Licence Fee To Be Abolished

People get very hung up on the 'impartial' aspect in finite and specific detail. Overall I think it balances out, some programmes may have certain leanings but others provide a fair counterweight.

For all the people that say Question Time (for example) is right wing, other will argue a lot of the humour of Mock the Week tends to be fairly left leaning. It's about providing balance and nuance rather than 'here's 24/365 of expressionless entertainment'.

That argument is regularly trotted out and is nonsense, whether it is applied to the BBC or any other organisation. You cannot infer that complaints from both sides means that both are equally valid.
Many people who complain are unable to see past their own confirmation bias.

You only have to look at issues that are demonstrably true -- the earth not being flat, Covid being real, climate change -- and you will always find people in denial. That doesn't mean the truth is somewhere in the middle.

There is also the Trumpian, right-wing playbook in operation. Hear a news article that is biased to the right? Then complain loudly that it is too left-wing, and some will think it must therefore be balanced. Rees-Mogg is the master of this tactic.

As an individual, it is very difficult to objectively deconstruct a news bulletin to measure bias. What you do get a sense of though, very clearly, is how it changes over time. Thirty years ago, I was sensing pro-establishment bias much of the time and 50/50 left/right bias. But now it feels like 10/90 on the latter.

I was speaking to some people recently who thought the BBC too left-wing. It turns out that they didn't think it was pro-Labour politically. What they meant was that it was too woke, pro-diversity, anti-white, anti-male, etc.

Nice to see Anna Home still active and involved. She was a driving force behind masy of the BBC's greatest children's programmes for many years.

The right sort of grounding is so important for children as regards the programmes they watch. For people of each generation certain kids TV presenters were always amongst their earliest heroes.

I'm not in favour of the licensing fee as I've said before and if one of the two major parties ever put this in a manifesto I think it can be a vote winner. But putting CBBC online could stop some children being able to watch it if they didn't have devices. I think the BBC should look at what it is the British Broadcasting Corporation and the money should be concentrated on what content they provide to the UK and not worldwide. Have a strong BBC 1 amd 2 with the core Radio stations both national and regional. Why not share CBBC/Cbeebies channels with BBC 3 or 4. One finishes at 7pm and the others start then ?

The global output is managed by BBC Studios which is a commercial organisation and not funded by the licence fee.

I was thinking about BBC World News. I want BBC to provide core content to it's key demographic like older people who rely on these channels.

Did you read my post? 

If we are cynical do we need main channel news if BBC has a news channel. Whenever I want news now if I'm not looking online go to BBC News Channel which is effectively 24 hour rolling news. Or if the main channel news bulletins suffice why have news channel. Oh it's because the politicians like it as they want us to listen to them when it suits us.

The BBC political team could have their own comedy show as they have Eric Morecambe now as political editor instead of Kuenssberg and her scarily pulled mouth plus it is good to see Stanley Baxter looking so useful under the name Nick Eardley.

I think they should make BBC2 back into what it was in the 1980s, very strong on arts and sciences, and shift Newsnight over to the news channel so it's no longer snagging up what used to be the arthouse/cult/classic world cinema slot. 

I said strongly, not solely: it used to be amazing, really strong, intense arts, culture, rock and indie, history, science programmes and slots like Moviedrome. If BBC4 is to be axed, hopefully those resources can be channeled to BBC2. It used to have a USP and right now it doesn't. 

Sooner we get rid of this woke hypocritical corporation the better.