Quite long at 45 minutes but a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of BBC bias by Charles Moore.
To my mind it also brings out very well why nothing is done about BBC bias, but only from what could be called a relaxed upper middle class perspective. From this somewhat patrician perspective the BBC is seen as unsatisfactory rather than deplorable. Worth watching though, because it is certainly incisive.
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The BBC is unbelievable.
I was going to expand on that, but that is enough.
An excellent interview - thanks for sharing. What I liked most was the point (fairly early on) about the BBC just failing to understand that anyone could want Brexit, or could vote for Trump.
It is strangely shocking to hear all those faults of the BBC discussed by two erudite and civilised people. Normally those sentiments are expressed with ranting and expletives and exaggeration. Exactly the same issues are discussed regularly on Guido, for example, with as much use of the Anglo-Saxon as the censor allows.
But, as you say, that's part of the problem. Moore is an insider just as much as the BBC leadership are, and if there is one thing the interview fails at, it is explaining how the BBC elite come to have different views from their fellow Oxbridge-educated metropolitans. If anyone takes the axe to the BBC, it will have to be a thug. An ideologue, someone who hates the bastards as much as we do, and who will show them no quarter because he believes them to be evil. A civilised gentleman could not do it.
But when it's done, I want to see it, and I will cheer them on.
I don't think an axe will ever be taken to the BBC but it will wither slowly as it loses more and more people like me. I resigned from Radio 4 listening after it was my constant companion for fifty years because it went overtly left liberal woke.
The only action to be taken against it will be the growth of alternatives such as Talk Radio, which I enjoy every morning.
Doonhamer - may be worth expanding to unwatchable as well.
Sam - I want to see it too, but I don't expect to. What Moore failed to point out is how amateurish BBC bias is given the the nature of what they are supposed to do. It seems to be a public sector thing, the inability to put aside insider bias in favour of professional standards.
Tammly - I think it will wither slowly too, as a new generation ignores the licence fee because they never watch broadcast television and never have.
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