Tuesday 21 August 2018

The question of BBC bias and how to complain.


Sometimes watching the BBC news,  I have to awake myself  up from the utter pointless of it all. Fawning  reports about the Royal  family, minus their excesses, combined with  its  lack of impartiality on reporting on Gaza.and the West Bank that often sees it valuing Israeli lives above those  of Palestinians. That often then fails to reflect the imbalance between what it terms "the two sides" Israel and the Palestinians. I am not a member of the Labour Party but I  also see a  daily clear and consistent bias against it's leader Jeremy Corbyn, laced with a vitriolic right wing wing rhetoric, carefully edited into incoherent sound bites, though the BBC will claim otherwise. In light of this, it's worth pointing out that Margaret Hodge's daughter, Lizzie Watson is actually Deputy Editor of BBC News, which might explain a complete lack of impartiality when it comes to the recent Corbyn /Hodge row. This is surely a clear conflict of interest.
For further info on how the BBC is packed to the rafters with right wing elements, and those with vested elements, see the following from Marcus Moore who has worked with the BBC for over 30 years, really is rather interesting reading https://imgur.com/a/NhGqZUy. Whether right or left , their most obvious political bias is one that  keeps concentrating on the Westminster bubble that often forgets the rest of us.This combined with them reporting Government policies as facts, that sees ministers barely challenged .All journalism is biased to a degree but the BBC  no longer seems to represents all the British people, only serving the vested interests of those who are already doing  alright.  So  if we don't  complain about this bias and inaccuracy, nothing will ever change.
A lot of people  are not very familiar with doing online complaints to  the BBC,but  it really is  quite simple, and  can be quite  effective. They have a duty to reply to complaints to protect their so called independence  If you ever wish to want to make a complaint,  click on  the following  link, it's so important that we continue  to to hold them to account.  http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/#anchor
You will be given some simple instructions,  and after reading and you are completely satisfied with your response, you can then  submit your complaint. Some time later usually within a few  hours , you will receive  an automated acknowledgement, and in  due course, this could be a few days, weeks or even months, depending on the subject matter.  you will  then receive a reply. All this keeps  the BBC busy, and allows us the opportunity to hold the BBC to account and stops us all from being taken for granted.

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