BBC in breach of Royal Charter

Chae1

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Aberdeenshire
And of course that is why so many of us are apoplectic with rage.
The BBC wasn’t reporting the facts, just putting their own views on it.
I do agree with what some people say on here about British farmers always playing the victim. But the other day when this was being reported i was really annoyed, and now it comes out that the report didn't even mention red meat its tipped me over the edge! That and 45000 dairy cattle face being culled in the event of a no deal Brexit. Ffs.
 

ISCO

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Location
North East
I did catch some of it and all I can say is the dairy farmer who spoke first was a real credit to the industry. Confident, fluent and well informed he not only put his point forward with plenty of facts and figures but also answered a couple of extra questions put to him by the presenter. Well worth a listen to hear someone talking common sense.
I did not hear this but this is the type of person the industry needs to promote itself. All too often the NFU wheels out some old farmer who is short on facts and not at all fluent and misses the relevant points.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
To be fair to them I always think the farmers the BBC choose to interview are very good, from professional looking farms and come across well, and are good ambassadors for our industry.
 

texas pete

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Location
East Mids
To look at agtwitter today it would appear you don't need to complain to the BBC, what you need to do is get on Twitter and solemnly post a selfie video telling your followers how much you disagree with the BBCs reporting whilst at the same time how excited you are about meeting the challenges of net zero by 2040 etc.

That way you can boost your media profile whilst appearing to be very much doing a public service.

Personally I think the climate change emergency rhetoric is complete nonsense, a political scam cooked up to enable politicians to raise taxes and virtue signal, i'm sure if I posted a video about that I could expect emerging leaders and FW columnists to que up to lecture me over my wrongthink.

Farmers would be well advised to avoid any bandwagon jumping in my view. Sustainable and regenerative ag stands on its own economic merits, the environmental benefits are a happy and welcome side effect.

There is some awfully strong virtue signaling by a few.

Born and bred to lead. You’d be mistaken for thinking some of these Twitter accounts are parody, but no, all real and I suspect posted without a hint of irony.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
Made me laugh:

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Daniel

Member
There is some awfully strong virtue signaling by a few.

Born and bred to lead. You’d be mistaken for thinking some of these Twitter accounts are parody, but no, all real and I suspect posted without a hint of irony.

Lol, Subsidyjunkie is a parody though right?!

I get the need to engage on social media and so on and perhaps I'm being cynical. But I can't get on board with this climate change rhetoric that farmers seem to be queuing up to sound off about. It's not being driven by real science, it's being driven by political posturing and media scaremongering.

I say that as someone with a couple of solar panel systems which are generously subsidised through the general public's electricity bills, so I'm as guilty of hypocrisy as anyone.
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
Rather than complain on here, shouldn't a complaint be put in to whoever the regulatory body is for this type of thing and an apology demanded? Preferably by the NFU.

Go to post 1 of this thread and you will find the link to complain direct to BBC. NFU have complained. But that is just 1 complaint. Better they get a 1000 or 10000 complaints.
 
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quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

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