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we go over live to Lisa Nandy to ask for comment on the disproportionate and craven coverage of Reform

Perhaps because the BBC likes backing losers?? 🤔

Ratings? ££££££££? (They M A D E Farage in the first place with their/his incessant Brexit bitchery coverage)

Let do our bit - complain to the BBC

The BBC board is full of far right lunatics??? Does newsnight care to report on this endless coverage of Farage?? A self assessment needed @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Robbie Gibb definitely is

The BBC makes me laugh. All this free publicity to a party that actively want to defund it!

Meh, subscription model for the Beeb. If it’s that fantastic people will pay 🤷🏻‍♀️

Who is on the editorial team today.

Reform are facing legal jeopardies. Their polling is tanking. Who is being paid off to direct that these non-issues are covered by #BBCNews?

yep. the bias was so obvious and Farage got so used to it..he got a bit of a shock when he tried the same anti EU patter on Irish tv, in front of a professional journalist.👇 bsky.app/profile/gyle...

The BBC has gone as a reliable, impartial news source. Shame on them!

Reform's support was shown to be bolstered by bots, and the BBC used that 'support' as justification for platforming Reform over and above the Lib Dems and Greens who had more MPs. It seems they have learned nothing, or we were being told a load of guff.

I have no idea why they can keep justifying giving Farage all the coverage. He's a busted flush mired in controversy and investigations against him.

Send a complaint via this link and choose "General BBC", which gives you "bias" as one of the options to choose from. It takes less than 5 minutes www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

I wouldn't know, I haven't watched them for seven years and I don't pay my license How about you Adam?

We’re waiting for journalists and OFCOM to answer that exact question

As an editorial decision, promoting a particular political party like this on our public broadcaster should be a sackable offence. If it's not a sackable offence, then it's a failure of governance and that failure of governance should itself be a sackable offence.

Desperation?

Maybe it's Chris Masons birthday?

Because of Robbie Gibb, presumably

Farage and Tice know that after the budget speech they won't get a look-in. That explains why they have 'responded' two days before the event. But it does not explain why the BBC gave them airtime.

Robbie Gibb (BBC board, GB News & Russian asset) doing his job promoting far right views.

They'll cobble some excuse. Their bosses basically get off on him.

www.bbc.co.uk/contact/comp...

Done! Took less than 5 minutes

Done

a very good question

How else will they get back into first?

I dont understand the question. Reform in trouble, BBC to the rescue.

Same reason the US networks have had coverage of every single thing Trump has done for the last ten years. Buffoons get eyeballs.

Who RUNS the BBC?

Surely we know that the BBC is the mouthpiece of the Epstein Class? They're worried about all the approaching upheaval and they've decided that Authoritarian/Fascist government best serves their purpose. They are few, we are many.

When it comes to their favourites, like Farage and his minions, or "Elon", the BBC behaves less like an established, objective news organisation and more like a gushing, paid-for influencer.

None at all! The case for doing so was always weak in my opinion…

The Beeb news isn't going to win back viewers from GBeebies they're too far gone, brainwashed & twisted that they believe the mainstream media is lefty propaganda. This is what I was told by my in-law.

Labour Party has no intention of affecting the BBC's pro Israel agenda They conspire against us every day Farage is a useful tool for them to keep the lslamophobic message foremost Labour Party and Reform are the same people @miketapp.bsky.social

Absolutely. Johnson filled it with brexity loons and nobody seems interested in putting that right. Should have been done on day one of a Labour government.

Exactly 🤔

I try to avoid watching BBC "News" as we all know that they've lost any credibility when it comes to being impartial. Johnson's super-soft questioning leading up to the 2019 election was nonsensical. Now, the most unpopular leader is getting the equivalent of Trump/Fox "news" treatment 😒

WHY? Occam's Razor.

They have a duty to maintain proper balance. Reform has no talent, no viable policies and no credibility. How are they supposed to balance that other through saturation coverage?

Cheap tv hours for the BBC.🤷🏻‍♀️

??? Perhaps the decision makers at the BBC think that fermenting Ignorance and racist chaos will bring them some kind of opportunity or personal reward? A less educated, uninformed population is easier to control? It’s quite unfathomable.

Kickbacks?

They were represented on PoliticsLive at lunchtime too. There is absolutely no justification for the BBC doing this while totally ignoring Greens and LibDems. I think even Restore is reported on more than the LibDems

Farage on #BBCReform this morning.

New BBC D.G. wants sacking and so does who appointed him.n I don't believe their was not U.S. powerful forces heavily influenced his appointment.

Quite outrageous.

It's hard to disagree.

But it was Derbyshire who had this guy on Newsnight:⬇️ "On the day after the news of Burnham’s pronouncement on Russian interference in Brexit broke, it opted to invite 'Former Putin spokesperson Sergei Markov' to throw light on the subject." broligarchy.substack.com/p/the-dark-t...

Honestly not sure what the BBC's justification was back when they looked like a frighteningly-serious contender for the next GE, really. Farage transparently deliberately timing announcements and speeches to interrupt important political events should never have been rewarded.

It’s ridiculous the amount of media attention they get. I was watching the news when Farage came on so I had to switch channel as I cannot stand the man.

I give up!

Brazil have moved on Bolsonaro’s son. He is corrupt also. This is what the UK should be doing. And adjust the requirements for office. Having an entertainment slot and neglecting the day job as example - this is the Westminster stuff to clamp down on.

Explain yourselves @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social

Probably for a very similar reason as to why they kept employing Jimmy Savile.

Time to treat the cost of BBC news as Reform campaign expenditure.

Powerful wealthy malign actors threaten their existence and ours if they don't.

Me too!!

Maybe they are attempting to show blatant pro-right wing bias as part of their defence against Trump's legal action?

WTF… isn’t BBC publicly funded company? And isn’t the public doesn’t really like these fuckers much these days?

My guess is that they are now in an earnings bracket that could do with a tax cut.

BBC wants a Reform government. That’s why.

That's not a BBC account and it's completely empty anyway. The only official account on here which is near to BBC News is @bbcnewsnight.bsky.social.

There isn’t one and there never was one

They also had Tice giving Reform's Budget rant on R4 Today but made no mention of hearing from the other parties with more MPs. There are more independents than Reform MPs.

Have you read this, more so the part about the BBCs guest to speak about our current PMs talk about Brexit/Russia bsky.app/profile/caro...

I wish the senior Journalists at The Guardian would stomach that question but I feel they don’t want to lose their contacts @pippacrerar.bsky.social @peterwalker99.bsky.social

Many of us ask what is the justification for the BBC?

No experience of national governing (unless you include the Tory turncoats with a track record of failure) and a hopeless squad of local authority councillors getting smaller every day as their crimes & misdemeanors are exposed. Give me strength!

Either the staff of the BBCNews are all fascists, or they all snivelling cowards being bullied into delivering this Reform propaganda by the BBCNews board which is demonstrably controlled by far right place men.

Pontificating on a budget no-one has actually seen yet. 🤷🏼‍♂️

Don't worry… the #PaperStabVest, Lisa Nandy, will be on the case tout de suite… unless she's still hibernating.

Laura Kuenssberg had her regular Deform representative on her show again yesterday 🙄

Absolutely agree but maybe their plan has backfired and is actively making people hate him even more.

Fun Fact. Reform have less MPs that were elected as Reform MPs than the Greens have

As soon as I see anyone linked to Reform making an appearance on BBC News/QT/Kuenssberg etc, etc I immediately have to switch off. These goons are a damaging to our democracy and society as a whole. They should be treated as a national security threat that is intent on stoking up hate and division.

In Scotland we are subjected to non-stop criticism of the Scot Gov using misleading and biased reporting Everything is the SNP's fault according to them The reality is Scotland is well ahead of rUK on many metrics like the NHS, child poverty and other factors but they'll never report that

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Kemi Badenoch must be spitting tacks.

The audience behind him reminds me of a Trump rally - no doubt where he got the idea from. (And do none his supporters have jobs to go to?)

The DG and board need to be changed, they need to be non political, this is getting ridiculous ! The LibDens should be making a huge noise about it as they have more seats !

Back on Today again this morning - smug and utterly vile as usual.

Next year the BBC Charter gets renewed. It has been in review for a while now.

This was on the dedicated BBCNews channel which has 68,000 viewers a day. I can only imagine a few thousands people would have watched that feed.

Exactly

Perhaps the BBC is in the pocket of Reform donors?

That is the justification - only explanation? They’re in third and they “should be in first”…

They (R4 Today) had Tice on this morning, waffling about some theoretical Reform budget which will never see the light of day.

We do not want to hear from temu dump thank you

It doesn’t need one. It was infiltrated years ago.

Agreed, this was complete tripe today. Everyone should contact the BBC and say we don’t pay our license fee to listen to that whiny old bastard promoting himself by lying and making everyone else miserable. Stop it! let’s have some real world balance, not just this crap that’s pumped out by reform

Its utterly disgusting. Complain, as the more we do the more they habve to respond.

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Empty hall too: bsky.app/profile/paro...

Quite.

This is how Trump became president. As an ex-journalist, let me admit that journalists like covering the Trumps and Farages. They make good copy. But it is bad for our society and bad for our democracy.

Easy! Their position is it should be second place and then first. The BBC is run by a Google guy. Ask yourself if you trust YouTube ads and then have a sensible conversation about the BBC (you can't)

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And then they tell you it's fair and impartial reporting 😂, no, no BBC it isn't, it's blatant propaganda.

You assume wrong. Lib Dem events get nowhere near this level of coverage on the BBC

Farage gave a view on the budget, when the budget hadn't actually been revealed. That's not News. That's Farage jumping up and down saying "Look at me! Look at me!" And the BBC giving him the airspace to do it. Did they ever do the same for Ed Davey, or Zack Polanski, or even Kemi Badenoch? No.

They’ve learned nothing

The only "person" given more air time by the BBC is Trump himself usually live and usually on the pretext of some particular topic of interest but ofc we are forced to listen to the same despicable ramblings that have been rammed down our throats on multiple occasions already.

A Handy from Nandy.

There is, of course, no justification!