Iâm not really criticising the BBC article. Iâm criticising your take on the article:
With your comment, you are detracting from the many valid criticisms of this governmentâs handling of the pandemic by citing a particular outcome of the governmentâs approach, which ignores many of the negative consequences of their approach and is therefore not really a valid measure of their success.
I also find your comments on BBC bias bizarre. The BBC is doing what it always does and has continued to do throughout the pandemic: providing a platform to disseminate the propaganda of powerful interests and making sure the public are as uninformed as possible about any matters that might upset the status quo.
An interesting take on the BBC. Read any of their HYS comment sections on Covid (or any other topic really) and youâll get many of the great unwashed accusing the BBC being the mighty organ of the Tory party and the rest saying itâs the tool of the Labour Party. Unless of course the âpowerful interestsâ lie elsewhere?
On the odd occasion that Iâve bothered to read the comments, I usually give up after the first dozen as regardless of the topic they usually consist of the faux-intelligentsia sneering at brexit.
Thereâs a lot of that but a lot of pro-Brexit as well - though less and less tbh. Though I look at the HYS comments less and less as the humour is drying up.
The BBC is the tool of the establishment dressed up as a public service. The HYS comments you reference arenât a contradiction. Theyâre random contributions.
If Labour and Tory are both on board with the establishment, the BBC will willingly be a tool of both. The moment they start rocking the boat, theyâre out. We saw this with Corbyn. Fuck, we saw it with Miliband too.
If things had gone differently in the 1930s with Edward VIIIâs reign and his reputed Nazi sympathy had led to Britain not being involved in the war, or even entering on Germanyâs side, Iâve no doubt the BBC would have reported these events glowingly too.
I would love to see the tapes from the alternate universe.
Theyâre the people who engage with the site so most likely representative of the readership who want to interact with the editorial (albeit with too much time on their hands).
So what if the BBC is the mouthpiece of the establishment? You see through it. I do and I suspect most contributors on here do
Some slavishly hang on their every word. How do you classify the Daily Heil, The Express, The Grauniad or The Snu - all mouthpieces to reflect the readers own echo chamber? Pick your favourite and nod your head at the editorial?
You take your news from where you want to get it, me, you, everybody. Any responses to this post will be from the responderâs world view not necessarily those of the OP.
Press beginning to work themselves up into a lather about the new Botswana strain which has a âhorrific number of mutationsâ and maybe the âworst yetâ
Meanwhile, in the real world, 2 people have died from Covid in Botswana in the whole of November
Equally it may also be LESS capable of surviving and spreading due to those same mutations.
The fail article was just nonsense under a BE TERRIFIED Headline
Someone come to the office yesterday. Sit in a meeting room with six others. About an hour in, casually announced how grotty they feel and they have been running a temperature since the previous night.
Having been slung out of the office, they went to take a PCR and lo and behold they are positive.
They have better hope that Covid kills them because I am going to murder them when they decide to show their face again
As you can imagine the rest of the meetings attendees are raging
