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niyad

(128,431 posts) Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:42 PM Monday

JFC!!! BBC caves to krasnov and henchmen. Perhaps our British

members could help us understand what just happened? I would be grateful, because my head hurts, and a glitch in my computer does not allow me to link articles or videos. The BBC Director General Tim Davie, and News Director Deborah Turness resigned yesterday over accusations from a former advisor of "serious and systemic bias" including on coverage of krasnov, Gaza, and LGTBQ+ issues.The nterlocking relationships between the accuser and boris johnson, teresa may, robbie gibb, and others determined to shift the BBC politically.

As I said, my head hurts.

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JFC!!! BBC caves to krasnov and henchmen. Perhaps our British (Original Post) niyad Monday OP

Probably because libel of public figures is an easier lift in their courts than it is here. BannonsLiver Monday #1

Per the Guardian, there is, by implication at least, an ongoing reichwing (my word) niyad Monday #2

The Board of the BBC includes people appointed by the government, who are mostly Tory appointees still muriel_volestrangler Monday #3

THANK YOU!!! niyad Monday #4

Guardian article: BBC board member with Tory links 'led charge' in systemic bias claims, say insiders muriel_volestrangler Monday #5

Thank you. niyad Monday #6

BannonsLiver

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1. Probably because libel of public figures is an easier lift in their courts than it is here.

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:44 PM

Monday

But that’s just speculative on my part

niyad

(128,431 posts)

2. Per the Guardian, there is, by implication at least, an ongoing reichwing (my word)

Reply to BannonsLiver (Reply #1)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 12:48 PM

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attack on the BBC, as I mentioned.

muriel_volestrangler

(105,192 posts)

3. The Board of the BBC includes people appointed by the government, who are mostly Tory appointees still

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Mon Nov 10, 2025, 01:24 PM

Monday

in particular Robbie Gibb, who was not only Theresa May's director of communications, he also helped set up the right wing GB News TV channel (employer of Nigel Farage and many other RW politicians) in competition with the BBC. They had apparently been preventing a simple apology on the misleading editing of Trump's speech on Jan 6 (see https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/10/slugs-can-be-why-bbc-apologising-trump-documentary-what-happens-next ), which probably did need an apology - though it seems no one complained about it at the time - and insisting BBC news has systemic bias (the claims about Gaza are mainly about what BBC Arabic broadcast, and let's be frank, none of them or us speak Arabic; and I've not seen any decent description of the LGBTQ+ bias them claim, beyond "the BBC is too nice to trans people" ).

With the concrete viewable example of the Trump editing, the anti-BBC forces (including Gibb) seem to have won this battle. Heads had to roll. The BBC always has to look to keeping its funding going - by the end of 2027 its charter, authorising the TV licence fee, has to be renewed, so it can't just say "we're independent, trust us". You'd have hoped that with a large Labour majority, the charter renewal would have been straightforward, but Labour has done little to defend the BBC so far.