Originally Posted by
GlosMikeP
However, for my £1, the Beeb has been known for ever as the voice of reason, balance and accuracy. It's funded by the licence fee and therefore shouldn't feel the need to get the news first; it should feel obligated to get it right first time, every time though. The simple fact is, it didn't and lost credibility and goodwill (though not forever) as a result.
You are surely joking GMP. The Beeb has had a political agenda to the left of centre for years. It is so ridden with dogma and PC that to say it is the voice of reason, balance and accuracy makes me wonder if you really do listen to the message that is being so relentlessly pumped out. Not just the news and current affairs progs either. Woman's Hour, that years ago was a non-political general interest prog (I remember that marvelous actress Hattie Jacques talking about Tony Hancock's Half Hour for example), has now been taken over by the Feminist Brigade, with speakers (who invariably have American accents) forever moaning about men!. I don't for one minute deny the right of people that have such views to express them, I do protest that the method used is a compulsory annual tax on all TVs. Of course they would be hard put to fund such spiel in any other way, unless they found a billionaire who has a thing for Ermin! The days of glory, in WW2 and the 50's, are long gone. The Beeb is now a tree hugging socialist monster and needs putting down, like all corporations that proclaim themselves British, but are in fact anything but!