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And you know thousands of people? In London?
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#2122 11 Feb 2021 at 11.35pm | | | |
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Many of the BBC staff based in London are white middle class left wingers who live in London.
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#2121 11 Feb 2021 at 11.21pm | | | |
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What's that got do with BBC staff? 
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#2120 11 Feb 2021 at 11.18pm | | | |
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I'm saying the opposite. It's Deffo not a lefty Organisation?
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#2119 11 Feb 2021 at 11.13pm | | | |
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I find channel 5 utterly pointless to be honest tinhead....
Once you seen one 'when neighbours attack' compilation you've seen them all...
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#2118 11 Feb 2021 at 10.47pm | | | |
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#2117 11 Feb 2021 at 10.35pm | | | |
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In reply to Post #2116
They? 
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#2116 11 Feb 2021 at 8.33pm | | | |
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Lots of white middle class left wingers in London, Islington being an example, other boroughs that they buy into and turn trendy, the residents of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods nearby to me are another example.
Does anyone find Channel 5 left wing?
Edit
The people described above are the sort that work for the BBC, wouldn't last 5 minutes in a proper job. 
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#2115 11 Feb 2021 at 8.29pm | | | |
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Did you mean infamous Jon 
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#2114 11 Feb 2021 at 8.24pm | | | |
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News with an agenda isn't news. So if you disagree with the way an event is reported, or wether it even happened :- there's an agenda. I find ITV and BBC do a decent job of impartiality, both models can and do work well alongside each other. If you believe the BBC is leftist it's you that's out of kilter.
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#2113 11 Feb 2021 at 7.30pm | | | |
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BBC lefty leaning? Pffft. It's an overwhelmingly white, male middle class institution and is, in no way, a bed of left wing political activism. Look at the new chairman FFS. £400, 000 of donations to the Cunservatives. It's a myth propagated by the tories and the right to monetise it. They hate anything they struggle to privatise and monetise.
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#2112 11 Feb 2021 at 5.50pm | | | |
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I find it difficult to understand how this new Fox News style TV channel is being so eagerly welcomed by so many.
It would seem that, despite the print media being so overwhelmingly right-leaning and there being no shortage of right wing opinions on line, on the radio and telly, many feel they are oppressed by lefty BBC types who stifle such views. The BBC seem pretty well balanced most of the time, even if they do give more weight than is due to idiots sometimes. 99% of climate scientists vs Piers Corbyn? Really? And let's not forget it was QT that made Farage famous.
Where did this right wing victim mentality come from? It caused Brexit, and now it's set to drag the country even further to the right with a mainstream TV channel.
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#2111 11 Feb 2021 at 5.44pm | | | |
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I’m not really talking about giving equal status to both sides of a face to face debate, although unless it’s something clearly bonkers such as your flat earth example, it’s fair to at least hear both arguments
I mean choosing a report which interests you for whatever reason and looking into conflicting opinions through different outlets. Where the other side generally have no means of immediate or direct response.
Somebody charming and articulate can make a good case for most things even if it’s total cobblers.
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#2110 11 Feb 2021 at 5.41pm | | | |
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But interpretation isn't just about choice. It's about knowledge and understanding as well. I could use a brexit related example, (he-he) but I don't want your head to explode, so I'll use my work as an example of this
I work in child protection. Anyone remember Sarah's Law, after she was murdered by the paedophile Roy Whiting? Common sense says yes it's a good idea that we should be told where paedophiles live so that kids can be kept safe.
I know through my work the majority of kids are sexually abused and then murdered by someone in the family or close to the family. Very few are abducted and then abused/murdered. Also, while a paedophile is a sex offender, not all sex offenders are paedophiles. The majority of them abuse kids while in intimate adult relationships.
So, we all get obsessed about the weirdo in the block of flats across the road but don't look and think about relatives and friends around us and don't consider them as potential risks to our kids. And that's not even looking at child on child abuse within families.
So yes, interpretation is a part of how we see, think and feel about the world, but the greater knowledge and understanding you have of something, it helps inform how we interpret those events.
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#2109 11 Feb 2021 at 5.27pm | | | |
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I know why you mean mate.You have to platform different views though to see how they hold up to scrutiny. Baldwin v Buckley being the best example I can think of, bravely organised and put on in this country.
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