Anyway, look: I stopped listening to the Today programme a while back and am now much better informed. Would recommend you do the same, until they sort their shit out.
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How can the shit be sorted out with the extant editorial hierarchy that prioritises faux ‘balance’ over journalism? Looking forward to the day when @bylinetimes.bsky.social gets a mention on the BBC papers review but won’t happen under this regime.
I totally dropped BBC when Laura Kuenssberg replaced Andrew Marr. I now listen to him on LBC and follow Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodhall on 'The News Agents' podcast which I find great
I stopped listening to it a few years ago but heard it by mistake recently - it has certainly not improved! I relied on the BBC for news since my teens (now 65) but no longer. it's really sad
Notwithstanding the BBC pile on (the article is the Times), I think the Bluesky liberal mind borge may need to concede that there are some centre right voices, that understand the USA better than we do *retires to put tin hat on*
I always used to rely on the Today programme to keep me up to date on current news! They are now one of the most right wing biased programmes on Radio 4. If I listen, I end up shouting abuse at the radio!
Until Labour have the balls to clear out the Tory chums on the BBC board news and current affairs will remain ruined. The lurch to the right has been deliberate and sustained. Another public asset ruined by the Tories.
Like many people, I gave up listening during the Brexit Referendum. Humphries, in particular, was dreadful; both incredibly ill-informed and pro-Brexit biased.
I haven’t watched or listened to BBC News output since 2020 (the Daily Covid briefings I watched on Sky as the BBC kept cutting away from the Q & A’s). The BBC has such little journalistic integrity now (there are still a couple of journalists that I respect there, but…).
I stopped listening to the Today programme during the Brexit referendum. I switched to Radio 3 in the morning. Better for my blood pressure and my wife no longer has to put up with me shouting at the radio. A win for both of us!
Been doing that, to the whole of the BBC, since their lies and corruption of the 2014 Scot Indy Ref.
Then brexit and the tories and Farage and Trump it's just an endless stream of paid for actors claiming to be independent and unbiased journalists.
It’s been clear for a very long while that the Right have infiltrated the News and Current Affairs Dept.. It’s sad and there was a time when I used to readily defend the BBC
I still defend many aspects of the BBC, but Today is absolutely not one of them.
The only plus is that many of the current government are so good at dead-batting the feeble semantic gotchas and remaining calm despite the jibes, you can almost hear the presenters' teeth grinding in frustration.
Oh I have no problem with some aspects of the BBC, such as their drama and documentaries, but their News and Current Affairs output is not my first go to source for the reasons I have given
@bbcworldservice.bsky.social is so much better than Today these days. I was holding on because Mishal Hussein was so good. Of course if you need more UK politics for work reasons it's less useful-to me the lack of it is another bonus
I'm not sure this is particularly good advice, and may encourage people to find echo chambers where all comment simply reinforces their existing views.
It's good to be challenged, and if Today is biased, we should en masse be complaining to the BBC about that.
I've listened to Today since the days of John Timpson and Brian Redhead, when it was a decent programme. These days, it's just another organ of the right wing.
Any BBC political coverage winds me up no end. The equivalence given to the likes of Farage and now Trump is beyond the pale. Just because they say something doesn’t make it true (in fact it’s normally provably a lie). They need a clear out of Tory political plants in top management.
John Humphreys was ridiculously biased during Brexit. Just because a particular opinion won by a tiny sliver of the vote it became something that could not be argued against otherwise it was going against ‘The People’
Used to listen to it on my cycle commute, had to stop when Nick Robinson dominated, haven't listened since. Too many lightweights or obviously biased presenters failing to hold politicians to account. Newsnight was similarly neutered.
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I still default to R4 Today as I wake up, start my day. Have done for 30+ years now.
But I have questioned it, as you have.
You are right, of course.
So, what then?
*I listen to many news/current affairs podcasts
On the upside it drove me to seek out quality reporting from people like your good self!
Utterly trashed by Humphreys and his cohorts..
Am no worse informed (and perhaps better) and mood is much improved. Particularly on arrival to work.
I had to give up in 2016, their coverage of Brexit was so biased and awful. It was like discovering your favourite uncle is a nazi.
Then brexit and the tories and Farage and Trump it's just an endless stream of paid for actors claiming to be independent and unbiased journalists.
https://www.resonancefm.com/programmes/5ae9a85450000b9373000004
Hard agree.
I don't think they intend to "sort their shit out".
The only plus is that many of the current government are so good at dead-batting the feeble semantic gotchas and remaining calm despite the jibes, you can almost hear the presenters' teeth grinding in frustration.
It's good to be challenged, and if Today is biased, we should en masse be complaining to the BBC about that.
I sometimes hear their radio news if someone is giving me a lift.
Like a lot of others I stopped listening to them during Brexit, and saw no reason to incense myself by going back.