BBC Watch: election bias special.

[BlodwynPig]

This clip of Laura K laughing at a bit of Boris bants:

https://mobile.twitter.com/skiologist/status/1199936401363611648

I've had wives I've looked at with less love in my eyes.

_{never actually been married}

I just can't... ROOT AND FUCKING BRANCH

[Schmo Diddley]

Trying to suppress the youth vote on their social medias. Absolutely fucking staggering.

https://twitter.com/patttten/status/1199815231180066818?s=12

[Paul Calf]

It'll backfire.

They're fucking idiots.

[BlodwynPig]

It'll backfire.

They're fucking idiots.

Been waiting patiently for over a decade now for this prophecy to come true.

Paul Calf 2030: "it'll backfire, my gulag chief is a fucking idiot...shit he's coming"

[Buelligan]

This clip of Laura K laughing at a bit of Boris bants:

https://mobile.twitter.com/skiologist/status/1199936401363611648

I've had wives I've looked at with less love in my eyes.

_{never actually been married}

Rebarbative.  Did you note the OP (do they call them that on twitter?)?

[Cardenio I]

I did indeed.

[Leo2112]

Trying to suppress the youth vote on their social medias. Absolutely fucking staggering.

https://twitter.com/patttten/status/1199815231180066818?s=12

I don't remember seeing any 'register to vote' adverts by the BBC this year at all.  They used to put out numerous adverts between programmes encouraging this in previous elections.

#bbcimpartiality trending on twitter now with lots of people saying they will cancel their TV license.  Good.

[lipsink]

I don't remember seeing any 'register to vote' adverts by the BBC this year at all.  They used to put out numerous adverts between programmes encouraging this in previous elections.

#bbcimpartiality trending on twitter now with lots of people saying they will cancel their tv license.  Good.

What can they actually do if you cancel your license anyway? The TV detector van was all bollocks wasn't it?

[idunnosomename]

anyone want to meet up at the BBC and piss all over it

[Ferris]

What can they actually do if you cancel your license anyway? The TV detector van was all bollocks wasn't it?

Jack shit, there's a community of people obsessed with not paying it ("I don't watch live television") but also obsessed with not telling the licensing people ("the default assumption should be that I don't need a license, and I don't legally have to tell them if I don't need a license") so they're stuck in limbo getting threatening (but ultimately meaningless) letters once a month for years at a time.

I read through all of these during a particularly bad bout of insomnia about 6 months ago. It is strangely fascinating.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/

[Ferris]

They're in the right, but exchanges like this just make them look like twats.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Please%20do%20not%20write%20below%20the%20line.htm

Here's the obsessive research into detector vans, anyway. Seems like they're a load of shit designed to scare people into paying.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm

[Replies From View]

If the BBC want people to pay their license fee maybe they could explore the option of being less thoroughly shit.

[greencalx]

I think the only way a licence fee protest would work is if millions of people all cancelled at the same time.

That said, I pay mine a year in advance, so it's kind of hard to make a statement that way...

[DrGreggles]

Jack shit, there's a community of people obsessed with not paying it ("I don't watch live television") but also obsessed with not telling the licensing people ("the default assumption should be that I don't need a license, and I don't legally have to tell them if I don't need a license") so they're stuck in limbo getting threatening (but ultimately meaningless) letters once a month for years at a time.

I do actually agree with that bit.

[Cuellar]

Ubi sunt [banned member]

[phantom_power]

They're in the right, but exchanges like this just make them look like twats.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Please%20do%20not%20write%20below%20the%20line.htm

Here's the obsessive research into detector vans, anyway. Seems like they're a load of shit designed to scare people into paying.

http://www.bbctvlicence.com/Detector%20vans.htm

Had no qualms, but I complained anyway

[Famous Mortimer]

I do actually agree with that bit.

But that's not what the default assumption is though, surely? I could say that the default assumption is that (attractive celebrity) wants desperately to see my willy, but it doesn't make it true.

[NoSleep]

But that's not what the default assumption is though, surely?

What is, then?

[NoSleep]

Adding to that; I wrote to them 10 years ago and said I no longer required a TV licence. All they needed to do at that point was accept my statement and assume that I would advise them if my circumstances ever changed. But no, they assume I must be secretly watching tv so they send sharply worded reminders every two years warning me to declare my continuing lack of need of a TV licence.

[BlodwynPig]

During peak Bergerac in the late 80s I slipped the BBC a 1000 pound bung and they have never sent me any tv license letters since

[phantom_power]

Culturally the default would be to have a TV license. Before the internet this would be the case for 99% of households. I don't think enough time has passed for this to not be the assumption. It would be like the default assumption being that you didn't have an electricity supply or phone line. The latter is less likely than before but still expected

[idunnosomename]

It used to be "come on, open up, of course you've got a telly, everyone's got a telly, what're ya a weirdo" hence why they lobbied for the iPlayer to count

[NoSleep]

Culturally the default would be to have a TV license. Before the internet this would be the case for 99% of households. I don't think enough time has passed for this to not be the assumption. It would be like the default assumption being that you didn't have an electricity supply or phone line. The latter is less likely than before but still expected

Why would they reassume I require a TV licence after I have specifically instructed them otherwise? Surely the default is that I am on record as not requiring a TV licence and I am not a criminal?

[DrGreggles]

But that's not what the default assumption is though, surely? I could say that the default assumption is that (attractive celebrity) wants desperately to see my willy, but it doesn't make it true.

The BBC (and the clowns they use to try to sell/collect/threaten the public) seem to be of the opinion that the burden of proof is with the 'customer' to show that they don't need to buy a licence.
This is clearly bullshit, but I wouldn't be surprised if their intimidation tactics paid off a lot of the time.

10 million people could (and should) decide to cancel their TV licence today and there's very little that the BBC could do about it.

[NoSleep]

I don't think boycotting them would change their current bias but it might speed them on to becoming a unambiguously right wing commercial concern.

[DrGreggles]

What's a licence cost these days? £150?
That would mean a sudden deficit of £1,500,000,000.

They wouldn't exist to HAVE a bias!

[BlodwynPig]

What's a licence cost these days? £150?
That would mean a sudden deficit of £1,500,000,000.

They wouldn't exist to HAVE a bias!

YAY

THEY SAID I WAS WRONG...YOU'LL MISS IT WHEN IT'S GONE

HA, THE JOKES ON YOU

BABY PROGRAMMES FOR ADULTS...GONE
RIGHT WING LAUGHING DONKEY JOUNRALISTS...GONE
THE BEIGEST RED SOFA IN THE MORNING...GONE
SQUEEEEE...GONE (ALTHOUGH SHE WAS BRIEFLY A MARXIST SYMPATHISER)
HOMES UNDER THE YAMMER...GONE
DIE PLAYER...GONE
GRIMEZY THE SPUNKY DISC JOCKEY WITH POOR TASTE...GONE
STRICTLY COME DUNCING...GONE

[DrGreggles]

Fuck, I forgot about Pointless...

[Fambo Number Mive]

There are some good/important bits to the BBC.

Panorama has exposed serious abuse of people in "care" homes several times now. Both Panorama and BBC Parliament (which allows us to watch what happens in the House of Commons and House of Lords) are very important for society. Also Rogue Traders and I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue.

Much of the rest of it can do one though. But I do think it is important to have investigate journalism programs that aren't on commerical channels.

[NoSleep]

What's a licence cost these days? £150?
That would mean a sudden deficit of £1,500,000,000.

They wouldn't exist to HAVE a bias!

They could sell advertising time.