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Originally Posted by ocav
Those headlines have 2 totally different meanings, one means that it is being scrapped, one means it is being criticised.
Do you read a paper? If so is it the Daily Mail?
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No, the "removal of the spare room subsidy" is referred to as "the bedroom tax". The headlines mean the same thing. I don't know what your understanding of the bedroom tax is, but it isn't actually a tax where somebody has to pay more, it's a removal of a benefit, where somebody gets given less.
That said, I don't read the Mail, and I honestly wasn't looking to give my opinion here about that specific policy. To be honest, my opinion of it is irrelevant as far as a discussion about the BBC is concerned, and as far as news broadcasting goes I don't mind how Sky News or CNN or whoever dress up their coverage, but from the BBC, the nation's broadcaster, paid for by us through our licence fee, I don't want any dressing. The BBC should be where I go for factual reporting of the highest order. They have a hard won world wide reputation for quality. They deserve that to a certain degree, but they don't get to keep it without working hard to do so. That's the point I'm trying to make.
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Originally Posted by passingbat
But this is the overall conclusion and it says there is no hint of bias.
And Nigel Farage gets loads of exposure these days.
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I said the BBC themselves acknowledged the bias, and so it is the quotes from the person who was in charge of the news output, Helen Boaden, who acknowledged it, that was the salient point of that article, as far as I'm concerned. As far as the report's conclusions are concerned, I would suggest you'd have to question the validity of a report that includes quotes from the person in charge of news output to the effect that the output
was biased which then concludes that it wasn't, but perhaps that's just me?
And of course Nigel Farage gets loads of coverage these days - the left will be the big winners if Farage does well and splits the centre right! (Cynical, moi?)