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Topic: Re:Re:Reply
Posted by: Jonathan Callaway
Date/Time: 09/11/25 19:23:00

I disagree with you Stephen, once again.

I have just heard that Tim Davie has resigned.  Cumulatively he has presided over too many editorial lapses though we must remember when he was appointed by the previous government he was viewed with suspicion in some quarters given his past association with the Tory Party (in Hammersmith & Fulham).  Johnson at that time was also trying to stuff the BBC board with his appointees.

Anyway, to state that "the BBC have been captured by ideological warriors" is frankly an ideologically motivated statement in itself.

The reporting by all parts of the press of the Jan 6 riots and Trump's many utterances at the time was unequivocal in condemning his actions and his incitement of the crowd.  Even the Telegraph at the time reported it in detail and echoed that view: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/0/us-capitol-riot-trump-supporters-2021-protest-what-happened-died/

When the BBC programme came out a year ago there was no reporting in any of the press, that I can find anyway, suggesting faulty and certainly not deliberate editing of Trump's speech.

What I find disturbing about this latest episode is that both the Times (who used to employ Michael Prescott) and the Telegraph (to whom his report was leaked) have managed to whip up such a storm about this that the government has felt it necessary to react and essentially echo their criticisms. Talk about ideological capture! 

These two papers - and the Mail of course - are driving a dangerous agenda which they have been pursuing relentlessly for years - the destruction of the BBC as a public service broadcaster. 

The BBC is obviously imperfect and reform to the way it is funded is probably inevitable, and Nick Robinson and John Simpson are right that editorial standards have slipped in recent years.  However, they are also right that there is a concerted campaign in the aforementioned papers, and more generally by those on the right of politics to undermine the BBC.

Personally, I find that extremely worrying and I find it worrying that this government has found it necessary to parrot the very same arguments.  Yes, serious mistakes have been made but in that regard some of these papers should hold up a mirror to themselves for once.

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Irony alert!09/11/25 09:17:00 Jonathan Callaway
   Re:Irony alert!09/11/25 10:25:00 Robert Wheeler
      Re:Re:Irony alert!09/11/25 12:27:00 Ivonne Holliday
         Re:Re:Re:Irony alert!09/11/25 12:54:00 Ivonne Holliday
   Re:Irony alert!09/11/25 12:14:00 Ivonne Holliday
      Reply09/11/25 12:26:00 Sue Hammond
         Irony upon irony09/11/25 12:46:00 Jonathan Callaway
            Re:Irony upon irony09/11/25 12:59:00 Ivonne Holliday
               Reply09/11/25 16:53:00 Sue Hammond
            Reply09/11/25 15:34:00 Sue Hammond
               Re:Reply09/11/25 18:13:00 Steven Rose
                  Re:Re:Reply09/11/25 19:23:00 Jonathan Callaway
   Reply09/11/25 18:24:00 Michael Ixer
      Reply09/11/25 19:07:00 Michael Ixer
         Re:Reply09/11/25 19:22:00 Robert Wheeler
            Re:Re:Reply09/11/25 21:43:00 Steven Rose
               Re:Re:Re:Reply09/11/25 22:33:00 Sue Hammond
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 00:02:00 Steven Rose
               Re:Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 12:37:00 Ivonne Holliday
            Reply10/11/25 00:22:00 Michael Ixer
               Re:Reply10/11/25 11:47:00 John Hawkes
                  Reply10/11/25 12:19:00 Michael Ixer
               Re:Reply10/11/25 12:28:00 John Hawkes
                  Reply10/11/25 13:31:00 Michael Ixer
         Re:Reply10/11/25 09:13:00 Lucille Grant
            Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 09:37:00 Jonathan Callaway
               Re:Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 10:06:00 Andy Pike
                  Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 10:17:00 Robert Wheeler
            Reply10/11/25 10:52:00 Michael Ixer
               Re:Reply10/11/25 11:36:00 Andy Pike
                  Reply10/11/25 12:22:00 Michael Ixer
                     Re: Brexit10/11/25 12:50:00 Lucille Grant
                     Re:Reply10/11/25 13:06:00 Steven Rose
                        Reply10/11/25 14:12:00 Michael Ixer
                           Re:Reply10/11/25 14:16:00 Gerry Boyce
                           Re:Reply10/11/25 15:13:00 John Hawkes
                        Re:Re:Reply11/11/25 20:39:00 Jonathan Callaway
                           Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 11:50:00 John Hawkes
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 19:12:00 Jonathan Callaway
                     Re:Reply10/11/25 14:34:00 Andy Pike
                        Re:Re:Reply10/11/25 15:54:00 Lucille Grant
                           Re:Re:Re:Reply11/11/25 21:47:00 Steven Rose
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply12/11/25 20:40:00 Jonathan Callaway
                           Re:Re:Re:Reply11/11/25 22:30:00 Andy Pike
                              Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply12/11/25 23:27:00 Steven Rose
                                 Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply13/11/25 22:52:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 02:41:00 Steven Rose
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 12:20:00 Ivonne Holliday
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 12:30:00 John Hawkes
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 12:58:00 Ivonne Holliday
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 13:57:00 John Hawkes
                                          Reply14/11/25 12:38:00 Sue Hammond
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 19:30:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                    Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 12:17:00 John Hawkes
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 16:35:00 Steven Rose
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 19:52:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 10:47:00 Richard Carter
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 12:05:00 John Hawkes
                                       Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 19:40:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 21:25:00 Steven Rose
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 22:07:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply14/11/25 22:10:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 11:53:00 John Hawkes
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 13:08:00 Jonathan Callaway
                                                      Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 13:44:00 John Hawkes
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 11:44:00 John Hawkes
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 12:22:00 Steven Rose
                                                   Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 13:00:00 John Hawkes
                                          Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 11:31:00 John Hawkes
                                             Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 13:19:00 Steven Rose
                                                Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Re:Reply15/11/25 21:41:00 Gerry Boyce
   Reply15/11/25 13:53:00 Michael Ixer

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