brilliant! Thank you. I'm so angry with BBC that I cannot watch any of its output and only check in with it for any change by visiting it's news websites. Reading that you find the BBC is forever lost in Identity politics
Excellent summation - and should be on the BBC! Thank you.
A programme by adults for adults - thank you.
I turned off the BBC after one of my favourite radio 4 presenters James Naughtie attended one of the early Trump rallies in 2016.
He said that yes indeed there are thousands of people here but I can’t help but wonder if half of them have turned up just to stare at Trump’s hair.
Never listened again.
It’s actually astonishing that this hasn’t been taken off of RUclips as yet.... give it time!
Great work....glad to see common sense is still alive.....I never watch TV or read the paper anymore.
Excellent documentary. Just one small thing, at 46.31, it is not a legal requirement to have a TV licence if you own a TV. Only if you watch programs at the time of airing or use BBC I player. You can watch all other catch up and demand services without the licence. The real kick in the teeth is that to watch GBnews live you have to pay the BBC.
I remember that program when the EU results came in. Dimbleby was distraught. Worse, he was surprised. That showed, beyond a shadow of a doubt, how out of touch he was. Not only him but his panel. They are pathetic.
He was surprised that their propaganda campaign had failed.
He was in a complete rage.
I remember all the outside broadcasts with all the EU flags swaying gently in the breeze.
This comment is so true, both he and his panel could not believe, we the public had not don, what they had told us to do.
Of course they were shocked. Their attempts to manipulate, influence and fix the result had gone terribly wrong!!
Not paying TV licence IS a legitimate option for television owners; just don't watch LIVE TV or use iPlayer, on any device
Like football fans refusing to buy tickets to watch matches if players continue to take the knee
Fantastic piece of work here. Exposing the real truth is very rare these days.
Great programme. And a treat to hear Rod Liddle.
Well done for producing such a high quality documentary. Very impressive stuff.
I concur.
The bias runs so deep that they have become blind to it.
The BBC know what they're doing it's lefty marxist subversion. They were a big marketing tool for the lefty Marxist BLM organization
I haven’t watched the BBC for 5 years when I stopped paying their mandatory tax. It’s stomach turning hypocrisy.
Thank you for this and for making me aware of Michael Nazir Ali who is worth listening to. Sober and disturbing programme. It was the bias of the BBC which make the Brexit result and the election of Trump such a shock. This is bad journalism to say the least of it especially from a very well funded and staffed organisation which is supposed to serve the public. Charles Moore makes this point very well
A couple of years ago I was the BBC’s biggest fan but this last year I have come to despise it.
Better late than never :)
Last time I enjoyed the BBC was Blackadder goes forth.
Brilliant piece. Such a tragedy that the BBC, which had a proud history of both programming and technology has come to this. Like many other institutions it's run it's course and time to call it quits. TBH, there really isn't much to salvage from the mess it's become.
I cancelled my BBC TV licence several years ago.
Every month I get an aggressive, accusatory letter from the BBC as they demand that I buy a new licence.
This has been going on for over 3 years.
I hasten to add that I do know watch the BBC at all.
They hound people who don’t have a licence, I get a nasty letter every week demanding I respond to them. Why should I be compelled to explain myself? Netflix don’t hassle me when I cancelled them
Good exposé.
Its reassuring that there are intellectuals and professionals in journalism that are unbiased such as Robin Aitken.
Not personalities and presenters...professionals.
Sensational! This is the reason I cancelled my licence fee. The BBC have nothing to say to ordinary people like me
Now this IS journalism.
The BBCs lying about Israel has been so damaging. I believe it’s attitude has caused much of the antisemitism in Britain
This was an excellent report by Robin Aitken, the former BBC journalist. I have not had a television for seven years, since moving into my own rented flat. However, because I might occasionally want to watch some live TV or catch-up TV on my laptop, I am obliged to spend £150 or whatever the exact fee is on a television licence. This year the only BBC output that I have watched was the Ashes cricket highlights, a couple of the women's cricket matches, a Clint Eastwood film, and a documentary about the mysterious death of a Swedish woman in Scotland some years ago, an apparent suicide but with evidence pointing to a murder. I made the mistake of starting to watch the BBC's serialisation of "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens, a book I had studied at school, only to give up after two episodes because of the appalling liberties that had been taken with the original plot, as well as some of the casting. Here are some of the reasons why I so dislike the BBC now. 1. The way they covered up the appalling sexual abuse of minors committed by Jimmy Savile. 2. The way they turned a blind eye to what Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris and others were up to. 3. The constant, relentless bias in the news coverage where anyone with a more right of centre point of view is ignored, talked over or treated as if they were a neo-Nazi.4.The constant preaching about climate change and other environmental issues. 5. The way they managed to ruin Top Gear. 6. The marginalisation of classical music on the BBC channels, ditto jazz ( but there is at least some to be heard on BBC radio of course). 7. The BBC's failure to cover some important sporting events eg giving up on Test match cricket years ago. 8. The endless woke ideologies on show in various dramas and so-called comedy programmes. 9. The obsession with diversity, meaning they recruit heavily from certain groups regardless of the person's ability to do the job. 10. The fawning over the brilliant black British cellist when he deservedly won Young Musician Of The Year some years ago, the presenters kept talking about his race, when he simply wanted to talk about the music and how he had performed it, you could tell that he was actually embarrassed by their approach. 11. The arrogance of interviewers such as Emily Maitliss, who will often shout down politicians and not let them have their say. 12. The obvious bias of presenters such as Gary Lineker, who really ought to just stick to the football. 13. Question Time panels loaded with left of centre people. 14. Dumbed down content even on BBC2. 15. Anti-British views being expressed during the coverage of the King's Coronation earlier this year. 16. Very little in the way of pro-Christian content, we seem to be down to Songs of Praise and the Nine Lessons and Carols from King's College Cambridge, followed by Catholic Mass, broadcast on Christmas Eve, plus religious music on BBC Radio 3 eg Handel's Messiah. 17. The fact that I have to pay a licence fee for a TV station I no longer want to watch and that I have to pay this to legally watch ITV, Channel 4 and Channel 5 too, no wonder I no longer have a TV. 18. The truly appalling Question Time programme just a couple of days after 9/11 when the audience was packed with people hostile to America and the American ambassador to the UK was reduced to tears, unforgiveable in my view. 19. The fact that most BBC jobs are advertised in the leftist Guardian newspaper, Peter Sissons once told of how, when he worked at the BBC, he was advised to read the Guardian if he needed background information on any given news story. 20. The outrageously high salaries paid to some BBC presenters and journalists, can Gary Lineker for example really be worth over £1,000,000 per annum ? 21. The armies of staff sent to cover sporting events overseas at great expense, usually there are far too many pundits and an awful lot of time spent chatting rather than actually showing the action. 22. The dumbing down of BBC Radio 3 noted by many of its long term listeners. 23. The annoying way that many of the news broadcasters interrupt and talk over their guests, especially any politician who is more right of centre. 24. The complete lack of balance in most of the news reporting. 25. The arrogant assumption of the news broadcasters that they speak for the nation. 26. The lack of reporting on key issues such as persecution of Christians around the world, mainly (but not always) Muslim men grooming and sexually abusing white working class girls and some Sikh girls in many UK cities and towns, various white paedophiles in high places, the plight of the alienated white working classes and especially the men, sex education policies in UK schools. 27. The tedious over dramatic music which accompanies the news broadcasts, satirised brilliantly by comedian Bill Bailey some years ago. 28. The BBCs involvement in the de-banking of Nigel Farage. I could go on all night, but I won't because I know I am preaching to the converted here. Will the thought police come for me ? Probably yes, because free speech is being eroded in this country now. Any politician who pledges to scrap the licence fee at the next election, and can keep that promise, gets my vote. But will anyone make that pledge and would the metropolitan elites who control everything allow it to happen ? Probably not. The BBC must reform, it must become fair and impartial once more, or it will die.
28 good points, well made! 🙂
Leading up to the Brexit vote its not just air time given to Pro Brexit supporters but also the incessant anti Brexit comedy and the intonation used when referring to Brixit supporters. The Pro EU lobby has never accepted the result and most criticism of government or policy is still based on Brexit haters. I can confidently predict this will not stop for at least one or two generations.
Don't forget how us working class have been treated in the last 15 years
It’s not the BBC’s fault that Brexiteers aren’t funny
I stopped watching it halfway through the Brexit debacle, it was so biased in favour of remain, i just couldnt stand it!
I switched it off and have never watched it or any other MSM since
It cost me a TV, I smashed it. Bought a new one but never have it on anymore. I stick to online content.
The shame with Brexit is that the politicians havent gotten the message. Over Half the whole country does not want migration.
I just hope this gets shown on the BBC.
Such an excellent piece of work, thank you NCF, and Robin Aitken.
During the 90s I was still listening to Radio 4 every day, although people like John Humphreys were already a step too far. But by 2000 only the World service and one or two excellent exceptions like the Moral Maze were still on my personal schedule. Now I won’t even listen to TMS. Strange to relate, Humphreys now seems almost broadminded compared to the Maitlis brigade, and the Woke Service is a goner.
The American Andrew Breitbart remarked that politics is downstream from culture. I think the BBC is happy with the idea of dictating to governments and politicians , and know that they are political, pace Rod Liddle. They just know not to admit it.
Brilliant......this needs to go far and wide
I agree 👍
Yeah! First to comment. Anyway, welcome and excellent though this film is, we don't need to be told that the BBC is totally biased and wickedly unethical. I threw out the TV over 20 years ago and, outside of football commentaries, I no longer listen to BBC radio.
Many sadly still think it's totally unbiased and a paragon of truth.
But I believe ANYTHING that comes out of the talking box with pictures
@@peetsnort The BBC was so unbelievably bias. It became very apparent. Especially when listening to other networks.
@@Petal4822 yes. I remember feeling like a pariah for voting brexit or liking trump
The BBC is like a tail trying to wag the dog.
Totally agree Fraser, but part of any fightback is for The Right to still do the hard yards of creating new cultural product and this is contributing to that emerging ecology. Ultimately, the Right has to get off its arse to do this and start populating webspace with more such things, even if they are pointing out the obvious and create a normalisation of the view. Flesh on the bones of our opinions and a lot more memetic attack.
Why was no one at the BBC prosecuted for covering up Saville's crimes ? I fundamentally object to being forced to pay for this crap.
I would also add that the BBC was a very substantial driver in having Johnson removed as PM. They disliked the man for having delivered Brexit and decided he would pay for that crime They then set out to continuously muck rake every single thing they could, then constantly presented molehills as mountains until he was gone. And now we have Truss..
And now we don’t….
What a shame. The BBC was once a national treasure. I've voted Labour in every general election since 1997 and I'm still disturbed by left wing bias at the Beeb. TV licencing has become demanded money with menaces. They now promote ideologies that the British public are just not interested in. How was this allowed to happen? On a similar vein, what's happened to Labour? They seem to be more interested in middle class ideas of identity and inclusion than the real issues facing the working class.
Another great documentary from the New Culture Forum, this should be seen far and wide.
Magnificent and overdue analysis.
Thank you for your investment in journalistic integrity.
Replace the first ‘B’ in BBC with an ‘A’ and you have the same issues in Australia!
Oh my god!! I literally laughed so hard when Andrea Jenkyns said "I believe every penny of taxpayers money should be a penny well spent"
Hilarious!!
I heard that the BBC recruits a lot of its staff from the Guardian. If that's true, that would explain a lot.
I heard the CIA find it a source of staff also.
The Guardian obligingly published the Steel dossier and Luke Hardings latest evidence-free Russiagate revelations..cum....creative writing piece.
The BBC only ever used to advertise jobs in the Grauniad.
@@originalkk882 - Now they only advertise jobs to none white people
The Guardian is the number one newspaper for BBC employees, it's also the 20th best-selling national newspaper in the UK, out of 20 national newspapers in the UK. QED.
I no longer watch anything on the BBC, they make me feel ill, particularly Emily mate less, awful woman. All I can do is watch nothing and pay nothing, every time someone cancels their TV licence it's a nail in the coffin lid. Let's put the bbc in the ground.
Yes, the Maitliss is a frightening, grey, hunched apparition :)
The vile Andrew Marr is another foul spectre.
Brilliant! Thank you for an open view on BBC. Defund the BBC! 😁✌️
Fiona goes into bat for the BBC but on bad facts. The Government in April 2019 did support leave but that was 3 years after the referendum and at that time Theresa May (who had supported remain) was PM. The relevant fact is that the Government in 2016 then led by David Cameron supported remain and used taxpayers money to pay for a pamphlet in support of that position.
Absolutely brilliant - articulating so well what so many of us have known for so long. Many thanks to all those involved in this devastating exposé.
I meant to add that I hope that somehow (?) this gets out to a wide audience - it certainly deserves to.
All of these New Culture Forum programs are good, but this episode of Heresies is outstanding. This is a master class on how to present an idea/problem and dissect it from all angles - really a model for how these issues should be addressed.
The BBC could learn how to make documentaries by watching this!
Once you stop watching the BBC over a period of time and occasionally dip back in you realise how far apart you have grown. You come to realise they operate in a parallel universe which has nothing to do with yours.
I now listen to TalkRadio not because it's particularly good or educational but at least the channel speaks my language.
Exactly the same for me. I watch every couple of months or so just to remind myself how awful the BBC "news" is.
A actual documentary for a a change, Haven't seen one of those for a while on the BBC.
This is quallity stuff, better than anything on the tv.
Or BBC lol
Excellently crafted polemic from Robin Aitken, will fall on deaf ears at the BBC but is deeply resonate throughout the country.
Great Doc! Watching this I kept replacing BBC with the CBC in Canada. I would bet my money on that it would be the EXACT Same Doc! Everything but the license fee, our progressive government just pays them with citizens money.
Just glad that we're not alone in good auld Eire. It appears that media in general, are homogenous in their viewpoints, devoid of independent thought and basically, act as scribes for our politicians and corporations. Investigative journalism, save a very select few, is very much a dying art here.
Great doc though, more of this please!😁