I agree with this and I don’t think this bot adds any value given that it’s so damn biased itself. I would love to consume more left wing mass media, but from a Western European perspective sadly something like that barely exists. I also wouldn’t call The Guardian Centre-left like MBFC but rather centrist, as they are imo balancing the sides for as much as anyone can, but they are not my idea of a leftwing media outlet.
The UK’s own Overtoon Window is much more to the Right than the rest of Europe (at least in my experience living in a couple of countries) and the only real Left-of-Center news media they have there is the Private Eye, which is actually a satirical magazine.
From my own point of view as somebody who has lived in both Southern and Northern Europe as well as the UK, the BBC is at best Center-Right, probably reflecting the control by the upper echelons of British society (the kind of people who frequented £30k a year private schools as children) of both its Board and its Editorial layer.
Don’t get me wrong, they make great programs. It’s just that their news programs are shaped to push certain perspectives and suppress certain views - normally by pushing a two-sides falacy and making sure both sides are from the Right. For example, during the political campaign to oust Corbyn - who was an actual leftie rather than a neoliberal from the New-Labour faction - from leader of the Labour Party, the BBC helped spread the anti-semitism slander and at one point even had a photoshopped picture of him with a russian-army cap used as background in a news show.
The TV channel closest to unbiased in terms of news over there is ITV, not BBC.
I agree with this and I don’t think this bot adds any value given that it’s so damn biased itself. I would love to consume more left wing mass media, but from a Western European perspective sadly something like that barely exists. I also wouldn’t call The Guardian Centre-left like MBFC but rather centrist, as they are imo balancing the sides for as much as anyone can, but they are not my idea of a leftwing media outlet.
The UK’s own Overtoon Window is much more to the Right than the rest of Europe (at least in my experience living in a couple of countries) and the only real Left-of-Center news media they have there is the Private Eye, which is actually a satirical magazine.
From my own point of view as somebody who has lived in both Southern and Northern Europe as well as the UK, the BBC is at best Center-Right, probably reflecting the control by the upper echelons of British society (the kind of people who frequented £30k a year private schools as children) of both its Board and its Editorial layer.
Don’t get me wrong, they make great programs. It’s just that their news programs are shaped to push certain perspectives and suppress certain views - normally by pushing a two-sides falacy and making sure both sides are from the Right. For example, during the political campaign to oust Corbyn - who was an actual leftie rather than a neoliberal from the New-Labour faction - from leader of the Labour Party, the BBC helped spread the anti-semitism slander and at one point even had a photoshopped picture of him with a russian-army cap used as background in a news show.
The TV channel closest to unbiased in terms of news over there is ITV, not BBC.