Does Rod Liddle so want to reincarnate the BBC of the past that he is looking through Rose tinted glasses? Think that he has so convinced himself he sees glimmers of hope today. Sorry Rod this time you are so-o-o-o-o off the mark. It has had its 9 lives!!!
@@turbolevo8703 And Toby Young is far too boastful about his conspicuous consumption (only the most expensive chocolate truffles, consumed in vast quantities); I can't understand how his wife puts up with him - or how Lionel Shriver's husband puts up with her conspicuous meanness (refusing to turn on the heating, even on the coldest days). Dot Wordsworth and Dear Mary (skilfully avoiding Pseuds Corner) are, however, little gems.
I gave up on Newsnight & BBC after seeing Kirsty Wark climax on the programme after one of the later feeble attacks on Trump, with her flashing eyes and excitedly breathing "we've got him this time".
I have to admit that the few times I watch her I can find it difficult understand her questions because of her accent/delivery. Anytime I see Mark Urban on I watch the programme. Otherwise I switch channels. I watched the programme for years until ten years ago. I listened to Today every morning from 1981 to about 2000 but gave up then due to its increasingly boring bias.
After watching the queues for the Queen's 'Laying In State' by the British people, I was amazed to see the difference in people represented by the BBC in their Soap Operas and other programmes To be fair ITV Adverts are the same.
@@icdgyixifyinstereo Yeah, you know, the average British Xmas dinner these corporations like to show now, with three mixed race couples and some muslims and sikhs invited round just to complete the totally average picture.
Rod Liddle can be a bit of hit or miss on topics but in this case he is right on the money. The BBC has become a creature of some wonder as it sheds audience satisfaction, faces competition from streaming services and demands for an end to the Licence Fee and yet seems to arrogantly ignore all danger signals as it approaches its demise. A Greek Tradegy in Gt Portland St perhaps !
@@Christian___ it’s not tax. You don’t choose if you pay tax or not. You could use your wasted TV hours doing something worthwhile. The BBC is a worldwide brand that capitalists want to get their grubby fingers into. Same as the nhs. I watched an itv drama the other night and it was crap. Adverts ruined it and the quality wasn’t up to bbc or sky standards at all.
@@Theactivepsychos I agree with you that ITV is also garbage; I don't watch TV, I don't know any millenials that do. It recieves £98 million in government grant money. It doesn't pay any tax--while it's complaining about how Amazon pays almost no corporation tax, they usually pay 0.4% corporation tax. While unspent Netflix subscriptions count as profit for Netflix that it has to pay tax on, the same is not true for unspent Licence Fee money for the BBC, which it usually hands out in bonuses or African hardwood desks to it's management. No capitalist wants the BBC; without government forcing people to buy license fees for TVs they use to watch RU-vid and Netflix, they'd have no sales.
@@Christian___ you’re clueless then I’m afraid. Look up the commercial arm of the BBC and you’ll see why whenever someone gets popular enough and their wages can’t match the private sector they move. Look at top gear. Those three realised they could get the money because they became the show. Look at Jonathon Ross. Another example of a man on bbc realising he was the wealth creator for the corporation. The BBC is a gold mine.
BUMBLING DAD/PRESIDENT Back in the 80s I started to notice a pattern in television commercials where the husband/dad was being caricatured as the bumbling fool out in the backyard blowing up the BBQ while mom and the kids watched with arms folded, rolling their eyes. Now the husband/dad is nowhere to be seen; he's been cutout of the picture. The solo superwoman is now handling everything. In short, for decades, intentionally, popular culture has been relentlessly emasculating half the population of the planet. The results are obviously pretty bad and getting worse. Now we have Homer Simpson as president.
You forgot to add all the black men they have as partners/husbands/boyfrieds watch the adverts in the uk now you would think everyone is in a mixed relationship, EVERYONES talking about but they think they are being clever and nobodys noticed, Everyone has seen it and talking about it Pathetic
I always used to rate the BBC pretty bloody good, but it is quite nauseating to me now. As Rod says, a question of sport and HIGNFY have become increasingly difficult to watch, even for just a little. Cringe worthy kind of sums it up for me now.
Exactly so, but 'processing' is putting it a bit strong - feelings are the very lowest order of processing. Newsrooms are full of birds & foreign birds, by design.
Box-ticking. Some woman we've never heard of who played hockey, an unfunny cretin who made fat Manc Jason Manford seem tolerable, and a wooden "diversity" who is there "coz he is black" (after Ali G).
@@thadtuiol1717 - drooled. *I've seen their faces on the street & in their 'dreams' - it's all obsessive stalker satiated, those maniacal gurns, the physical quiver, the drool down the chin, & those oh-so wide eyes. I remember being set-up thru' the mouth of a schizo with "Chelsea smile" & seeing the impersonator-person in the t-shirt as I walked home - how an organised gang-stalker vis the EEG clone can nervously box around their mark on a 2ft wide pavement, is a marvel.
As Malcolm Muggeridge wrote in the 1960's,"If those they employ do not obey the BBC sheepdog's bark will get excluded from the flock". The most recent being Roger Boulton.
Gb news has frightened them thank god, whatever you or others think of gb news people from both sides can debate their opinions without cringeworthy biased presenters cutting everyone off ⚠️
I doubt that. They just dismiss it and are waiting for its commercial demise. If that doesn't work Ofcom will be tasked with bringing it down one way or another.
Just loving Rod more every time he pops up to speak his mind, wonderful breath of fresh air, curmudgeon persona at it’s bloody minded best, just love him 👏🙏😎🏴
It never ceases to amaze that the left drones on about how supportive of the right or anti-left the BBC is! The Novara/Canary communists may not like that the Beeb is not extreme enough but in no way is it right-wing!
18 -30s don't watch TV any more. I'm 60 and my 3 kids are in that group, all doing different things in different places and none of them watch TV, except shows like breaking bad or game of thrones. I only really watch the news now or the odd sporting event.
What the BBC, and almost every other institution, fails to grasp is that there is an endless supply of old people. Old people die off, and lo!, there are replacement old people, just like that. Where do they come from? From da kidz.
Newspapers destroyed themselves trying to ignore older readers and capture a youth audience. They forgot the parents bought the newspaper and young people would grab it next to have a read. Young people were unwilling to pay for the newspaper.
GB news reflects my views on things more than the BBC..Sorry to hear about Sue Barker...why did they get rid of her, because they wanted to make it more diverse ?
John Humphries stated clearly when he left that he never met another person in the whole of the BBC that shared his political views and he was the lone "none lefty" in the corporation. Blair turned it LEFT big time.
Centrist. An unholy blob of centre left and centre right. A neo liberal blob who were internationalist pro e.u., pro u.n. pro Davos etc. Anyone straying out of this bracket is plotted against.
I am of the political left and absolutely agree with Rod. Joe Lycett was just not funny. I actually thought that I was missing something because it was being lauded as really funny.. it was shockingly poor - in my opinion
Some journalists still care about just that, journalism. Call it an art or a craft, people like Rod Liddell clearly just care about it for what it is ie not a blunt tool of propaganda to bludgeon people into submission with.
I stopped watching the BBC and mainstream media around 18 months ago. Even if Newsnight is showing less bias/hatred to conservatives, I will never watch the MSM ever again, primarily because they are still massively biased, politically correct, agenda pushers.
Of the title: the newsrooms in Brit are stuffed full of the shittiest tiny people, with no sense of inquiry, no interest, no knowledge base, the consensus of very similar people (women, foreign women, foreigners, soy-boys), the same fashions & dress-sense. same face-pulling, whining, hand-arm-face-waving, intonating, stories, subjects, order of broadcast, repetition, same everything. Objectivity, inquiry, interest, knowledge - all absent. I'm looking to the least qualified people for information. THAT's why all the newsrooms are followers.
Bbc definitely has a tick box for people. I.e. if there was a comedian who was blind, non white, trans, missing a limb, in a coma. That comedian would have their own show 🤣🤣
Small correction: BBC comedy requirements do not include the term comedian, that part is optional. Far more important is tick box bingo. The weirder the better: trans and black, you’re in, transvestite (but privately educated and stinking rich parents), you’re in, Indian and female, you’re in, African, you’re in (even if you went to a very expensive private school and your parents are filthy rich).
The @BBC hasn't changed in decades since I worked there, there is a very limited talent pool. The old boys club culture at the #BBC is one of what we believe, view and decide. Its a culture of personal elevation in celebrity and being loved, where without they struggle. Its a company that doesn't care or feel its answerable to it audience, so much so it's like presenting to our ignorant, childish and irasponsable viewers. To top all that, pander to the propaganda delivery rather than fact check. They are all overpaid, lazy, selfobcessed and woke. I remember many times sitting in the BBC canteen watching all those old has-beens unable to give up and cannot leave.
@@artemisjuno well I'm sorry to say I did, with John Birt as the Director General with his pathetic cost saving policy called producers choice. When they wasted so much money to external studios on useless projects which typically was to release some cash to supporting our buddies.
@@mrror8933 I can completely understand, most, obviously not all of those who work there, was by recommendation in my time it was very closed shop. They used an internal magazine Ariel where they advertised opertuinities internally only. And believe me even after all these years it hasn't changed much so I'm told by collugues maybe on the outside.
Spot on comment about unfunny “comedians” on the bbc…. The radio 4 comedy is now just utterly dire… or at least it was when I stopped listening about three years ago.
I threw out the TV 22 years ago because I refused to fund the BBC. Actually, I'm pleased to say that, one way or another, I never paid the license fee. The defining characteristic of every comedian that is given airtime is that they are not funny.
Is 'Newsnight' more neutral in its coverage? I wouldn't know,i stopped watching Question Time and Newsnight long ago and now no longer need a tv license.BBC continually profess to be impartial and unbiased.The BBC is the 'Guardian' in television guise.
Newsnight is simply Channel4 News on a later slot. The same guests are invited on and it wouldn't surprise me if the BBC editor watches Channel 4 at 7pm for that express purpose.
Question of Sport 5 million to 800,000. The BBC doesn't care,it has a license to collect free money. Your money, 3.8 billion of your money,and no obligation to make programmes you want to watch. Lazy,pinko,overpaid and entitled people who laugh at the public and think you can't do anything about it. And they want more to waste on higher wages for non talented people and that includes the production staff as well. Rod has just voiced what a lot of use already knew.
Apart from the bias the other failing not mentioned here is the BBC's penchant for paying fabulous salaries to all these left leaning staff and presenters despite all the loss of subscribers. Considering that viewer share is the prize in broadcasting it defies belief that they are retained. £1.4 million for a football presenter is total madness. I'm glad i defunded years ago.
To those posting 'Who cares what Rod Liddle thinks?' I expect the answer is those people who subscribe to The Spectator RU-vid channel or the magazine, or those who agree, more or less, with his views, or find him entertaining nonetheless. You may now rest easy, your concerns allayed.
'We're here to make them better people.' Exactly the attitude of the ABC in Oz. Don't give the viewers what they's want to hear or watch, just teach them what they should want to hear and watch. In the UK the people PAY to watch. At least in Oz they hide the sub fee in our taxes -nowhere near as blatant.
Could you not argue that the viewing figures have dropped for these programmes largely because audiences have shifted away from the main channels to the new social media platforms instead?
If I listen to anything it'll be Times Radio. Still woke but no lecturing. The phrase which makes my heart sink : "and now on BBC Radio 4, award winning comedienne..."
I think it more likely that the decline in _Newsnight_ viewership is down to the decline in the viewership of network TV as a whole (which I think is a good thing) overtaken by Internet, and for the young playstations and Facebook.
It means uncritically supporting any immigration, and calling anyone in the UK who opposes legal or illegal immigration a racist, and anyone in the rest of the world who does likewise 'far right'. For left and right read liberal/progressive and conservative/traditional. The same applies for other social issues such as abortion, gay rights et cetera.
That does not mean he wasn't thinking it. Being fired isn't great for your life. There is also a chilling effect of being the lone voice against the rest. Rod said only one Newsnight staff member admitted voting for Brexit. My thought was how many more were too scared to tell even someone on-side such as Rod?
Newsnight last night was awful. That saccharine emotional counselling session, soused in empathetic worship, was just the worst I've ever seen on what used to be Newsnight. *Unquestioning, uninquiring, unchallenging. It's like with c4n, how & why they think they're audience wants a finale report on rappers every night.
@British Brexit Confusion - you should probably have a lot more views. Every single 'British' 'news' is females, family, females talking to females about females - preferably their feelings, & especially if they're all foreign. Not on the agenda is facts, breadth, depth, analysis, precision, actual commentators that people know, recognise, are engagingly knowledgeable. The thing that really irritates tho', at a personal level, is their face-pulling, face-waving, imploring & beseeching, & all the grasping or clawing hand-waving. & that little bounce on the balls of their feet that they do when they skip-off a 'thing'. - oh, & the 'clucking' arm movements.
@@mrror8933 - VD literally pulled-up the teas maid & gave him the forums ground, sympathising all the way & hanging-on to every unchallenged/questioned utterance as tho' it were intrinsically valuable, whilst generally omitting any detail. >Holy
Inky improvement for the bbc is to get rid of the license fee and have a subscription service. Stop charging people for just having a telly, when the majority of the young and not so young will never watch this biased station.
That would turn the BBC into PBS, the US public broadcaster that almost no one there watches. There is no way a subscription service would be able to fund or justify the likes of BBC Radio 3 which is very dear to many influential people. So it isn't going to happen.
Havent watched any Bbc show concerned with politics since the slow Brexit. At the time I was irritated by the partinsaship but now Im beyond that and its the sheer nonesense and myopia that I cant bear.
Is it me or has the BBC coverage been the only channel covering the views of none white individuals talking about the end of the monarchy and the colonialism they even go abroad at our expense to interview disenchanted lefties , instead of being a unifier on such an occasion it appears to want to be the catalyst of strife and dissatisfaction.
The difference is Mark Urban is a proper journalist, we used to have lots of those at the BBC, they are thin on the ground these days. Frank Gardner, Bridget Kendall, Lyse Doucet, John Simpson, although John, sadly, now lets his own views colour his output far too much. Many of the best male BBC journalists now work for Al Jazeera's English TV service. Forced out for being too old and too male. I used to be a regular viewer, but as Rod said Emily Maitlis and co drove me away. Will tune in again.
I stopped watching the BBC years ago and just switched to their radio content, then that became increasingly terrible and I gave up on that as well. They'll have a difficult job winning back the attention and trust of consumers like me, I'm afraid. I'm sure they're heart-broken.
I remember JEremy Hardy- derivative, not very funny and left wing. He was a feature on the BBC and his humour was like being locked in a diving bell with Rick from "The Young Ones".