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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