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Grenville Yeo's avatar

The BBC's reporting on Israel and Gaza in particular has been very troubling and the reasons behind this you have set out so well. I guess that if all their on-site journalists had described the truth to us all, then there would be no BBC journalists left on the ground there. However, the handling of information within the newsroom in England is not so easy to accept.

However, to make wholesale criticism and take action against the BBC solves nothing and also misses the main point which Jonathan Pie illustrated so well in his tirade this week. That the BBC is owned by us all means it is held to account and distinguishes it from almost all other media outlets in the UK which are owned by private individuals or companies who have a vested interest in what news is told.

Apart from the news, the complete range of broadcasting it offers is outstanding and the envy of so many abroad. The £170 annual licence fee is the best value imaginable for what it offers across its channels - and without adverts interrupting the programme.

Jaz's avatar

I am so glad that I cancelled my BiBi C TV Licence 10 years ago when they blocked and smeared ALL my Palestinian Activists friends and never looked back even after numerous threatening letters over the year. I kept telling them I cannot identify myself with a Zionist, Biased, lying entity like BiBi C because in Africa we grow up with the Palestinians cause, we read the history of Jews and we know the real history very well not the fake propaganda that the West brainwash the Westerners with. The same thing with Gates of Hell who they kept telling us he’s helping Africa, when we knew that he never did, he was just experimenting his killer jabs in our villages since early 70’s. I used to tell my Western friends all this but they just laughed at me and some blocked me. Little did they knew that Truth Always Prevails and What has been happening to us and to the Palestinians from colonisation, starvation, bombings, invasions, kidnappings, the control and the poisoning of food, water and skies is coming home to roost; especially in Uk, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. It’s happening now or since Convid.

Evelyn K. Brunswick's avatar

I had another thought about the resignations - surely it should be the tech guys who also resign, given they must've manually, consciously, and deliberately created the edit. That takes intention, that does (same as so many other instances, like Orgreave, or playing the wrong clip of Corbyn, or Boris Johnson, and so on and so on).

The tech guys especially are the banality of evil ones. We should be told about them.

I wouldn't be surprised if the senior people who resigned 'gave the orders' but the tech people followed them in the implicit understanding that 'only following orders' is perfectly fine in the BBC.

Richard Wilding's avatar

The BBC is now surplus to requirements. Who needs a state-owned broadcaster in a corporate-owned state? (And do 'corporate lords', thinking DARK ENLIGHTENMENT, even need the state?)...

'BBC BIAS' MEMO WAS AUTHORED BY LOBBYIST TIED TO PRO-TRUMP TECH GIANTS

'The leaked memo that fuelled Trump’s attack on the BBC was written by a lobbyist at a firm paid by US tech giants tied to the President

'by Nafeez Ahmed

'11 November 2025

'The author of the leaked ‘BBC bias’ memo, seized on by President DONALD TRUMP to threaten a billion-dollar lawsuit against the broadcaster, is a right-wing lobbyist whose firm is being paid hundreds of thousands of dollars by US tech and media giants with close ties to Trump, to whom they have donated millions...

'...The lobbyist, MICHAEL PRESCOTT, was reportedly appointed to the BBC advisory position under the influence of BBC Board member Sir ROBBIE GIBB, a co-founder and early fundraiser of the pro-Trump TV news station GB News co-owned by hedge fund multimillionaire PAUL MARSHALL. Earlier this year, Marshall called for the BBC to be dismantled...'

From BYLINE TIMES (bylinetimes.com)

Richard Wilding's avatar

See also...

'PROJECT 2029 POSES A REAL THREAT TO OUR DEMOCRACY: WE MUST ACT2029

'by Tom Brake

[Published today 13/11/25]

'The UK is waking up to the reality that the UK is also vulnerable to the equivalent of the US’s Project 2025.

'... the UK is also vulnerable to the equivalent of the US’s PROJECT 2025: the HERITAGE FOUNDATION's blueprint for the TRUMP ADMINISTRATION...Key elements of PROJECT 2029 are starting to fall into place...a new think tank, originally named RESOLUTE 1850, has been set up with £1million in funding pledged. This MAGA-STYLE think tank will drive Project 2029. Its stated mission inter alia is to ‘foster stronger transatlantic relationships’. Unless it is going to be more open about its sources of funding than its likely stablemates, the ASI, the IEA, the TAXPAYER’S ALLIANCE and POLICY EXCHANGE, there will be little or no transparency over how much of its funding comes from abroad and the agenda of its donors....

From LEFT FOOT FORWARD (leftfootforward.org)

Jo Waller's avatar

We saw with the 'covid' debacle that the bbc is merely the mouth piece of the government who were merely the mouth piece of big pharma. We see how they also never highlight the climate crisis being controlled by big fossil fuels. The BBC can't be in a death loop or go under because they're supported by the establishment interests in Washington. This hoo haa about Trump is distraction- the BBC is not left wing- it's fully a vassal of the US billionaires and has been for decades.

salahuddin c's avatar

Time for the BBC to end all news coverage. It's credibility for impartiality has been totally crashed over the bogus Corbyn and Labour anti semitism furore and even more over its coverage of the Palestine issue for more than 70 years culminating in its perverse and toxic coverage of Genocide.

I suggest the BBC becomes a producer of entertainment programmes for radio, online and TV, which would be funded by and accessed through voluntary public subscription. There would be no news content at all. Thus it would become the The British Entertainment Enterprise or BEE.

Ben Oldfield's avatar

I stopped watching BBC news some 15 years ago because I spent too much time shouting at the biased reporting and the last straw was when I had to stop myself from throwing a book at the TV set. I treasure my books and never want to damage them.

Teresa Pursall's avatar

Trump was presumably unaware of this Panorama editing until it was brought to everyone’s attention and it certainly didn’t affect his political prospects. The “antisemitism” Panorama on the other hand, went some way to contribute to Corbyn’s loss at the election, as I know from talking to people on the doorstep. At one time the BBC was strongly defended by people like me, but they’ve lost any loyalty they once had. I’m happy now to see them go under.

Rod Dawson's avatar

Imagine if Islamophobia and antisemitism were greeted with anything like the same degrees of horror. Every atrocity ever committed by any Muslim, no matter how deranged, is always promoted as vigorously as possible to smear Islam, promote fear of it, and make all Muslims seem like shifty religitard nutjobs. Whereas Israelis, who openly believe they are the chosen of some superstitious god, and thus enjoy some supernatural divine right to rape, commit genocide, torture, thieve land and commit genocide - their experts in religitard claptrap are widely documented saying so - are apparently actively supported in their discriminatory and supremacist belief even at the highest levels of Western government. An evil of all religions is their tendency to make followers think they are 'better' - by being more beloved of their god - than everyone else. To support Israel is to support the notion that religions give followers more rights than others. It is deeply unfair that such stupidity should always be amplified in one religion, and always ignored in any other.

Stephen McKenna's avatar

'The BBC is set to pay out major damages to an American man who they say launched a frenzied attack on the US constitution while wielding a bible in his right hand.

In a statement issued by the Corporation, a spokesperson said, the BBC apologises unreservedly for the inaccuracy of its reportage and will refer itself to OFCOM for investigation.

Commenting on the incident, the broadcasting pressure group, 'Strictly BBC - An Impartial BBC' said ... 'This is just what we've come to expect of the lying BBC. Everybody knows he wielded the bible in his left hand'.

Kojo's avatar
Nov 13Edited

The BBC have been despicable peddlers of the worst and most harmful propaganda, so they desrve no sympathy here. That said, I dont think they are really the ultimate target here.

I suspect that this attack on the BBC is more akin to the day when in the midsts of the steady steam of Snowden revelations the GHQC came calling and bashed in the Guardian's computers in

https://theintercept.com/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-guardians-laptops-revealed-intended/

That was a siesmic event and a turning point. From then on not only did the Guardian fall in line will every word of imperial propaganda, but also so did all the rest of the major media.

In the same vein this is intended to silence all media critique of the fascist regime, including critque about that regime implemented INSIDE Europe, and to silence even critique of blatant and gross abuses of people's rights and the dismanting of even the appearance of democracy IN Europe. So now when people are abused on command of the masters, the media is going to stay silent. Because if the BBC can be hammered. wich major media in Europe cannot? None.

And in other news this week Von der Sellout is also doing what her masters across the pond have told her, which is to begin laying the foundation for the regime of mass oppression being implemented there. First step is a pan-European regime of mass surveilance of European people.

John Isaacs-Young's avatar

The billionaire class of course, are not bound by loyalty or obligation to 'right' or 'left'.

John Woodford's avatar

Keep on truckin'!!!!!!!

Joseph Ryan's avatar

We all know what happened. An old Panorama report was seized on by Israel to nobble the BBC, and intimidate journalists further. And Trump was played like a piano.

Drop Site and Owen Jones getting sued cannot be divorced from the 'Panorama' coup.

The Rabid Right in the UK immediately jumped on board.

There is no AIPAC in the UK; but there is Labour Friends of Israel, Conservative Friends of Israel, UK lawyers for Israel, the Telegraph- MI5 sub-office, and of course MI5 itself, the entire 'UK' defence forces and defence industry etc etc.

The UK should declare itself the 51st State of an Israeli-controlled America.

Les Johnston's avatar

The handiwork of Mossad aligns with the signatures of BBC "documentaries."

Richard Wilding's avatar

It would be quite a coup (yes, another coup) for an ISRAELI ASSET (a MOSSAD asset, even) to be installed as the BBC MIDDLE EAST EDITOR.

But that is unthinkable.

'BBC MIDDLE EAST EDITOR AT CENTRE OF 'BIAS' ROW SAID MOSSAD MADE HIM 'PROUD'

Raffi Berg is suing journalist Owen Jones over a story in which BBC sources accused him of pro-Israel bias

By Imran Mulla

Published date: 10 November 2025 15:31 GMT

The BBC's online Middle East editor said in 2020 that it was "wonderful" to be in a "circle of trust" with current and former Mossad agents while writing a book, and that the agency's "fantastic operations" make him "tremendously proud".

The comments made by RAFFI BERG have surfaced following the revelation last week that he is suing prominent journalist OWEN JONES over an article alleging Berg is biased towards Israel...'

From MEE (middleeasteye.net)