O/T:- Just Stop Boil

[Mapperleypie]

The public are effectively being forced to fund Huw Edwards' private life. That's why it's become such a big issue.

I hope the Sun and the BBC take each other down, if that's at all possible. All MSM needs to be flushed down the toilet.
Bring back the town crier.

The Sun should be in no position to bring down the BBC. The BBC offers the UK soft power all around the world with our arts and language output and is respected worldwide (we have lost our hard power no thanks to the Sun and the Mail etc with their Brexit campaigns). The Sun does it's best to make this country look like a bunch of buck-toothed backward looking peasants (see Brexit). The fact it used to print pictures of 16 years olds tits and now tries to take the moral high-ground over some text messages from a news presenter is laughable in the extreme. If you buy it on face value then I have some magic beans to sell you.

The media should be holding law-makers to account in all countries, not this absolute toliet-roll served up by Murdoch.

[Elite_Pie]

The Sun should be in no position to bring down the BBC.

The Sun should be in no position to bring down anyone. I can see why some think the BBC has a left wing bias, but in the Covid crisis they became nothing more than a government mouthpiece. The BBC behaved like a little lap dog. They did the daily briefings, but government ministers were given a very easy ride. The BBC allowed them to easily avoid answering difficult questions by bullsh!tting - how many times did we hear "Firstly, can I thank our wonderful / brilliant / incredible / sensational / fantastic NHS"? The BBC was pathetic, and couldn't have been more sycophantic. At least other mainstream channels like Channel 4 and ITV tried to hold them to account.

[Mapperleypie]

The Sun should be in no position to bring down anyone. I can see why some think the BBC has a left wing bias, but in the Covid crisis they became nothing more than a government mouthpiece. The BBC behaved like a little lap dog. They did the daily briefings, but government ministers were given a very easy ride. The BBC allowed them to easily avoid answering difficult questions by bullsh!tting - how many times did we hear "Firstly, can I thank our wonderful / brilliant / incredible / sensational / fantastic NHS"? The BBC was pathetic, and couldn't have been more sycophantic. At least other mainstream channels like Channel 4 and ITV tried to hold them to account.

I can't disagree with this. The way the government were given carte blanche to set the agenda on the UK news during covid was scandalous, no matter what you believe about the severity of the epidemic. The people in power were certainly not being held to account at all in any meaningful way for a long while.