Looks more like this dessalines guy is not a reliable source of information.

I mean shit, there's some validity to that argument at times.

Dessaline did not understand the difference between "credible" and "biased". Which is why he often confused between the two.

Of course it isn't, have you seen the crap they write about Gaza?

Sad to see how they've fallen. They were considered the gold standard of journalism.

If this was about actual critisism of the BBC and them not living up to actual journalistic standards, then i could agree with this.

But we know its not, its because they disagree with his picture of reality. So a shitty chinese propagabda source with blatantly lower journalistic standards would be seen as a legitimate source, simply for being anti-west or pro China.

This is probably the least controversial thing dessalines has said.

The average thing the BBC posts may not be outright lies but I wouldn’t go as far as calling them credible.

Are there reasons to criticize the BBC? Yes. For example, their whole Devil's advocate/false balance approach to reporting. Everything has a "matter-of-fact" feel to it that even if what reporting is factually true, it lacks the nuance and complexities of the issue at hand.

Some people have a lot of trouble existing in an environment unless they are "the ones in charge" who can dictate to everyone what's going on and what's allowed and not. They can just issue orders, and people can obey or suffer the consequences.

People who are trying to lead (and garner respect and support for their decisions and the reasons behind them) just react totally differently and talk to people totally differently than this.

They have a lot of bias against migrants and trans people. They have this both-sides-ism where they give opposing sides equal validity even when one is quite loony. The result? Incredible surges in transphobic politics and TERFism and xenophobic rhetoric and the rise of the far right under Nigel Farage. Sometimes foreign news tends to be of a better quality than domestic, but they are plagued with the same issues as other news sources. Funding cuts are something else they deal with as despite their slow move to a nationalist perspective, the Government still questions their purpose, and so they often try to appease those groups.

There's a lot to criticize about the BBC

Fully factual statement. BBC is a Zionist ran tabloid.

Why do you even get worked up about that statement, you are embarrassing yourself. The BBC laid bare their orientalism by acting as a mouthpiece for Israel troughout the Palestinian genocide, it‘s not an untrue statement. Get a grip.

I mean, they're literally state media. They're ok on some subjects, but do have various biases.

I thought the purpose of this comm was to shit on tankies like bullies in high school, not to elevate their opinions.

Based take, keep it up

News is - and always has been - unreliable. Complex topics condensed to digestible, engaging narratives. Biases both overt and subconscious always creep in, even if it’s a subtle choice of words. Important data, context, and facts are always missed. Opinions find their way in and op-eds further confuse issues.

There is no single source of news that can be trusted and even if you dig deep you can never know how much you really know, how much you really missed, or how compromised you’ve been by all the subtle biases in writing style and coverage.

Take everything you read anywhere with copious amounts of salt and suspicion.

yeah, im not defending bbc, or any big mainstream portal owned by a lizardface fuckhat

Why does it seem like tankies repeat talking points ad verbatim? If I have a penny every time I hear BBC for being biased and unreliable, I would have already retired. What do they think of RT or any Chinese media? I always say that these terminally online tankies are extremely sad people who are only larping as communists to feel a sense of belonging in a group. They're literally just a gang doing things just for the fun of it.