Why do the BBC treat Farage & Reform differently from all other political parties & perspectives? No other perspective get this special treatment to supposedly earn back their trust. Never happened on Scottish independence, Irish republicanism or the Greens. Why Reform? - ThreadSky

gerryhassan.bsky.social • 5 days ago

Why do the BBC treat Farage & Reform differently from all other political parties & perspectives? No other perspective get this special treatment to supposedly earn back their trust. Never happened on Scottish independence, Irish republicanism or the Greens. Why Reform?

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westcoastsmirr.bsky.social•5 days ago

Robbie Gibb, Tim Davie, the now departed Richard Sharp, etc etc. Just a wild guess, this.

rantinscot.bsky.social•5 days ago

Robbie Gibb and other right wingers like him are in with the bricks at the BBC.Respected Journalists like Emily Maitlis left as a result of their bias and censorship.Farage and Reform match their mindset,and when Gibb overseas BBC impartiality, it highlights just how ridiculous the whole thing is.

britainscot.bsky.social•5 days ago

The SNP were the darlings of the media at one point Gerry, you've got a very short memory.

gendergoblinhelen.bsky.social•5 days ago

the BBC, like the rest of the press, like Reform and want them to gain power.
like Farage was one of the top 3 guests on Question Time during the coalition despite having zero MPs.

kevverage.bsky.social•5 days ago

counterpoint: it absolutely did happen with Scottish Independence - as a BBC journalist expressed it to me “we had to stop being journalists”

gerryhassan.bsky.social•5 days ago

Think that is selective memory. We know from even pro-union commentators that the BBC acted as a voice for the union. And this was even more starkly true of BBC London.

mattb3993.bsky.social•5 days ago

"Question Time has notoriously helped to create the cult of Farage by platforming him at least 39 times, presumably because he is considered box office".

The Biased Broadcasting Corporation with it's constant, unfair, unbalanced promotion of Farage and Reform is a national disgrace we all pay for.

evies13.bsky.social•4 days ago

Is that a rhetorical question, Gerry?

The BBC - under Tim Davie - has moved further and further to the right.

It previously tended to be softly conservative (small 'c') - arguably mirroring society in general.

Now, it arguably mirrors society in its rightward shift.

Mirrors or influences...

sandratofriends.bsky.social•4 days ago

Look at who's in charge, then ask why he was put there by the Tories and why Starmer keeps him there. It's where it's all going, he fills the role that's needed to lie & brainwash.

thelion79.bsky.social•5 days ago

That's democracy for you. A publicly funded broad caster has a duty to appeal to the majority of it's funders.

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