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    BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders
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    BBC board member with Tory links ‘led charge’ in systemic bias claims, say insiders

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    1. potpan0 on

      > Sources said that Robbie Gibb, Theresa May’s former communications chief who was appointed to the BBC’s board during Boris Johnson’s administration, amplified the criticisms in key board meetings that preceded the shock resignation of the director general, Tim Davie, and the head of BBC News, Deborah Turness.

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      > While BBC insiders accept the Prescott letter contains some failings, there is also concern that it has formed part of a political attack on the corporation from within.

      > Concerns centre on the relationship between Prescott and Gibb. Sources said Gibb, who has previously been accused of interfering in editorial matters, had “led the charge” at two BBC board meetings that discussed Prescott’s memo. The most recent was last Thursday.

      All seems a bit rotten to be honest. The Tories packed the BBC with political hires who wanted the BBC at best to be a Tory mouthpiece, and at worst to just be dismantled. And now it seems like those same political hires are driving these criticisms of the BBC.

      It also kinda highlights why Labour should have been busy sweeping away these political hires the moment they were elected, instead of just letting this issue fester. Our government have been far too lazy over this shit.

    2. lordnacho666 on

      I haven’t watched it. How bad a clip is this? Does it materially change what Trump was saying?

    3. According_Parfait680 on

      Fuck Robbie Gibb. A man who co-founded a right wing propaganda machine has the gall to accuse the public broadcaster of impartiality?? He shouldn’t be anywhere near the BBC board

    4. GiftedGeordie on

      So, even when they’re not in power, the Tories are still fucking up the country while Labour are in power and are also fucking up the country, then Farage is likely to get in after Starmer and god knows what he’s going to do the country??

    5. FuzzBuket on

      Who knew that the board appointed by the pick by the tory picked by the tories to be the director general would be tories.

    6. Adventurous-Garlic93 on

      So the the top leadership of the BBC has resigned over this scandal, but “insiders” reckon it’s all a plot by those nasty tories and not thier own misbehaviour.

      Ok then.

    7. antbaby_machetesquad on

      Ironic that the beeb is now taking a leaf out of Trump’s book and blaming a grand conspiracy of nefarious enemies when caught doing something wrong. 

      It shouldn’t really be a surprise, they’ve both got form for protecting sex offenders.

    8. pajamakitten on

      People have spent years criticising the BBC without understanding what was happening to it. Cameron made it so that the government, which just so happened to be the Tories for many years, could make appointments to senior roles within the BBC. They stacked the deck with Tory sympathisers and this impacted the journalistic output of the BBC accordingly. Cuts to BBC News and the World Service only made things worse as they were forced to merge amidst job cuts. The BBC has seen its journalistic standards and credibility decline over the years, however that has been because the BBC has been mismanaged by people with a vested interest in eroding its integrity.

    9. _Rookwood_ on

      I think that some inside the BBC would prefer to keep their heads in the sand and blame a vast right wing conspiracy then to cede ground on these valid criticisms. They are truly in a bubble and if they can’t sort themselves out it will be a reform government which will have to do it. 

      The trump speech, the documentary on the Israel Palestine war, the obsession with identity politics such as stories about drag queens and Muslim hikers on the front page of their website. BBC Radio 4 which in almost every piece looks at the issue through a feminist or identity based lens. It’s clearly an institution build on soft liberal left ideals. When has it ever gone against the progressive agenda? They have lost their discipline and commitment to being a neutral, impartial broadcaster for the whole nation not for guardian reading classes alone.