To fulfill its Charter the BBC is charged with offering "a range and depth of analysis and content not widely available from other United Kingdom news providers".
Does the BBC fulfill its Charter obligation?
I have heard so many people say of news items "no-one is telling us what it is really about", "we have not been given enough information". This was a frequent complaint during the Referendum but still continues.
We are seeing the same problem with the recent race demonstrations. The demonstrations are focused on the USA but racism in the EU is almost as bad. Given that the protestors are upset about racism abroad as much as at home shouldn't the BBC be enlightening them?
It seems that the BBC is deliberately suppressing any depth of analysis.
I have heard so many people say of news items "no-one is telling us what it is really about", "we have not been given enough information". This was a frequent complaint during the Referendum but still continues.
We are seeing the same problem with the recent race demonstrations. The demonstrations are focused on the USA but racism in the EU is almost as bad. Given that the protestors are upset about racism abroad as much as at home shouldn't the BBC be enlightening them?
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When talking about historical public figures the BBC again fails to mention that slavery was not officially illegal within England until the late 18th century, by suppressing this context the journalists are deliberately setting the mob on all statuary from before 1800. Indeed, pushing historical Black Slavery down the throats of black people with no mention of White or Chinese etc. slavery is flagrant racism and seems to be designed to cause division and strife..
White slavery was rife in England about 400 yrs ago and Black slavery was banned throughout the British Empire almost 200 years ago. These events are deeply historical yet the historical perspective is never mentioned by the BBC. This failure to mention the historical context that Whites and Blacks were both, a very long time ago, once slaves is deliberately fanning the protests.
On the subject of racism in the UK the BBC has omitted the Crime Survey of England and Wales, which measures the actual incidence of crime, and focused on "reports to the police" of Hate Crime. There is clear evidence that reported racism is affected by political events even when the underlying rate is scarcely changed. ( See Black Lives Matter).
According to John Humphrys BBC News Suppression and omission is the result of casual bias in the BBC editing rooms. The editors and journalists seem to be allowed to select the news that suits their political bias. This was especially evident in the Referendum when the BBC mainly covered "predictions" rather than the current state and trends of UK-EU trade and finances.
This BBC pro-EU bias is still continuing with videos being suppressed that showed that the EU negotiators were acting in bad faith with the objective of punishing the UK for leaving being more important that a fair deal. (See Do not extend the Transition Period ). One of these videos is actually a clip from a BBC documentary but the BBC has suppressed it. In the Autumn of 2016 the news media, including the BBC, were full of tales of how the UK should be punished for leaving (See Guardian article). The fact that, as the videos show, this has been happening is highly relevant. How can viewers make informed decisions about extending the transition period without being informed of the facts and context?
The BBC has merged its Global and National news desks. As a result it treats the UK as just another country. This is unacceptable for a national broadcaster. World events should be related to our national position, for instance when the murder of George Floyd was reported it might have been noted that recently the UK has only 14 or so deaths in custody a year compared with about 1000 in the US. Without this national context the door is open for any events from any place and time to be blown up into reasons for demonstrations in our UK streets.
Will Tim Davie, the new BBC Director General, put procedures in place to increase contextual reporting and monitor bias by omission?
8/6/2020
White slavery was rife in England about 400 yrs ago and Black slavery was banned throughout the British Empire almost 200 years ago. These events are deeply historical yet the historical perspective is never mentioned by the BBC. This failure to mention the historical context that Whites and Blacks were both, a very long time ago, once slaves is deliberately fanning the protests.
On the subject of racism in the UK the BBC has omitted the Crime Survey of England and Wales, which measures the actual incidence of crime, and focused on "reports to the police" of Hate Crime. There is clear evidence that reported racism is affected by political events even when the underlying rate is scarcely changed. ( See Black Lives Matter).
According to John Humphrys BBC News Suppression and omission is the result of casual bias in the BBC editing rooms. The editors and journalists seem to be allowed to select the news that suits their political bias. This was especially evident in the Referendum when the BBC mainly covered "predictions" rather than the current state and trends of UK-EU trade and finances.
This BBC pro-EU bias is still continuing with videos being suppressed that showed that the EU negotiators were acting in bad faith with the objective of punishing the UK for leaving being more important that a fair deal. (See Do not extend the Transition Period ). One of these videos is actually a clip from a BBC documentary but the BBC has suppressed it. In the Autumn of 2016 the news media, including the BBC, were full of tales of how the UK should be punished for leaving (See Guardian article). The fact that, as the videos show, this has been happening is highly relevant. How can viewers make informed decisions about extending the transition period without being informed of the facts and context?
The BBC has merged its Global and National news desks. As a result it treats the UK as just another country. This is unacceptable for a national broadcaster. World events should be related to our national position, for instance when the murder of George Floyd was reported it might have been noted that recently the UK has only 14 or so deaths in custody a year compared with about 1000 in the US. Without this national context the door is open for any events from any place and time to be blown up into reasons for demonstrations in our UK streets.
Will Tim Davie, the new BBC Director General, put procedures in place to increase contextual reporting and monitor bias by omission?
8/6/2020
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