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Originally Posted by Mr K
It's not a profit making business, it's a public service broadcaster. It means it doesn't have 20 minutes of adverts every hour and makes programmes that others won't because they're not profitable.
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Agree.
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Originally Posted by Mr K
As for bias, all politicians try to bully the BBC. The main complaints this week have been complaints of a bias against Corbyn. A lot of their presenters have a Tory background bias e.g Kluennsberg /Nick Robinson. I'm not too worried about that as every is entitled to their own slant on things as long as it's broadly balanced out by others.
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The BBC is anti Brexit. Laura Kluennsberg is a very knowledgeable reporter, but her support for remain is obvious. I'm sure their news coverage is equally balanced. It's in the commenting on stories where the bias is easy to see. Also, Dateline London invites mainly pro remain guests, and without question anti Trump guests; the American guest always supports the Democrats. The 10:30pm paper review mainly has pro remain and anti Trump journalists as guests; it was a shock last night to see a Trump supporting journalist on.
The BBC's bias isn't overt; they're too clever for that; it's done more subtly done.