WhyDoIBother
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As the other responder said, governments of different hues in recent decades have been quite upfront about their dislike of the BBC (well the news particularly). They were unforgiving of the Gilligan affair, although neither came out well from that episode. And their antipathy for BBC journalists questioning Brexit (in the course of doing their job) was plain to see.
And yet they are a state controlled machine in the way of Pravda?
I've worked at home on and off for the last decade, and have probably watched more BBC News 24 than most, and like other outlets they can be sloppy and have to correct (part of that comes with being a real time reactive 24 hour channel, most would accept). But the idea that they are manipulating narratives in a machiavellian way is nonsense, and not in the way Pravda and their like do.
People want to see sorcery where there is none or little to none.
And put very simply, compared to Fox News, the BBC is nothing but middle of the road.
We know what state controlled media machines in some countries look and feel like. We know what commercial propoganda machines like Fox look and feel like.
The BBC, when it comes to news, is far from perfect, but that's more about quality. And when you consider the breadth of its news reporting, be it the general news, discussion programmes like Dateline London and Hard Talk, both on the BBC News channel, let alone the breath of their radio (news) programming, its very hard to argue they look anything like the examples of propaganda mentioned above.
You appear to live in London, the 'London media bubble' exists. I'm sorry but the news you receive that affects your area from the BBC likely differs greatly from the news the BBC pumps out up here.
So please don't try and fob off what I'm saying as some kind of sorcery, you, as someone who lives within that area the media bubble vehemently protects have likely experienced next to nothing of the utter contempt the BBC and virtually every other MSM outlet has for the areas outside London and the South East and of course the 3 satellite nations, all this does is make you sound as the ignorant as the twits the BBC employ to report the news.
Did you know Scotland is the only net exporter of fuel, power and food in the whole of the UK? You'll never hear that from the BBC up here, only how poverty stricken we are by debt given to us by another country and we shouldn't ask too many questions about that.
Did you know that when oil was discovered in the North Sea the UK was effectively broke and there was a report commissioned that described what would have happened if Scotland had power over it's waters at that time. It was so embarrassing the Tory government made it secret only for the following Labour government to make it top secret?
When it was declassified the BBC in Scotland played down it's significance.
The BBC has always been a propaganda outlet for the British state, not been looking but out of curiosity how much coverage is it giving the story that the British state siphoned $45 trillion dollars in today's money from India while it was a colony?
Pretty sure the narrative was India was too poor to go it alone all the way up to 1947, another very familiar UK state trope the BBC like to shout from Pacific Quay...