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BBC News to bear deepest cuts amid 2,000 planned job losses
(www.theguardian.com)
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Of course I hate to see media be gutted like this
But let's be honest, the BBC also completely fucking sucks. From holding off reporting to 'not upset Number 10' to whitewashing Israel's Genocide through their Jerusalem office, to their blatant transphobia, the BBC is morally bankrupt. They're trying to appease the right and the far-right when no appeasement will ever satisfy the side that has long ago decided the BBC should burn.
The exact same thing has happened across all of 5 eyes, so I assume all of 14 eyes and probably the rest of the developed world; successive conservative and neoliberal governments have "starved the beast" by cutting public funding, appointing morally bankrupt leadership, etc, etc.
It's almost like this wholesale destruction of public broadcasting is all by-design of our capitalist oligarchies, to benefit the private media propaganda machines they have constructed in parallel.
Yep, nailed it. The whole accusation of 'you're too left-leaning' when the reality is, public broadcasters are more neoliberal or even rightwing than ever, just to overcorrect for this false accusation
What these other splendid bastards have said. You've missed the point friend. You're seeing the result and not the process or the cause.
The BBC used to be a jewel in the UK's public services crown. Now it's been corrupted and starved; and you want to level the blame at its feet?
Yes. They still have a responsibility to do accurate and unbiased reporting and their reporting has not been unbiased on many issues. I understand it has been a long process of breaking it down, but I refuse to lower my expectations or standards simply because they fail to reach those standards. If we all lowered our standards like that we might as well all watch Fox News.
Yeah but my point is that isn't the BBC's fault. It's the governments we've had.
If we had an anti-authoritarian liberal government willing to give freedoms rather than take them away, they could start to fill the BBC with people who think likewise.
That would then reflect in the type of reporting.
True, but this is the issue with public media isn't it? That any government can influence it no matter how much everyone pretends they don't or shouldn't. I'm still holding them to the standard of fair and independent reporting because it is the standard they must reach at any and all times.
But yeah as the BBC stands right now it is painfully obvious they're not independent at all unfortunately