Originally Posted by
swaledale
May be you just can't think? The thread was a response to some on here accusing certain posters of being over the top in judging Johnson and this governments performance in particular with the Covid-19 issue, and shows that even some members of his own party arent happy with him. Not surprised that BJ's apologists ignore this inconvenient truth!
Yes you've whinged (incorrectly IMO) about the endemic "failings" of the BBC, though to be honest your gripes seem to be you don't like an increase in BAME presenters and your "broadly non racist" friends agree with you. (As if that represents a significant proportion of the BBC audience!
That plus you dislike certain programmes, which frankly is not a surprise, theres much I don't like on the BBC, but I do understand that many of these programmes I detest are popular with viewers and it isn't there just to cater to my tastes and views!
Not sure that he was instrumental in restoring the a sung version of "Land and Hope and Glory", but then that was a storm in a tea cup which the right wing media whipped up and frankly not something the vast majority of people in this country were bothered about - the reasons for only having an instrumental only version were absolutely valid, nothing to do with the fake news peddled by the media. Frankly if thats seen as important in these times of crisis then we truly do live in the era of peak stupidity!
You seem not to have understood his views on diversity either so for to avoid any misunderstanding I've quoted his actual words below.
He said he regretted that the BBC had "not gone further to create a more diverse and inclusive" organisation. He pledged to make sure it "reflects more accurately the society we serve" in terms of gender, race, disability, socioeconomic status and s@xuality.
I'd be interested in your explanation as to how this aim would upset the PC brigade (whoever they may be, there really isn't a homogeneous group of people who are obsessed with so called PC, other than that created in the fantasy world of certain media organisations pandering to people who seem unable to cope with progress within society).
Of course I may have misunderstood you and your hobby horse is that the BBC was not diverse enough!
His comments on BBC employees making political or other opinions on social media seem sensible and such policies generally apply in other companies. BBC employees making comments on social media which have appeared biased towards the right and the left are at odds with impartial reporting.
On the whole we should cherish the fact that we have good quality media service that is not under the control of the state or some billionaire with an agenda. That does actually produce as factual a news service (and one that is trusted world wide) as one is likely to get, that produces a wide range of programmes that suits all tastes and is incredibly good value for money.
Of course it does not get everything right and change is bound to upset some people because thats the nature of life.
Interestingly from my perspective, we have yet another senior figure at the BBC whose known political leanings are to the right, he has been a Tory Councillor and stood as an unsuccessful parliamentary candidate for the Tory party but I will reserve judgement until we see what he does, not everyone who is Tory supporter is fanatically right wing but as I demonstrated with some actual facts about the management and some presenters in a post on another thread, claims of a left wing anti Brexit bias, mostly from a right wing press are far from the truth.