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Originally Posted by j.sabourn

. Our own ABC is quite often accused of prejudice and think more than likely the BBC has the same fingers pointed at them. The BBC and ABC and any other National News agency seem to have lost their Impartiability, this is probably considered old fashioned now. Cheers John S

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Quite agree that BBC (and others) seems to have lost its impartiality, and this is obvious to the majority, I am neither commending or condoning their news reporting, as we are all now too well aware that with modern communication methods everything is transparent and very little can be hidden, and it is up to ourselves to separate the wheat from the chafe, which we older generation can do from our own inbuilt wisdom of passing years no matter which news channel or media we use. This is something that politicians seem to forget when they are preaching from their ivory towers. Agree with John P that too much airtime is given to preachers of hate, but we are told it is in the interests of fairness and equality, unfortunately preachers of hate do not recognise equality but the liberal establishment has long been blinkered, thus it will forever remain, it makes the world go round whether we like it or not. Again my advice is when on holiday forget the news, unless it affects your flight home, and enjoy your surroundings. We in Europe live in a smouldering cauldron of discontent, but the Antipodes on the other hand although in somewhat isolation from it may have to learn Chinese as their national language in the not too distant future, as was what once called the 'paper tiger' springs forward from its lair, we'll probably read about Antipodean news then on our channel, better start reading up on those sayings of Confucious

Confucious say... Woman pilot who fly upside down will have crack up. Confucious also say... Rape impossible, woman with skirt up can run faster than man with pants down. I'm already for the Chinese got my book of mandarin, and will have another look for the Thoughts of Mao.. Cheers JS.

Some of the BBCs presenters seem t have their own agendas that they work too , and they push minority views on the rest of us , Chris Packham being one of the worst , he has been reprimanded more than once for some of his statements , but they all seem to be politically biased , I used to believe that the BBC told the truth , now they tell the truth as the producer / director sees it

I still believe that the BBC is a bit above the rest, they do some very good documentaries , and the BBC world service is very well respected, it has not got the concrete information it used to have, and has been hit by scandal in recent years, which means that we are suffering from corruption here, much the same as the rest of the world, however on my faorly recent visit to Oz and NZ i found the TV terrible to watch, but fortunately had my laptop and the internet with me KT

Not that I live in the UK as all know,but I must say that the BBC has to me always been the best News Station for many many Years!
I recall in the 1940,s my late Dad always had the BBC on ,and I followed suit afterwards!
Never missed one day of news in those days,was like a drug so to speak.
The old Radios with the various Long and Shortwave ,one could in South Africa tune in very clearly .
The opening was always the best! With them saying this is the BBC London ETC!
Great
Don't know if this post is about the Radio,or TV! ??

Thought the one with Stephen Fry doing a world tour of all the Gays and Lesbians very good. Wonder how many youngsters that pushed over the line. Cheers John S.

#15... Used to be a Merchant Navy programme as well Vernon. Remember that one. Wasn't any choice but the BBC in 1940 although might of had BBC2 and Luxembourg shortly after the war. Cheers John S.

Yes JS
That Radio Luxemburg was also really good,used to listen to that a lot as well .but as you say that was a wee bit later!
Cheers

Radio Lux was always a sign you were nearing home, as you approached uk it became clearer, prelude to the channels KT

the bbc spends too much time on sport. they have at least two spare channels, why can't they use one for sport instead of using both bbc1 and bbc2 at the same time for the same events?. they also do a lot of advertising on all channels I know they have to compete but I think they should only be allowed to advertise the channel they are on, not on their other channels, and definatly not radio. i believe the original charter was no adverts, so they could charge for the licence.