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BBC astonishes the world with a proper headline
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this post was submitted on 26 Feb 2026
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People on Lemmy complain the BBC is too right wing, the right wingers I know complain it's too left wing. Maybe it actually is doing something right at being 'central'.
it's defining the boundaries between right and left for you to make sure that you only look at it from that perspective.
if you use a class perspective, you would see that they're doing whatever makes them profit and part of that is making sure that they have your attention.
I'm all for bashing the BBC, but profit? They're publicly funded
Publicly funded arm of a government in tow to the capitalist class = our tax pays for their propaganda
not entirely and not for long.
What's this a reference to? Is the BBC allowed to take outside funding?
not entirely means that over a third of its revenues comes from private/commercial sources.
not for long means that their public funding is going to end in 2027 and that's when a majority of their revenue will switch to private/commercial sources and they will become like any other form of legacy media.
Its very much not. Think about it in terms of class, not political ideology. The BBC, and every other mass media platform, is for the elite. Sometimes the elite like policies the left likes because it makes them money. Sometimes the elite like policies the right like because it makes them money. It will NEVER be for the other 95% of the populace
"Being a bit pro-genocide is good because it pisses off the lefties"
The enlightened centrist position of manufacturing consent for the genocide of trans people and other fascist policy
Compared to what, The Telegraph?
The news is right, the comedy is left
I don't see it as a left vs right bias, it's a pro-establishment one which does tend to benefit the right more often.