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An increasing proportion of UK citizens are deciding not to pay for a TV licence that funds the BBC as consumption patterns have changed.

The BBC will be a zombie in 10 years unless they stop being emotionally driven and sort out their funding.

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Good. The BBC is no longer the shining beacon of objective reporting it once was. Let it die and be replaced by something better.

Presumably you get your news content from Rupert Murdoch, the Daily Mail and UK News?

Here's the BBC wanting you to feel that autistic people are scary: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48934982

Don't spout shite. The BBC report is objectively what the defence stated in court: namely that their defendant was autistic.

If you've a problem with that, take it up with the lawyers.

For what it's worth, I stopped paying the license fee because of how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE. From Newsnight displaying images of Corbyn that made him look like a Soviet stooge, to Laura Kuenssberg leaking postal vote ballot information, to Alex Forsyth saying that Boris Johnson "deserves" the election.

People say that it's subject to complaints of bias from both sides of the spectrum, but I've yet to see comparable concrete pro-left examples.

> how the BBC sucked up to the Tories in the lead up to the 2019 GE

> Laura Kuenssberg

ughh yes so glad that era is behind us. Good riddance.

I don't know whether this is a joke or not, because she's still there.

She is not Political Editor of BBC anymore. She's just a talk show host as I understand it (though still on a HEFTY salary - £410k, fourth highest in the BBC).

Presumably a very difference sphere of influence.

If everybody thinks you’re biased, you’re probably not biased at all.

Look at how the BBC reports on the Middle East and tell me you agree with it.

That doesn't address anything unless you stake out and back up your position. Pro-Palestine and pro-Israel advocates both accuse the BBC of bias towards the other side.

Objectively, the BBC downplays what the USA and Israel do over there and doesn't downplay what Hamas and Iran do over there.

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