Does Rod Liddle so want to reincarnate the BBC of the past that he is looking through Rose tinted glasses? Think that he has so convinced himself he sees glimmers of hope today. Sorry Rod this time you are so-o-o-o-o off the mark. It has had its 9 lives!!!
@@turbolevo8703 And Toby Young is far too boastful about his conspicuous consumption (only the most expensive chocolate truffles, consumed in vast quantities); I can't understand how his wife puts up with him - or how Lionel Shriver's husband puts up with her conspicuous meanness (refusing to turn on the heating, even on the coldest days). Dot Wordsworth and Dear Mary (skilfully avoiding Pseuds Corner) are, however, little gems.
After watching the queues for the Queen's 'Laying In State' by the British people, I was amazed to see the difference in people represented by the BBC in their Soap Operas and other programmes To be fair ITV Adverts are the same.
@@icdgyixifyinstereo Yeah, you know, the average British Xmas dinner these corporations like to show now, with three mixed race couples and some muslims and sikhs invited round just to complete the totally average picture.
Exactly so, but 'processing' is putting it a bit strong - feelings are the very lowest order of processing. Newsrooms are full of birds & foreign birds, by design.
Box-ticking. Some woman we've never heard of who played hockey, an unfunny cretin who made fat Manc Jason Manford seem tolerable, and a wooden "diversity" who is there "coz he is black" (after Ali G).
@@thadtuiol1717 - drooled. *I've seen their faces on the street & in their 'dreams' - it's all obsessive stalker satiated, those maniacal gurns, the physical quiver, the drool down the chin, & those oh-so wide eyes. I remember being set-up thru' the mouth of a schizo with "Chelsea smile" & seeing the impersonator-person in the t-shirt as I walked home - how an organised gang-stalker vis the EEG clone can nervously box around their mark on a 2ft wide pavement, is a marvel.
I gave up on Newsnight & BBC after seeing Kirsty Wark climax on the programme after one of the later feeble attacks on Trump, with her flashing eyes and excitedly breathing "we've got him this time".
I have to admit that the few times I watch her I can find it difficult understand her questions because of her accent/delivery. Anytime I see Mark Urban on I watch the programme. Otherwise I switch channels. I watched the programme for years until ten years ago. I listened to Today every morning from 1981 to about 2000 but gave up then due to its increasingly boring bias.
BUMBLING DAD/PRESIDENT Back in the 80s I started to notice a pattern in television commercials where the husband/dad was being caricatured as the bumbling fool out in the backyard blowing up the BBQ while mom and the kids watched with arms folded, rolling their eyes. Now the husband/dad is nowhere to be seen; he's been cutout of the picture. The solo superwoman is now handling everything. In short, for decades, intentionally, popular culture has been relentlessly emasculating half the population of the planet. The results are obviously pretty bad and getting worse. Now we have Homer Simpson as president.
You forgot to add all the black men they have as partners/husbands/boyfrieds watch the adverts in the uk now you would think everyone is in a mixed relationship, EVERYONES talking about but they think they are being clever and nobodys noticed, Everyone has seen it and talking about it Pathetic
As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in the 1960's,"If those they employ do not obey the BBC sheepdog's bark will get excluded from the flock". The most recent being Roger Boulton.
Rod Liddle can be a bit of hit or miss on topics but in this case he is right on the money. The BBC has become a creature of some wonder as it sheds audience satisfaction, faces competition from streaming services and demands for an end to the Licence Fee and yet seems to arrogantly ignore all danger signals as it approaches its demise. A Greek Tradegy in Gt Portland St perhaps !
@@Christian___ it’s not tax. You don’t choose if you pay tax or not. You could use your wasted TV hours doing something worthwhile. The BBC is a worldwide brand that capitalists want to get their grubby fingers into. Same as the nhs. I watched an itv drama the other night and it was crap. Adverts ruined it and the quality wasn’t up to bbc or sky standards at all.
@@Theactivepsychos I agree with you that ITV is also garbage; I don't watch TV, I don't know any millenials that do. It recieves £98 million in government grant money. It doesn't pay any tax--while it's complaining about how Amazon pays almost no corporation tax, they usually pay 0.4% corporation tax. While unspent Netflix subscriptions count as profit for Netflix that it has to pay tax on, the same is not true for unspent Licence Fee money for the BBC, which it usually hands out in bonuses or African hardwood desks to it's management. No capitalist wants the BBC; without government forcing people to buy license fees for TVs they use to watch RUclips and Netflix, they'd have no sales.
@@Christian___ you’re clueless then I’m afraid. Look up the commercial arm of the BBC and you’ll see why whenever someone gets popular enough and their wages can’t match the private sector they move. Look at top gear. Those three realised they could get the money because they became the show. Look at Jonathon Ross. Another example of a man on bbc realising he was the wealth creator for the corporation. The BBC is a gold mine.
I always used to rate the BBC pretty bloody good, but it is quite nauseating to me now. As Rod says, a question of sport and HIGNFY have become increasingly difficult to watch, even for just a little. Cringe worthy kind of sums it up for me now.
I haven't watched Newsnight since Brexit, so I'll give it a try for old times sake. I suspect, though, the changes Rod mentions are just optical and auditory illusions.
Gb news has frightened them thank god, whatever you or others think of gb news people from both sides can debate their opinions without cringeworthy biased presenters cutting everyone off ⚠️
I doubt that. They just dismiss it and are waiting for its commercial demise. If that doesn't work Ofcom will be tasked with bringing it down one way or another.
18 -30s don't watch TV any more. I'm 60 and my 3 kids are in that group, all doing different things in different places and none of them watch TV, except shows like breaking bad or game of thrones. I only really watch the news now or the odd sporting event.
What the BBC, and almost every other institution, fails to grasp is that there is an endless supply of old people. Old people die off, and lo!, there are replacement old people, just like that. Where do they come from? From da kidz.
Newspapers destroyed themselves trying to ignore older readers and capture a youth audience. They forgot the parents bought the newspaper and young people would grab it next to have a read. Young people were unwilling to pay for the newspaper.
Just loving Rod more every time he pops up to speak his mind, wonderful breath of fresh air, curmudgeon persona at it’s bloody minded best, just love him 👏🙏😎🏴
GB news reflects my views on things more than the BBC..Sorry to hear about Sue Barker...why did they get rid of her, because they wanted to make it more diverse ?
It never ceases to amaze that the left drones on about how supportive of the right or anti-left the BBC is! The Novara/Canary communists may not like that the Beeb is not extreme enough but in no way is it right-wing!
John Humphries stated clearly when he left that he never met another person in the whole of the BBC that shared his political views and he was the lone "none lefty" in the corporation. Blair turned it LEFT big time.
Centrist. An unholy blob of centre left and centre right. A neo liberal blob who were internationalist pro e.u., pro u.n. pro Davos etc. Anyone straying out of this bracket is plotted against.
Some journalists still care about just that, journalism. Call it an art or a craft, people like Rod Liddell clearly just care about it for what it is ie not a blunt tool of propaganda to bludgeon people into submission with.
Spot on comment about unfunny “comedians” on the bbc…. The radio 4 comedy is now just utterly dire… or at least it was when I stopped listening about three years ago.
Bbc definitely has a tick box for people. I.e. if there was a comedian who was blind, non white, trans, missing a limb, in a coma. That comedian would have their own show 🤣🤣
Small correction: BBC comedy requirements do not include the term comedian, that part is optional. Far more important is tick box bingo. The weirder the better: trans and black, you’re in, transvestite (but privately educated and stinking rich parents), you’re in, Indian and female, you’re in, African, you’re in (even if you went to a very expensive private school and your parents are filthy rich).
I am of the political left and absolutely agree with Rod. Joe Lycett was just not funny. I actually thought that I was missing something because it was being lauded as really funny.. it was shockingly poor - in my opinion
I stopped watching the BBC and mainstream media around 18 months ago. Even if Newsnight is showing less bias/hatred to conservatives, I will never watch the MSM ever again, primarily because they are still massively biased, politically correct, agenda pushers.
Of the title: the newsrooms in Brit are stuffed full of the shittiest tiny people, with no sense of inquiry, no interest, no knowledge base, the consensus of very similar people (women, foreign women, foreigners, soy-boys), the same fashions & dress-sense. same face-pulling, whining, hand-arm-face-waving, intonating, stories, subjects, order of broadcast, repetition, same everything. Objectivity, inquiry, interest, knowledge - all absent. I'm looking to the least qualified people for information. THAT's why all the newsrooms are followers.
Is 'Newsnight' more neutral in its coverage? I wouldn't know,i stopped watching Question Time and Newsnight long ago and now no longer need a tv license.BBC continually profess to be impartial and unbiased.The BBC is the 'Guardian' in television guise.
Newsnight is simply Channel4 News on a later slot. The same guests are invited on and it wouldn't surprise me if the BBC editor watches Channel 4 at 7pm for that express purpose.
The @BBC hasn't changed in decades since I worked there, there is a very limited talent pool. The old boys club culture at the #BBC is one of what we believe, view and decide. Its a culture of personal elevation in celebrity and being loved, where without they struggle. Its a company that doesn't care or feel its answerable to it audience, so much so it's like presenting to our ignorant, childish and irasponsable viewers. To top all that, pander to the propaganda delivery rather than fact check. They are all overpaid, lazy, selfobcessed and woke. I remember many times sitting in the BBC canteen watching all those old has-beens unable to give up and cannot leave.
@@artemisjuno well I'm sorry to say I did, with John Birt as the Director General with his pathetic cost saving policy called producers choice. When they wasted so much money to external studios on useless projects which typically was to release some cash to supporting our buddies.
@@mrror8933 I can completely understand, most, obviously not all of those who work there, was by recommendation in my time it was very closed shop. They used an internal magazine Ariel where they advertised opertuinities internally only. And believe me even after all these years it hasn't changed much so I'm told by collugues maybe on the outside.
I threw out the TV 22 years ago because I refused to fund the BBC. Actually, I'm pleased to say that, one way or another, I never paid the license fee. The defining characteristic of every comedian that is given airtime is that they are not funny.
Apart from the bias the other failing not mentioned here is the BBC's penchant for paying fabulous salaries to all these left leaning staff and presenters despite all the loss of subscribers. Considering that viewer share is the prize in broadcasting it defies belief that they are retained. £1.4 million for a football presenter is total madness. I'm glad i defunded years ago.
'We're here to make them better people.' Exactly the attitude of the ABC in Oz. Don't give the viewers what they's want to hear or watch, just teach them what they should want to hear and watch. In the UK the people PAY to watch. At least in Oz they hide the sub fee in our taxes -nowhere near as blatant.
Could you not argue that the viewing figures have dropped for these programmes largely because audiences have shifted away from the main channels to the new social media platforms instead?
Question of Sport 5 million to 800,000. The BBC doesn't care,it has a license to collect free money. Your money, 3.8 billion of your money,and no obligation to make programmes you want to watch. Lazy,pinko,overpaid and entitled people who laugh at the public and think you can't do anything about it. And they want more to waste on higher wages for non talented people and that includes the production staff as well. Rod has just voiced what a lot of use already knew.
If I listen to anything it'll be Times Radio. Still woke but no lecturing. The phrase which makes my heart sink : "and now on BBC Radio 4, award winning comedienne..."
To those posting 'Who cares what Rod Liddle thinks?' I expect the answer is those people who subscribe to The Spectator RUclips channel or the magazine, or those who agree, more or less, with his views, or find him entertaining nonetheless. You may now rest easy, your concerns allayed.
It means uncritically supporting any immigration, and calling anyone in the UK who opposes legal or illegal immigration a racist, and anyone in the rest of the world who does likewise 'far right'. For left and right read liberal/progressive and conservative/traditional. The same applies for other social issues such as abortion, gay rights et cetera.
Newsnight last night was awful. That saccharine emotional counselling session, soused in empathetic worship, was just the worst I've ever seen on what used to be Newsnight. *Unquestioning, uninquiring, unchallenging. It's like with c4n, how & why they think they're audience wants a finale report on rappers every night.
@British Brexit Confusion - you should probably have a lot more views. Every single 'British' 'news' is females, family, females talking to females about females - preferably their feelings, & especially if they're all foreign. Not on the agenda is facts, breadth, depth, analysis, precision, actual commentators that people know, recognise, are engagingly knowledgeable. The thing that really irritates tho', at a personal level, is their face-pulling, face-waving, imploring & beseeching, & all the grasping or clawing hand-waving. & that little bounce on the balls of their feet that they do when they skip-off a 'thing'. - oh, & the 'clucking' arm movements.
@@mrror8933 - VD literally pulled-up the teas maid & gave him the forums ground, sympathising all the way & hanging-on to every unchallenged/questioned utterance as tho' it were intrinsically valuable, whilst generally omitting any detail. >Holy
Havent watched any Bbc show concerned with politics since the slow Brexit. At the time I was irritated by the partinsaship but now Im beyond that and its the sheer nonesense and myopia that I cant bear.
That does not mean he wasn't thinking it. Being fired isn't great for your life. There is also a chilling effect of being the lone voice against the rest. Rod said only one Newsnight staff member admitted voting for Brexit. My thought was how many more were too scared to tell even someone on-side such as Rod?
I think it more likely that the decline in _Newsnight_ viewership is down to the decline in the viewership of network TV as a whole (which I think is a good thing) overtaken by Internet, and for the young playstations and Facebook.
Inky improvement for the bbc is to get rid of the license fee and have a subscription service. Stop charging people for just having a telly, when the majority of the young and not so young will never watch this biased station.
That would turn the BBC into PBS, the US public broadcaster that almost no one there watches. There is no way a subscription service would be able to fund or justify the likes of BBC Radio 3 which is very dear to many influential people. So it isn't going to happen.
The difference is Mark Urban is a proper journalist, we used to have lots of those at the BBC, they are thin on the ground these days. Frank Gardner, Bridget Kendall, Lyse Doucet, John Simpson, although John, sadly, now lets his own views colour his output far too much. Many of the best male BBC journalists now work for Al Jazeera's English TV service. Forced out for being too old and too male. I used to be a regular viewer, but as Rod said Emily Maitlis and co drove me away. Will tune in again.
Is it me or has the BBC coverage been the only channel covering the views of none white individuals talking about the end of the monarchy and the colonialism they even go abroad at our expense to interview disenchanted lefties , instead of being a unifier on such an occasion it appears to want to be the catalyst of strife and dissatisfaction.
I stopped watching the BBC years ago and just switched to their radio content, then that became increasingly terrible and I gave up on that as well. They'll have a difficult job winning back the attention and trust of consumers like me, I'm afraid. I'm sure they're heart-broken.
I remember JEremy Hardy- derivative, not very funny and left wing. He was a feature on the BBC and his humour was like being locked in a diving bell with Rick from "The Young Ones".
Rod nailed it again. I’m glad journalists like him are still being heard.
Does Rod Liddle so want to reincarnate the BBC of the past that he is looking through Rose tinted glasses? Think that he has so convinced himself he sees glimmers of hope today. Sorry Rod this time you are so-o-o-o-o off the mark. It has had its 9 lives!!!
Journalist you mean?
Rod, Douglas Murray and Charles Moore, are the chief reasons why I keep taking the Spectator.
And Cindy Yu. Less so the barely coherent Forsyth and Katie balls. This pair are guardianistas.
@@turbolevo8703 And Toby Young is far too boastful about his conspicuous consumption (only the most expensive chocolate truffles, consumed in vast quantities); I can't understand how his wife puts up with him - or how Lionel Shriver's husband puts up with her conspicuous meanness (refusing to turn on the heating, even on the coldest days). Dot Wordsworth and Dear Mary (skilfully avoiding Pseuds Corner) are, however, little gems.
Charles Moore? Baffling
@@LudwigHammersnitzel One of the best informed and most judicious of all our political commentators.
@@saltburner2 agree about Toby Young. He seems utterly insufferable.
After watching the queues for the Queen's 'Laying In State' by the British people, I was amazed to see the difference in people represented by the BBC in their Soap Operas and other programmes
To be fair ITV Adverts are the same.
What? No mixed race couples?
@@icdgyixifyinstereo Yeah, you know, the average British Xmas dinner these corporations like to show now, with three mixed race couples and some muslims and sikhs invited round just to complete the totally average picture.
@@thadtuiol1717 and they now have a 'history month' for 3% of the UK population.
It's all about processing emotionally rather than rationally these days.
Exactly so, but 'processing' is putting it a bit strong - feelings are the very lowest order of processing. Newsrooms are full of birds & foreign birds, by design.
Box-ticking. Some woman we've never heard of who played hockey, an unfunny cretin who made fat Manc Jason Manford seem tolerable, and a wooden "diversity" who is there "coz he is black" (after Ali G).
@@gitfoad8032 There's a reason why 'may you be ruled by foreigners and women' was considered a curse in the Old Testament.
@@thadtuiol1717 - drooled. *I've seen their faces on the street & in their 'dreams' - it's all obsessive stalker satiated, those maniacal gurns, the physical quiver, the drool down the chin, & those oh-so wide eyes. I remember being set-up thru' the mouth of a schizo with "Chelsea smile" & seeing the impersonator-person in the t-shirt as I walked home - how an organised gang-stalker vis the EEG clone can nervously box around their mark on a 2ft wide pavement, is a marvel.
I gave up on Newsnight & BBC after seeing Kirsty Wark climax on the programme after one of the later feeble attacks on Trump, with her flashing eyes and excitedly breathing "we've got him this time".
I have to admit that the few times I watch her I can find it difficult understand her questions because of her accent/delivery. Anytime I see Mark Urban on I watch the programme. Otherwise I switch channels. I watched the programme for years until ten years ago. I listened to Today every morning from 1981 to about 2000 but gave up then due to its increasingly boring bias.
BUMBLING DAD/PRESIDENT
Back in the 80s I started to notice a pattern in television commercials where the husband/dad was being caricatured as the bumbling fool out in the backyard blowing up the BBQ while mom and the kids watched with arms folded, rolling their eyes.
Now the husband/dad is nowhere to be seen; he's been cutout of the picture. The solo superwoman is now handling everything.
In short, for decades, intentionally, popular culture has been relentlessly emasculating half the population of the planet.
The results are obviously pretty bad and getting worse.
Now we have Homer Simpson as president.
I noticed that too, the “idiot man” totally inept and a continual feature of advertising
Worse. We have Abe Simpson as president.
"Old man yells at cloud"
Yes, that's Biden all right.
And the solo superwoman is black, not Asian or white.
@@tommoncrieff1154 As in female, What difference does skin color make?
You forgot to add all the black men they have as partners/husbands/boyfrieds watch the adverts in the uk now you would think everyone is in a mixed relationship, EVERYONES talking about but they think they are being clever and nobodys noticed, Everyone has seen it and talking about it Pathetic
Rod, you are a national treasure keep up the insightful comments.
As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in the 1960's,"If those they employ do not obey the BBC sheepdog's bark will get excluded from the flock". The most recent being Roger Boulton.
Rod Liddle can be a bit of hit or miss on topics but in this case he is right on the money. The BBC has become a creature of some wonder as it sheds audience satisfaction, faces competition from streaming services and demands for an end to the Licence Fee and yet seems to arrogantly ignore all danger signals as it approaches its demise. A Greek Tradegy in Gt Portland St perhaps !
BBC is doing fine. All TV is slumping. BBC is slumping less.
@@Theactivepsychos Because of the TV licence and government subsidies. I don't mind the BBC being garbage, I just don't want it to get tax money.
@@Christian___ it’s not tax. You don’t choose if you pay tax or not. You could use your wasted TV hours doing something worthwhile. The BBC is a worldwide brand that capitalists want to get their grubby fingers into. Same as the nhs. I watched an itv drama the other night and it was crap. Adverts ruined it and the quality wasn’t up to bbc or sky standards at all.
@@Theactivepsychos I agree with you that ITV is also garbage; I don't watch TV, I don't know any millenials that do. It recieves £98 million in government grant money. It doesn't pay any tax--while it's complaining about how Amazon pays almost no corporation tax, they usually pay 0.4% corporation tax. While unspent Netflix subscriptions count as profit for Netflix that it has to pay tax on, the same is not true for unspent Licence Fee money for the BBC, which it usually hands out in bonuses or African hardwood desks to it's management. No capitalist wants the BBC; without government forcing people to buy license fees for TVs they use to watch RUclips and Netflix, they'd have no sales.
@@Christian___ you’re clueless then I’m afraid. Look up the commercial arm of the BBC and you’ll see why whenever someone gets popular enough and their wages can’t match the private sector they move. Look at top gear. Those three realised they could get the money because they became the show. Look at Jonathon Ross. Another example of a man on bbc realising he was the wealth creator for the corporation.
The BBC is a gold mine.
I ❤ Rod . Clever chap.
I always used to rate the BBC pretty bloody good, but it is quite nauseating to me now. As Rod says, a question of sport and HIGNFY have become increasingly difficult to watch, even for just a little. Cringe worthy kind of sums it up for me now.
Yes. I no longer pay for a tv licence.
Haven't paid for their PC propoganda tax for over 2 decades now. Fuck 'em.
I haven't watched Newsnight since Brexit, so I'll give it a try for old times sake. I suspect, though, the changes Rod mentions are just optical and auditory illusions.
Just Woke Up From The Nightmare From HELL !!!!!!! Stuck in a BBC Studio with Joe Lycett & Nish Kumar !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Im still SHAKING FFS !!!!!!!
Always love, listening to Rod Liddle. Intelligent, says, what I am thinking. Please more of Rod Liddle.
If he says whatyou are thinking then he must be intelligent eh ?
@@CreatingChaos definitely!!!!!!
"If it's possible by what stretch of the imagination to call Joe Lycett entertainment!" 🤣🤣
Gb news has frightened them thank god, whatever you or others think of gb news people from both sides can debate their opinions without cringeworthy biased presenters cutting everyone off ⚠️
I doubt that. They just dismiss it and are waiting for its commercial demise. If that doesn't work Ofcom will be tasked with bringing it down one way or another.
18 -30s don't watch TV any more. I'm 60 and my 3 kids are in that group, all doing different things in different places and none of them watch TV, except shows like breaking bad or game of thrones.
I only really watch the news now or the odd sporting event.
What the BBC, and almost every other institution, fails to grasp is that there is an endless supply of old people. Old people die off, and lo!, there are replacement old people, just like that. Where do they come from? From da kidz.
Newspapers destroyed themselves trying to ignore older readers and capture a youth audience.
They forgot the parents bought the newspaper and young people would grab it next to have a read.
Young people were unwilling to pay for the newspaper.
Just loving Rod more every time he pops up to speak his mind, wonderful breath of fresh air, curmudgeon persona at it’s bloody minded best, just love him 👏🙏😎🏴
GB news reflects my views on things more than the BBC..Sorry to hear about Sue Barker...why did they get rid of her, because they wanted to make it more diverse ?
It never ceases to amaze that the left drones on about how supportive of the right or anti-left the BBC is! The Novara/Canary communists may not like that the Beeb is not extreme enough but in no way is it right-wing!
In their view it is
Quite simply outstanding!
Rod - absolutely 100% nailed it. I love your analysis and comments. Spot on!
Spot on as always Rod
Like Radio 2 Breakfast show dropped a couple of million listeners when Zoe Ball took over
Why? I would guess that someone at the Guardian tells them to.
Spot on Rod.
I would never ever go back to watching BBC. It should be subject to pure market forces. I just loathe the lot of them.
John Humphries stated clearly when he left that he never met another person in the whole of the BBC that shared his political views and he was the lone "none lefty" in the corporation. Blair turned it LEFT big time.
Blair also helped to turn the conservative party (under Cameron) to the left .
Centrist. An unholy blob of centre left and centre right. A neo liberal blob who were internationalist pro e.u., pro u.n. pro Davos etc. Anyone straying out of this bracket is plotted against.
BBC is right wing top to bottom.
@@raycorrigan3297 Sorry mate but youve got your left and right mixed up.
Some journalists still care about just that, journalism.
Call it an art or a craft, people like Rod Liddell clearly just care about it for what it is ie not a blunt tool of propaganda to bludgeon people into submission with.
Quite possibly the best Spectator TV has ever put out.
Rod makes me believe there is a possible bright future and I'm not mad
Spot on as usual, thank you 💯👍🌟
Spot on comment about unfunny “comedians” on the bbc…. The radio 4 comedy is now just utterly dire… or at least it was when I stopped listening about three years ago.
Bbc definitely has a tick box for people. I.e. if there was a comedian who was blind, non white, trans, missing a limb, in a coma. That comedian would have their own show 🤣🤣
Not if they voted Tory
You have mistaken the BBC for Channel 4 !!
Small correction: BBC comedy requirements do not include the term comedian, that part is optional. Far more important is tick box bingo. The weirder the better: trans and black, you’re in, transvestite (but privately educated and stinking rich parents), you’re in, Indian and female, you’re in, African, you’re in (even if you went to a very expensive private school and your parents are filthy rich).
‘Perpetually triggered adolescents’ what a brilliant description
Top man is Rod
I got rid of my television ages ago. Everything has been infected by woke nonsense - especially on the BBC. Do yourself a favour and do the same!
I am of the political left and absolutely agree with Rod.
Joe Lycett was just not funny. I actually thought that I was missing something because it was being lauded as really funny.. it was shockingly poor - in my opinion
I agree, in every regard but one: Joe Lycett _is_ not funny, rather than _was_ not funny. 😉
Well you would agree with a dyed in the wool leftie like Rod!
I stopped watching the BBC and mainstream media around 18 months ago. Even if Newsnight is showing less bias/hatred to conservatives, I will never watch the MSM ever again, primarily because they are still massively biased, politically correct, agenda pushers.
Of the title: the newsrooms in Brit are stuffed full of the shittiest tiny people, with no sense of inquiry, no interest, no knowledge base, the consensus of very similar people (women, foreign women, foreigners, soy-boys), the same fashions & dress-sense. same face-pulling, whining, hand-arm-face-waving, intonating, stories, subjects, order of broadcast, repetition, same everything. Objectivity, inquiry, interest, knowledge - all absent. I'm looking to the least qualified people for information. THAT's why all the newsrooms are followers.
Is 'Newsnight' more neutral in its coverage? I wouldn't know,i stopped watching Question Time and Newsnight long ago and now no longer need a tv license.BBC continually profess to be impartial and unbiased.The BBC is the 'Guardian' in television guise.
Newsnight is simply Channel4 News on a later slot. The same guests are invited on and it wouldn't surprise me if the BBC editor watches Channel 4 at 7pm for that express purpose.
Used to watch news night and question time 51 years old conservative stopped about 8 or 9 years ago it had become unwatchable
The @BBC hasn't changed in decades since I worked there, there is a very limited talent pool. The old boys club culture at the #BBC is one of what we believe, view and decide. Its a culture of personal elevation in celebrity and being loved, where without they struggle. Its a company that doesn't care or feel its answerable to it audience, so much so it's like presenting to our ignorant, childish and irasponsable viewers. To top all that, pander to the propaganda delivery rather than fact check. They are all overpaid, lazy, selfobcessed and woke. I remember many times sitting in the BBC canteen watching all those old has-beens unable to give up and cannot leave.
Hard to believe you worked at the BBC.
@@artemisjuno well I'm sorry to say I did, with John Birt as the Director General with his pathetic cost saving policy called producers choice. When they wasted so much money to external studios on useless projects which typically was to release some cash to supporting our buddies.
I applied for a policy job at the BBC several years ago and was turned down. Will never forget the response I got back. It was almost insulting.
@@mrror8933 I can completely understand, most, obviously not all of those who work there, was by recommendation in my time it was very closed shop. They used an internal magazine Ariel where they advertised opertuinities internally only. And believe me even after all these years it hasn't changed much so I'm told by collugues maybe on the outside.
@@schoolofhardknocks4501 Your spelling is so poor that it beggars belief...
I am still following the news and discussions about the *United Britain of Great Kingdom* ; awesome program
Rod is saying what we all think
Totally agree. I used to love Newsnight. Haven't watched in years.
I threw out the TV 22 years ago because I refused to fund the BBC. Actually, I'm pleased to say that, one way or another, I never paid the license fee. The defining characteristic of every comedian that is given airtime is that they are not funny.
I really hate the BBC.
I cancelled my licence several years ago.
@@saltburner2 Me too
It lost it way a long time ago. I have some affection for their old material - but their current output is terrible.
#metoo
BBC ??? I watched it once .... cancelled my licence .....
Apart from the bias the other failing not mentioned here is the BBC's penchant for paying fabulous salaries to all these left leaning staff and presenters despite all the loss of subscribers. Considering that viewer share is the prize in broadcasting it defies belief that they are retained. £1.4 million for a football presenter is total madness. I'm glad i defunded years ago.
Rod seems to have improved his webcam. Slightly.
No self respecting person uses Twitter.
'We're here to make them better people.' Exactly the attitude of the ABC in Oz. Don't give the viewers what they's want to hear or watch, just teach them what they should want to hear and watch. In the UK the people PAY to watch. At least in Oz they hide the sub fee in our taxes -nowhere near as blatant.
Because it lives in a Twitter bubble.
Could you not argue that the viewing figures have dropped for these programmes largely because audiences have shifted away from the main channels to the new social media platforms instead?
Mr Liddle cannot really hide where he is coming from .
Question of Sport 5 million to 800,000. The BBC doesn't care,it has a license to collect free money. Your money, 3.8 billion of your money,and no obligation to make programmes you want to watch. Lazy,pinko,overpaid and entitled people who laugh at the public and think you can't do anything about it. And they want more to waste on higher wages for non talented people and that includes the production staff as well. Rod has just voiced what a lot of use already knew.
Rod is hilarious, could have easily been a stand up.
Why are the owners of The Spectator allowing the same collapse in the standards of journalism to happen on their own publication?
Hang on are you telling me I can watch Newsnight again?
Take a bow, Rod Liddle.
If I listen to anything it'll be Times Radio. Still woke but no lecturing.
The phrase which makes my heart sink : "and now on BBC Radio 4, award winning comedienne..."
Me too. Politics without the boring bits.
To those posting 'Who cares what Rod Liddle thinks?' I expect the answer is those people who subscribe to The Spectator RUclips channel or the magazine, or those who agree, more or less, with his views, or find him entertaining nonetheless. You may now rest easy, your concerns allayed.
The only blot on Peter Kay's record is bringing Paddy McGuiness out of obscurity.
Everyone should read Rod's column in the Speccie from 20 Aug'22 on vegetarians . Fabulous!
"Left wing on immigration" is meaningless. The political Left and Right must be fundamentally defined by economic positions.
BS.
Income dosent (shouldnt) define ones political views
@@CreatingChaos I'm not talking about one's financial situation, I'm talking about the economic models one supports.
It means uncritically supporting any immigration, and calling anyone in the UK who opposes legal or illegal immigration a racist, and anyone in the rest of the world who does likewise 'far right'. For left and right read liberal/progressive and conservative/traditional. The same applies for other social issues such as abortion, gay rights et cetera.
Amusing but I'm becoming a fan of Freddy Gray. I think he's really cute. I might start a fan club
Why? It would because many of the trolls would seem to be BBC employees!
Newsnight last night was awful. That saccharine emotional counselling session, soused in empathetic worship, was just the worst I've ever seen on what used to be Newsnight. *Unquestioning, uninquiring, unchallenging. It's like with c4n, how & why they think they're audience wants a finale report on rappers every night.
@British Brexit Confusion - you should probably have a lot more views. Every single 'British' 'news' is females, family, females talking to females about females - preferably their feelings, & especially if they're all foreign. Not on the agenda is facts, breadth, depth, analysis, precision, actual commentators that people know, recognise, are engagingly knowledgeable. The thing that really irritates tho', at a personal level, is their face-pulling, face-waving, imploring & beseeching, & all the grasping or clawing hand-waving. & that little bounce on the balls of their feet that they do when they skip-off a 'thing'. - oh, & the 'clucking' arm movements.
You're taking about the black kid shot dead by the police? Media adopting the blm narrative yet again...
@@mrror8933 - VD literally pulled-up the teas maid & gave him the forums ground, sympathising all the way & hanging-on to every unchallenged/questioned utterance as tho' it were intrinsically valuable, whilst generally omitting any detail. >Holy
@@gitfoad8032 sorry, who or what is VD?
@@mrror8933 - Victoria Derbyshire.
To be honest Question of Sport should of been dumped years ago along with Dr Woke
Why are most of the dancers on Strictly foreigners, when there’s plenty of British dancers around?
Cheaper would be my guess. See the Premier League for similar abundance of foreign players over British ones.
Havent watched any Bbc show concerned with politics since the slow Brexit. At the time I was irritated by the partinsaship but now Im beyond that and its the sheer nonesense and myopia that I cant bear.
He didn't say this when he worked at the BBC
That does not mean he wasn't thinking it. Being fired isn't great for your life. There is also a chilling effect of being the lone voice against the rest. Rod said only one Newsnight staff member admitted voting for Brexit. My thought was how many more were too scared to tell even someone on-side such as Rod?
Love the theme music!!
Fair remarks on the BBC. Although I actually like Ugo and Sam Quek... I mean, you can't question their sporting credibility.
I think it more likely that the decline in _Newsnight_ viewership is down to the decline in the viewership of network TV as a whole (which I think is a good thing) overtaken by Internet, and for the young playstations and Facebook.
BBC editor Esmee Wren
Inky improvement for the bbc is to get rid of the license fee and have a subscription service. Stop charging people for just having a telly, when the majority of the young and not so young will never watch this biased station.
That would turn the BBC into PBS, the US public broadcaster that almost no one there watches. There is no way a subscription service would be able to fund or justify the likes of BBC Radio 3 which is very dear to many influential people. So it isn't going to happen.
The difference is Mark Urban is a proper journalist, we used to have lots of those at the BBC, they are thin on the ground these days. Frank Gardner, Bridget Kendall, Lyse Doucet, John Simpson, although John, sadly, now lets his own views colour his output far too much. Many of the best male BBC journalists now work for Al Jazeera's English TV service. Forced out for being too old and too male. I used to be a regular viewer, but as Rod said Emily Maitlis and co drove me away. Will tune in again.
Mass hysteria will break out at the BBC when Trump returns.
You should get Dick Morris on. He really knows his onions.
Oops, Morecambe and Wise weren't Tories.. they Supported the Labour Party. . Late 70s they left the BBC for ITV.
Well, there's hope on the horizon. They might be able to regain their lost viewers after 30 years if it hasn't gone up in smoke in the meantime.
Is it me or has the BBC coverage been the only channel covering the views of none white individuals talking about the end of the monarchy and the colonialism they even go abroad at our expense to interview disenchanted lefties , instead of being a unifier on such an occasion it appears to want to be the catalyst of strife and dissatisfaction.
The bbc should be defunded on both its blatant political bias, and the repetitive dross it puts out !
Has Rod got all gravy on his sleeve, like its gone in soup?
Special media are influenced by main media and vice versa. It is not a BBC only issue. Both platforms gain
Sound.
Rod’s head looks disembodied, he may very well be making some good arguments but it’s very distracting.
Freddie's got a spiffing haircut.
11:55 Sam Queck!
Sam Queck!
I stopped watching the BBC years ago and just switched to their radio content, then that became increasingly terrible and I gave up on that as well. They'll have a difficult job winning back the attention and trust of consumers like me, I'm afraid. I'm sure they're heart-broken.
Hence, the comedy programmd W1A based on the BBC.
Most unfunny programme ever. Embarrassingly bad.
1m down to 200,000 is similar to CNNs numbers.
BBC got 5 years left, and good riddance
Not in my house. It has already gone.
@@icdgyixifyinstereo same pal
He's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one
Because that's what important about news and current affairs journalists, their private lives? #GrowUp
I haven't seen Rod's ears above his shoulders for months at the very least, has he got back problems?
Very glad Rod didn't light up a cigarette. I thought for a moment he was going to.
What's the problem? I'm about to light one up now.
I remember JEremy Hardy- derivative, not very funny and left wing. He was a feature on the BBC and his humour was like being locked in a diving bell with Rick from "The Young Ones".
Ed Reardon lives ! 👍👍
Is it 6 degrees of Emily maitlis or Naga Munchetty?