The BBC. Wow, where to begin? Let's start with what they're supposed to be: a chartered public services broadcaster, directed to be impartial (joke!) and provide programming for "everybody" (another joke!) The reality: throughout all of their programming, be it drama, magazine shows, the news, or factual documentaries - there is a narrative that runs through it all - it's smug, virtue signalling, superior liberal/left inspired brainwashing. Currently, I can't watch a single programme (I'll come to the 'news' later) without it having to have an obvious and overworked sprinkling of some minority group, or other. I've actually got nothing against minorities, but their inclusion must be fair, relevant and proportionate and not just because it suits a very biased political agenda. However, our gloriously 'impartial' BBC is 'shoehorning' them in at every perceived opportunity. I'm old-fashioned, I believe if you're going to pick someone for a fairly high-profile 'anchor' job they should be the best person for the job - the BBC with it's policy of 'positive discrimination' (yeah, that's really 'impartial!') is populating many of it's programmes with a far greater percentage of the BAME ethnicities than is proportionately representative of our country - especially when you break it down to ethnic groups; Asians - by far and away the biggest minority group at about 8% of the UK population, are woefully under-represented on the BBC, but Afro-Caribbeans have a massive current presence and an increasing one in more recent programming. Bearing in mind they only represent around 3% - there is nothing 'fair' about this, it's a skewed political decision. In BBC historical drama programmes, traditional characters ethnicities are altered to be inclusive - I find this particularly ugly & patronising. And, if I was from a BAME group I would feel angry at the crass and graceless 'tokenism' of it all. Now 'The News - I used to trust the 'Beeb' implicitly up until about 15 years ago, but now I check all of the other channels' news programmes to see their slant on things and catch up on all of the other (sometimes quite important) stories the BBC contrive to either miss, or politically edit out. Have you ever noticed how the BBC journalists actually have an opinion (once again no impartiality here!) - it's clever and subtle - but it's there. They start from the self-imposed (BBC style) moral high-ground position if they (or generally, the BBC) are opposed to the person/story-line/country they are interviewing, but when they are in favour of a person/story-line/country they pave the way with sympathetic leading questions (with a saccharine smile) and extended airtime. The featured news stories also have a bias to the core beliefs of the news editorial teams (look what they did to Cliff Richard). Then there is, 'Team America' - the BBC USA is funded by producing programmes for the American taste - and it is big business, I believe this also affects BBC's 'impartiality' - it would be financial suicide to produce news feeds caustically critical of the USA government in the way that they do of Russia, China and even a couple of EC countries. If all of this wasn't enough, I am forced to pay a ridiculous amount every year for a channel I use only very occasionally, because frankly, they produce few programmes I'd like to watch. I want to be enlightened & entertained - not preached at and brainwashed, while they are stealing my money!
