The BBC

Could this be the end of the BBC as we know it? Hope the courts here have the sane sense to throw out the legal action if it happens.

A rambling cunt shouldn't have the legal action route open to them.

Everyone should have the legal route open to them if they have a valid complaint. The problem is that most people can't afford it.

The billion dollar lawsuit is just nonsense.
The courts in the UK don't deal in such numbers for this kind of thing, and the likelihood of any lawsuit in the US being successful is almost vanishingly small.

It's just attention seeking fantasy tripe from the orange babboon, and the papers here have fallen for it, and no doubt the beeb haters will be all over it trying to use this whole thing as another stick to beat the beeb with.
All the beebs fault for putting themselves in this position in the first place of course.

The trouble is he could twist the arms of both Farage and Starmer and they probably will bend over backwards to help him get the case heard

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(09-11-2025 20:17 )skully Wrote:  Exactly. How stupid of them, he's a rambling idiot who says so much stupid shit that every sane person knows what they're seeing/hearing, and they do that.

Remember what he said how we should treat COVID?

I would think it is a fair bit more than $30 trillion I would have thought by now

Would a $1billion lawsuit actually bankrupt the BBC or even the country?

(11-11-2025 17:31 )lovebabes56 Wrote:  Would a $1billion lawsuit actually bankrupt the BBC or even the country?

Don't be daft, £1 Billion is a piss in the pond in the grand scheme of things. 1p on the headline rate of income tax alone would raise around £7 Billion.

It is clear the BBC is far from a paragon of virtue. It has made some royally stupid and reprehensible errors of judgement in 2025 and hardly covered itself in glory.

That being said it is my main go to news source even on occasions where I do not necessarily subscribe to the narrative it puts out there. The majority of its journalism I deem to be in good faith, particularly on The World Service Radio station which has a global presence in the media sphere.

The Trump edit situation strikes me as pretty ridiculous. Two segments of a speech to try to prove he incited riots and violence on Capitol Hill. I think most sensible minded folk could make their own minds up on his level of complicity in that regard on the basis of images fed through TV sets and digital devices. What the people at Panorama were playing at is anyone's guess but what a ridiculous nonsense it all is.
The tragedy is that Panorama has more often than not been a provider of excellent investigative journalism. It has exposed institutional failure and poor standards in health, education, social care and law enforcement spheres all of which seem to have been conveniently forgotten by folk.

I tend to think there are many folk who have used this episode as another excuse to lampoon the BBC and make the case for either getting rid of it or for the want of a better expression 'putting it in it's place'.
Increasingly I suspect the BBC is seen as just another arm of a corrupt establishment that seeks to tell people what is good for them and how to run their lives.
The notion of it being the national broadcaster is it seems to me being used as even more of an excuse to lament it on the basis it is too far up it's own arse and a symbol of pompous, sanctimonious, self righteous soft power. This is actually a criticism I reject at least in part. Of course there are many things the BBC could do better and yes it has made a complete dogs breakfast of some things .
But some of those who criticise the BBC go rather over the top in a way that gives a distinct whiff of prejudice and dubious personal agenda based on validation of their own opinions via a heady mix of alternative media sources.
Combine that with the notion of having to pay the licence fee and it tips some over the edge. The notion that the BBC is institutionally biased is one I have to take with a substantial dollop of salt.
Before the General Election of 2024 a lot of what I read on social media slaughtered the BBC current affairs programming for having a supposed right wing bias.
For example the host of Question Time i.e Fiona Bruce was remorselessly pilloried for biased management of the panel in favour of the Tory members of it while being supposedly anti Labour. I saw numerous accusations of Laura Kuenssberg being a Tory mouthpiece while political editor of the BBC.
Since the election result I have read a mixture of those accusing the BBC of a left wing bias and a right wing bias. If it is the case that the corporation is biased in both directions at the same time then there are some that may argue it is getting the balance about right whether it be by accident or design.

My instinct is to think people will naturally believe what they want to believe and seek what they deem to be validation of their views from whatever source. Anything or anyone that goes against the personal narrative of certain individuals is likely not to be received particularly positively especially if that narrative is being supplied at what is deemed to be a mandatory financial cost such as the Licence Fee.

The written newspaper media of this country seems to me to be far more obviously leaning one way or another than most of the broadcast media.

A final thought.
If people really do want to ram the boot in to the BBC just reflect on this.
How would you like a state controlled media the like of which exists in Russia and China? Fixed versions of events that are infinitely more controlled than anything the BBC has ever put out. Just be grateful for small mercies on occasion and pipe down a touch.

I always look at the source of the attacks on the BBC. Interesting that more often than not it seems to be right wing news & broadcast media. Mmm the very same organisatons who make no attempt at political balance and who would like nothing more than the extinction of the BBC as a public service broadcaster as they see them as major competitors to their own profits which go to often foreign based owners who pay no UK tax!

I smell the hand of Sir Robbie Gibb behind these resignations and of course he was Teresa May’s Communications Director and put on the BBC board by Boris Johnson