🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/t... - ThreadSky

bylinetimes.bsky.social • 3 days ago

🔴The BBC Must Be Mutualised to End Its ‘Pro-Establishment Bias’ Warns Report

It finds that BBC reporting is overwhelmingly focused on the concerns of senior politicians and business people around Westminster, rather than the country at large

https://bylinetimes.com/2025/05/14/the-bbc-must-be-mutualised-to-end-its-pro-establishment-bias-warns-report/

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rocketdaz.bsky.social•3 days ago

And sorting out the abysmal dire programming...
I don't know what demographic they actually think they are serving, but the repeating schedules are a pathetic joke...

marchogdu.bsky.social•3 days ago

Good...tear it down start again with unbiased journalism at its core...no more jobs for friends of ministers, no political affiliations at the management level, just reporting the truth whoever it makes look bad! If the people are paying for it Via TV licence then it's only beholden to us...

herrmckenzie.bsky.social•3 days ago

Absolutely! They got away with it for to long

billebrill.bsky.social•3 days ago

The BBC must be pro-democracy.

cps10001.bsky.social•3 days ago

Senior politicians???

It seems to be the Reform Broadcasting Corporation.

mrl55.bsky.social•3 days ago

It is and also it should be required to show balance in who it has on its political programmes. ATM is a Reform campaign as it was a Tory one

leedsjohnlufc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Like Emily Maitless said, we also need to eradicate the false balance, that is endemic at the BBC!

Viewers must be made aware when millions of scientists says there is man made global warming, and only an handful say there isnt, & that should be represented in debates and information!

rabidcormorant.bsky.social•3 days ago

It already has a charter mandating impartiality, spank it with that

hollybrigstocke.bsky.social•3 days ago

I would view Labour's plans with a lot of suspicion.

* It's a distraction from regulating media and media ownership.

* They rigged their own party to have the appearance of democracy.

* Nandy refuses to use her powers to stamp out transphobia.

* Nothing about this stops the BBC being privatised.

mediareformuk.bsky.social•3 days ago

Hi Holly & thanks, we agree that the government must do much more to radically reform our broken media. You can read our proposals in our Media Manifesto⬇️

As for privatisation, our model would permanently guarantee the BBC's public status by detaching its ownership from unilateral political control

tsunami65.bsky.social•3 days ago

Now tell us something that we didn't know

petergarbutt.bsky.social•3 days ago

Yes, we know, but WTF are we doing about it?
I suggest getting rid of the political classes altogether.
Here's how;
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/politics/sortition-revolution-a-bold-plan-to-avert-civilisations-collapse/

mandymoo7.bsky.social•3 days ago

Really? What about the English bias as a result of this?Scottish person here who has watched Reporting Scotland descend into an afterthought. No real reflection of Scottish news, people, culture.

mediareformuk.bsky.social•3 days ago

We propose that a mutual BBC must also be a devolved BBC, with communities across the UK's nations and regions having BBC services operating independently in those communities with direct public participation & collaboration with local civic institutions e.g. libraries, schools, colleges

ringfence.bsky.social•3 days ago

a substantial portion of high-earning BBC staff and presenters are privately educated. Yet only 6.5% of the population are privately educated. It was set up by the establishment, for the establishment

coffindodger.bsky.social•3 days ago

As the historian AJP Taylor wryly remarked, Reith had
“managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC…by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the BBC, was secure so long as it was NOT exercised."

found-a-username.bsky.social•3 days ago

C4 News is the only one worth watching.
They challenge everyone and continued to cover Gaza and Ukraine, when they dropped off the BBC's radar.

fieldbean.bsky.social•3 days ago

Has always been the case but post war those people had a connection with everyone else. Now there's an absence of common experience.

sixesalltheway.bsky.social•3 days ago

That is actually a decent policy proposal: it's success & impartiallity would very much hinge on the "members panels" but a publicly-owned & directed national broadcaster really could at least be part the remedy to all of the hard-right mass media.

cammy66.bsky.social•3 days ago

What country? Im Scots not english welsh or Irish. Maybe try countries

kaybell27.bsky.social•3 days ago

The BBC under its present Board is run by right wing elite, their focus therefore on the establishment reflecting their bias. The suggestion finally Nandi is going to resolve this problem is excellent news, the BBC should be accountable to the public who would ensure reporting is balanced and fair.

didionecon.bsky.social•3 days ago

I received a survey from the BBC yesterday and the prompts were things like: 'As the BBC belongs to the UK public, we think the BBC should have something for everyone, be easily available to everyone, and be used by everyone.'

didionecon.bsky.social•3 days ago

'In the future, how important or not do you think it is that the BBC offers something for everyone?'

A basic rule of survey design is not to prime the person you are surveying to give you the answer you want.

didionecon.bsky.social•3 days ago

And none of this addresses the real issue with the BBC, which is whether the current management is able to discern what people outside London and outside the middle class need from the public broadcaster.

godot47.bsky.social•3 days ago

It should be made to be a self funding streaming service. The BBC has failed to be a public service broadcaster since c.2016

leedsjohnlufc.bsky.social•2 days ago

Nah!

harrtownjaz.bsky.social•3 days ago

It needs to stop being a Corporation and go back to being a Service..

Disband the BBC...and have a BBS instead... ran along similar lines to PBS

mediareformuk.bsky.social•3 days ago

Thanks for your comment. Our report proposes transforming the BBC into a Public Service Mutual, a new kind of institution which - unlike its current corporation status - would be owned and controlled by its members, the British public. We also see its role expanding beyond broadcast & into tech

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