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Originally Posted by OLD BOY
If only….
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Ah, yes, I understand why I said that. It’s not as woke as the Beeb, though, to be fair.
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Sky News was owned by Murdoch for decades. He's like the anti wokeness. I really dislike the term "woke" its been way overused recently by the right wing press. Its really ironic that people on the left who complained a few years ago were called "snowflakes" now people on the right can complain about every little thing going on and they're not called "snowflakes" they're called "anti woke" its absurd.
If you want to accuse the bbc in general of having a liberal bias in its regular tv shows then i can completely 100% agree with you.
But BBC News being woke? What does that even mean?
Woke has become an insult used by opponents of movements such as Black Lives Matter, often to mock or belittle supporters of such causes.[69] Among American conservatives, the term is often used mockingly or sarcastically.[18] FiveThirtyEight's Perry Bacon Jr. writes that as of 2021, woke is mainly a pejorative used by centrists and conservatives to denote progressive politics that emphasize race or identity, often alongside the idea that critics of "woke" ideas are the victims of cancel culture.[7
How in any point has the BBC News become woke? The BBC News reports on black lives matters protests and certainly doesnt celebrate them. The BBC regularly reports on immigrants crossing the channel too? They are showing both sides?
As well as BBC news making Laura Kussenberg its head of politics as she keeps in contact with all the tory big brass and basically at times became the spokeswoman for the governments message as well as announcing hints at postal votes favouring the tories the day before THE ELECTION which definitely could have influenced people.
BBC News has also given a platform for people like Nigel Farrage and Lawrence Fox. Like Nigel Farage has never been elected to an office in this country and had some of the highest coverage of a political figure in the last ten years. How is the BBC woke?
The cambridge dictionary defines the term "woke" as:
aware, especially of social problems such as racism and inequality:
She urged young black people to stay woke.
disapproving He said that many of these so-called woke individuals never actually engage with the marginalized groups they claim to defend.
Whilst BBC News continues to give voices to people on the right who as a result have become household names. Also to the fact two of the Corporation’s leading politics programmes, the Daily Politics and The Sunday Politics, were both presented by Andrew Neil, who has also served as the Chairman of right of centre magazine, The Spectator.
To end with:
Other research has suggested that the BBC’s output may be weighted in favour of the right. Although over a decade old, a previous study by Cardiff University found the ratio of right-wing, establishment coverage to be significantly greater than left-wing viewpoints in both 2007 and 2012. Across both periods, Conservative politicians were featured around 50% more often than Labour politicians on the weekday bulletin BBC News at Six.
To summarise is the BBC bias to the left and "woke" in terms of its television output= I can see how people may think that myself with some of its entertainment and documentary output.
But the BBC News I would say definitely leans slightly to the right with Laura Kussenberg on board. Lets remember the infamous Jeremy Corbyn superimposed into Moscow with a russian hat on. Thats forgotten....imagine if the BBC had superimposed david cameron with a pig.
So can we stop just labelling bbc news as "woke" without giving some indication as to why you think the bbc is "woke". It just becomes a sort of strange chant now for anything people dont like "its too woke..." "its woke...." "wokkkkeeee" its almost like people are zombies. I could accuse people who say everything is woke are snowflakes but thankfully i don't get my latest buzz words to use in conversation from the dailymail! Its just lazy!
Feel free to criticise the BBC News but at least give rational behind it rather than parroting "its woke" without giving any facts or evidence. Myself i'm looking forward to the lollage GB News will bring as it'll be like a slow moving car wreck but I'll always switch to BBC News for the sudden death of elder statesmen and the outrage of the wrong colour ties reverting to the polar opposite of "too much coverage" for phil.