The bbc, again.

[Teddy Eagle]

The BBC keeps making mistakes, how many do they have to before someone say it's not a mistake but incompetence or plain bias.

How many times has the BBC made a mistake and said something positive about Trump, Farage or Robinson when it wasn't true. I don't remember them apologising for a positive spin on a story about a right winger.

Apologising for antisemitic, pro Hamas, pro trans, pro DEI etc, seems to be a monthly occurrence.

Quite. It's like when shops or pubs make a mistake with your change - how many times have you been given too much?

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

The BBC keeps making mistakes, how many do they have to before someone say it's not a mistake but incompetence or plain bias.

How many times has the BBC made a mistake and said something positive about Trump, Farage or Robinson when it wasn't true. I don't remember them apologising for a positive spin on a story about a right winger.

Apologising for antisemitic, pro Hamas, pro trans, pro DEI etc, seems to be a monthly occurrence.

Do they really make more mistakes or is the truth that they make more content which is constantly scrutinised by those who have a commercial interest in its demise and that they are held to a higher standard than others?

It’s very difficult for any objective, unbiased observer to find positive things to say about bad people. Do you expect them to lie?

The BBC are not anti semitic in any way. Nor are they pro Hamas, they report the plight of the innocents in Gaza, which is very different. Nor are they pro trans or DEI. They just aren’t negative either. No apologies needed on an institutional level. Individual mistakes perhaps.

 

[Teddy Eagle]

Can we agree a truce on this for the night? The news about Becky has removed any appetite for argument and Palace kick off in 20 minutes.

 

[Wisbech Eagle]

How does that fit with the accidental hypothesis?

Quite obviously!

The mistake wasn’t noticed, by anyone, until it was pointed out. Even then there was a difference of opinion about whether it really mattered, but,on balance, the Board decided it did because it failed to meet the BBC’s own high standards. There was no intent to mislead or harm anyone. They were reporting things that Trump said, 2 out of a huge number of things he said, on the subject. They could have put any number of them together, but all ought to have been marked as separate from each other. That was the accident. Either by an over enthusiastic journalist or, more likely, just overlooked in the cutting room at the editing stage.