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James Ball
@jamesrball.com

This is absolute rookie stuff. There is just absolutely no way that a headline like this should ever make the BBC News website. It being the weekend is no excuse, either: political news *always* drops on Saturday night, for the Sunday papers.

Will Jennings📉🗳️@drjennings.bsky.social

Would it now?

James Ball
@jamesrball.com

Obviously I'm part of this industry. But I don't run the BBC. And I call it out while working in it. What else should I be doing?

eoinmonkey.bsky.social
@eoinmonkey.bsky.social

I dunno, every time I see your stuff being shared its the most pathetic milquetoast centrist drivel- i assume you have bills to pay like the rest of us, but do you at least feel some shame about this whole pathetic sham? Are you allowed to say? Blink twice for yes

James Ball
@jamesrball.com

Want to point me to one of those stories? Because I get this accusation a lot and usually people don't follow up with specifics. Where's the recent story that fits that?

Shadow Home Secretary
@missfairhurst.bsky.social

In my experience, accusations of something being "milquetoast" are nearly always milquetoast in themselves, with the person using the term seldom backing it up with actual evidence. It has to be the weakest way of calling something out for supposedly being weak. One of the ironies of life!

eoinmonkey.bsky.social
@eoinmonkey.bsky.social

You could write the above post up into an article about how we just dont know why the BBC would boost Reform, again, in what political experts are calling "a totally baffling error nobody could possibly have foreseen and definitely not a pattern of clear ideological bias". I bet it'd sell.

eoinmonkey.bsky.social
@eoinmonkey.bsky.social

I mean, for example, you are making a big deal about what amateurs posted this pro Reform propaganda on the BBC like you honestly believe its an accident, a fluke, a flaw, but you know its not- when do you call it out?

CNG Light
@cnglight.bsky.social

Whilst I understand, and to some extent sympathise with, the lack of trust in journalism in the UK, I am curious on your apparent belief that *all* members of a profession are inherently "in it together". Do you go around interrogating all doctors on the occasion that a surgeon screws up?