TV Licence a.k.a. the BBC tax - no, not again.

[Danllan]

Well, I've paid my licence fee for as long as I can remember despite, in recent years, being monumentally nauseated by the BBC's political bias and PC preaching. I like the idea of the BBC as an institution, but not what it's become, and reading the article below - I quote some of the more revolting text - has tipped the balance for me, I'll not subsidise the BBC any more if I can avoid doing so. I've been aware of some people campaigning to 'de-fund the BBC', and have thought little of it until now; as of this evening I am all for it and will happily donate to organisations seeking to achieve this.


Inspired by tools from Everyday Racism (a project dedicated to the experiences of racism), here are five ways to stop racial gaslighting:

1. If someone who is BIPOC (black, indigenous* and people of colour) shares their experience of racism with you, learn to listen carefully to what they have to say and acknowledge their feelings.

2. Educate yourself on racism and understand the issues related to white privilege.

3. Ensure that you offer support and empathy and don't question a person's lived experiences of racism.

4. Recognise if you have internal defensive responses to racism.

5. Call it out and be an ally to those who have suffered from racism and the forms that it manifests in.


*The feeling of indigenous British people are, it would seem, not to be taken account of.

'Racial gaslighting made me feel like a foreigner in my own home' - BBC Three

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Raider112]

What exactly is white privilege? I can think of quite a few things that Blacks, Muslims, etc. take for granted but if the word white replaced the word black or similar there would be outrage.

 

[Tigger]

 

[Tigger]

And from another article online:

"The BBC is losing the plot. Last week it announced a cull of local radio and regional television staff – sacking one in six people working on regional programmes in England. This week, there has been huge speculation that the BBC will scrap Politics Live, one of its flagship political shows.

The ostensible reason for the cuts is the funding deal reached with the government in 2015. But it is what the BBC has chosen to cut – and what it has chosen to keep and promote – that is so telling.

The cuts to regional programmes are projected to save around £25million. But the week before that, the BBC pledged £100million on a new diversity initiative in response to the Black Lives Matter protests. But as I explained on spiked at the time, the BBC does not even have an ethnic-diversity problem. The proportion of both on-screen contributors to BBC programmes and BBC staff who are BAME is actually higher than the BAME population in the country as a whole.

At the same time, the kinds of shows that have been targeted for the axe are the embodiment of public-service broadcasting. Politics Live grills and challenges politicians and thinkers from across the political spectrum. Regional programmes like the award-winning Inside Out provide local current affairs, and can hold local politicians accountable. Programming like this enhances democratic life, and arguably offers something the private sector would not. And yet this is not what the BBC seems to value.

Clearly, what the BBC values above all else is the cult of wokeness – even if it alienates the vast majority of its audience. Two examples from this week illustrate this perfectly. First was BBC Sound’s now-infamous podcast, No Country for Young Women – a ludicrously woke show, which focuses on ‘life, love and work in a white man’s world’. The BBC Sounds Twitter account pushed out a clip in which two posh white women told older white women that in order to avoid being ‘Karens’ (essentially the female equivalent of gammons) they should ‘educate themselves’, stop being so ‘defensive about their whiteness’, ‘get out of the way’ and ‘basically leave’. The BBC eventually deleted the clip following an enormous backlash.

The second was a BBC News clip in which a group of black plus-sized models criticised the (already woke) ‘body-positivity movement’ for being insufficiently inclusive. It was the strange mixture of lifestyle trash and identitarian grievance-mongering that has been perfected by the likes of Buzzfeed over the years. You might have forgiven the BBC if it had put it out under its youth strand, BBC Three, since it became online only. But the clip was put out as if it were actual news.

The real news is not much better. On a segment on Radio 4 last week, a reporter falsely asserted that Brexiteer Darren Grimes describes his YouTube show as ‘a safe space for racists and homophobes’. In the end, it turned out that the fake quote was lifted from hyper-woke website Pink News (which had already issued its own correction).

Similarly, a BBC News article at the weekend described the current crop of (mostly Conservative) Asian MPs in parliament as ‘recalcitrant Brexiteers with muddled perspectives on Britain’s imperial history’. We know what many who work at the BBC think of Brexit, but you might think they would make an effort to hide it.

It’s been clear for some time that the BBC has struggled to marry its coverage of the culture wars with its commitment to impartiality. But its output in recent weeks has been extraordinary, and the lines between reporting and analysis versus opinion and activism seem to have disappeared entirely."

 

[ollie989898]

I will not pay for the BBC when it becomes a subscription service. Jeremy whine should not be on 300K a year.

 

[MrNoo]

I will not pay for the BBC when it becomes a subscription service. Jeremy whine should not be on 300K a year.

Cancelled mine. Stuff Vine what about that idiot Lineker on 1.5m

 

[Henarar]

Cancelled mine. Stuff Vine what about that idiot Lineker on 1.5m

Lineker is on 1.5m ?
greedy bugger

 

[ollie989898]

Lineker is on 1.5m ?
greedy bugger

No idea why, he has the personality of a goldfish.

 

[Bootneck]

Stopped paying mine a few months ago. Fed up of ill informed vegan propaganda, political bias etc. My cousin works for a demining charity in armenia, where in the last few days armed conflict has broken out over the border with Azerbaijan. He listens to bbc World service for news of the area and says all regional bbc reporters there are based in Azerbaijan and are basically reporting the same line taken by the Azeri government, no attempt to balance with opinions or analysis from armenian perspective.

 

[Danllan]

Stopped paying mine a few months ago. Fed up of ill informed vegan propaganda, political bias etc. My cousin works for a demining charity in armenia, where in the last few days armed conflict has broken out over the border with Azerbaijan. He listens to bbc World service for news of the area and says all regional bbc reporters there are based in Azerbaijan and are basically reporting the same line taken by the Azeri government, no attempt to balance with opinions or analysis from armenian perspective.

Many years ago in Africa I listened to and - rightly - trusted the World Service; various local despots hated it because it was an unstoppable source of truth for the people there. Now it's just the media wing of a nauseating left-liberal-woke alliance.

This really strikes me as crazy! It's the BBC, it was a bastion of truth and free thinking, education too. Now it ignores 'inconvenient' news, creates other news to support its agenda, and sees its role toward our children not as one of education, but of indoctrination...

 

[Ashtree]

I notice with alarming regularity, that what I have come to recognise as “post colonial traumatic stress syndrome”, increasingly manifests itself in wild attacks on the BBC in particular, and the mainstream media in general.
Hopefully, with the bus loads of cash which will come the way of the NHS, once the last vestiges of the EU “rule” is over, a concerted public health campaign will underway, to create a better understanding of and care plan for this debilitating condition.

 

[robs1]

I notice with alarming regularity, that what I have come to recognise as “post colonial traumatic stress syndrome”, increasingly manifests itself in wild attacks on the BBC in particular, and the mainstream media in general.
Hopefully, with the bus loads of cash which will come the way of the NHS, once the last vestiges of the EU “rule” is over, a concerted public health campaign will underway, to create a better understanding of and care plan for this debilitating condition.

The BBC was a great organisation and highly regarded world wide as well as in the UK, the problem is the word WAS because there is a large and clever growing number in this country that now realise it's a disgrace to neutral reporting..
If it has to rely on subscribers to pay for it it's in big trouble

 

[ollie989898]

BBC has become very much like the guardian, it's trying it's damnedest to appeal to the younger audience and so it's basically become a liberal mouthpiece now. They will portray anything they can in a way that gives them the maximum exposure in an effort to appeal and appease as many folk as they can. It's days as an impartial and objective broadcaster are over. I will not pay for it when it becomes a subscription service. I'd sooner watch Al Jazeera which has a more international range rather than trying to endlessly shove the plight of the next group of complainers in your face.

 

[Ashtree]

The BBC was a great organisation and highly regarded world wide as well as in the UK, the problem is the word WAS because there is a large and clever growing number in this country that now realise it's a disgrace to neutral reporting..
If it has to rely on subscribers to pay for it it's in big trouble

The cohort to which I referred to in my previous post, have quite a number of erstwhile pillars of society and democracy in their sights, in this mass “populist” mode sweeping the country, apart from the BBC!
The NHS for example ..... should have managed the pandemic much better, while Boris and Cummings openly defied public health advice.
The Judiciary for example .... should have rolled over, and blatantly sided with the populist movement post referendum.
Nicola Sturgeon for example .... despite winning handsomely the popular vote in Scotland on a clear manifesto, is pilloried on here as a traitor.

The list goes on .... tactics previously and devastatingly deployed by the German Nationalist Socialist Movement are very well mimicked here. Aided and abetted by Vlad in the background.

That raises another point, the undoubted “collusion”, between the Tory Party and Vlad, as outlined in today’s published report.
Watch Boris sweat in next PMQ’s, when barrister Starmer slowly and precisely, builds the case for collusion ....!

 

[ollie989898]

The cohort to which I referred to in my previous post, have quite a number of erstwhile pillars of society and democracy in their sights, in this mass “populist” mode sweeping the country, apart from the BBC!
The NHS for example ..... should have managed the pandemic much better, while Boris and Cummings openly defied public health advice.
The Judiciary for example .... should have rolled over, and blatantly sided with the populist movement post referendum.
Nicola Sturgeon for example .... despite winning handsomely the popular vote in Scotland on a clear manifesto, is pilloried on here as a traitor.

The list goes on .... tactics previously and devastatingly deployed by the German Nationalist Socialist Movement are very well mimicked here. Aided and abetted by Vlad in the background.

That raises another point, the undoubted “collusion”, between the Tory Party and Vlad, as outlined in today’s published report.
Watch Boris sweat in next PMQ’s, when barrister Starmer slowly and precisely, builds the case for collusion ....!

You reckon Vlad conspired to have Boris elected?

You mean he decided not to get the terrorist sympathising, nuclear disarmament-ing Corbyn elected? Give Vlad some credit. He ain't that thick. I'm sure he can see a Santa Claus as well as the next man.

 

[Ashtree]

You reckon Vlad conspired to have Boris elected?

You mean he decided not to get the terrorist sympathising, nuclear disarmament-ing Corbyn elected? Give Vlad some credit. He ain't that thick. I'm sure he can see a Santa Claus as well as the next man.

Nooh!! Tories in power before the last election. Saw the report into Vlad’s skullduggery. Made the conscious decision to look the other way, and not to let the voters know. Cui bono?

 

[Danllan]

Nooh!! Tories in power before the last election. Saw the report into Vlad’s skullduggery. Made the conscious decision to look the other way, and not to let the voters know. Cui bono?

You, of all people, quoting Cassius...?

You made mention earlier of one of your usual whinges, 'colonialism', this time with a bit of stress thrown in; but what of your desperate inferiority complex, even with the EU 'security blanket'*, you never seem to respond to that despite asking so many questions of others.

Interesting your mention of Ms Sturgeon and democracy, but fail to point out that in the 2019 General Election parties supporting the Union got >8% more votes than the party advocating leaving the Union - or do you not think that their votes count because they don't suit your view ?







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[Gong Farmer]

Haven't had a licence for years.
Did you know Bill Gates is a funder of the BBC?

 

[Exfarmer]

Haven't had a licence for years.
Did you know Bill Gates is a funder of the BBC?

Bill Gates paid the Bbc World service to broadcast programmes to Bihar in India.
This was public information broadcasting which has no impact on programming in the UK

 

[Ashtree]

You, of all people, quoting Cassius

Good heavens, I was unaware that the musings of Cassius, were reserved for any self appointed individual or group to quote!