Not me though. The only thing that surpasses their malevolance is their incompetence…
The more extreme they get the less talent they end up with.
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mediabiasfactcheck.com rates the BBC as left-centre biased and highly factual.
I think they pretty desperately need to review that, because it’s somewhat damaging to their credibility at the moment. Or perhaps their system of rating bias on the basis of choice of language is too simplistic to be of any real value, and doesn’t take into account far more insidious forms of bias/outright propaganda, like false equivalency or biased omission of facts, both of which the BBC are masters at.
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I mostly ignore their left-right scale. It’s usually at least one rating further left than it should be and based on the false idea that centrist=unbiased. There was a time when it had the Socialist Standard as more right wing than most Democratic news sources based on unbiased language, which was hilarious because the Socialist Standard is the party magazine of the Libertarian-Marxist SPGB.
Highly factual is based on the BBC’s previous history of lying by omission, which came in when they got caught re-editing the Battle of Orgreave to make the cops look good.
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It looks like Football Focus and Final Score won’t be on today.
I haven’t had this much fun watching the Tories fuck up in years.
ETA:
At this rate the BBC will only be reporting on the North-West Counties league.
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This is beautiful. It’s a shame the BBC’s news and current affairs department don’t have the backbone that their sports presenters have.
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Considering how popular football is in the UK, we could have a general election by the end of next week.
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It’s confirmed now
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I went on to the Torygraph site to see how they are covering it and, after ten minutes dealing with their malicious compliance with GDPR, saw they have two attack articles on Lineker out of the five on the front page. Maybe even they can’t quite spin this one?
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I think there’s also another aspect to the national action logo, which is a deliberate resemblance to the squatter punk symbol. When NA first appeared on the scene, I recall them being talked about with regards to fash co-opting radical left/anarchist aesthetics.
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NS131 (National Socialist Anti-Capitalist Action) was another group that appeared after National Action was proscribed and was “a platform dedicated to promoting and spreading NS street art and physical propaganda” according to its website.
1419131 sound like a phone number.
Weirdly the origins of this logo are lost…
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I think the Tories have gone (inadvertantly, maybe) full Streisand effect over their reaction to Lineker’s (entirely fucking accurate) statement. They blew this up, painted the useless beeb into a corner, and are now going to reap the benefits of their idiocy.
As per usual.
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I’d agree when it comes to their travel pieces, or stories on archeology (that don’t involve colonial looting) but their hard news lost me entirely after their coverage of the lead-up to the Iraq war. 
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… and we can’t assume their reporting on Ukraine or Myanmar or (gawd forbid) Taiwan will be any better, even if they seem to be on “the right side”
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That’s some good Pie.
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It shouldn’t just be the chairman. the Director General has to go too.
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Kinda funny/not funny to see that’s a BBC piece.
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With high electricity prices causing widespread poverty, this was possibly not the best move:
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