Things you don't know if you watch the BBC

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/ta_mills/status/1204046274288373761?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/francisqcoyle/status/1204156328815579137?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

Meanwhile on newsnight

[URL]https://twitter.com/barrygardiner/status/1204187425372876801?s=21[/URL]

[Snake Plissken]

The look on Rayner's face there.

[Nefertiti2]

The look on Rayner's face there.

Apart from anything else it was supposed to be an 18-30 question time and Barnett trivialises perhaps the most important issue for that generation.

[Nefertiti2]

At least 9 million views of the Johnson phone clip.

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/stevenjbarnett/status/1204318546861461504?s=21[/URL]

[E10 Rifle]

If there's one theme of the coverage of this election: it's that regional media have absolutely outshone their national counterparts. Look at the way the ITV north-west reporter eviscerated Johnson over cuts, the consistent grillings he's always had from BBC London's Tim Donovan, the Leeds hospital coverage, the unerringly excellent reportage from the Manchester Evening News's Jen Williams; and compare it to the vacuous, supine waffle of Peston, Kuenssberg and the likes. This might be because these reporters' most trusted contacts are actual engaged members of the public, rather than powerful, scheming 'No 10 sources'.

Whatever, this has been an absolutely disastrous campaign for those of us who want to defend the BBC's ethos.

[Satchmo Distel]

Whatever the result of this election, historians will look back on it as the moment the BBC's national politics coverage completed its move from moderately right of centre to radical right, which had started around 2016. The cultural consequences of that shift might outlast the economic consequences of the vote, although culture and economics are closely entwined. If the Tories get a majority, we end up with the US scenario of all progressive economic ideas being stigmatized as Communist, whilst minorities have to rely on the courts as the legislature slashes away at their rights and safety nets.

[Nefertiti2]

https//twitter.com/owen_g/status/1204372394430861315?s=20The AYorkshire Post was also very good

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarr9/stat...710427648?s=20

https://twitter.com/AndrewMarr9/status/1204370486710427648?s=20

Tactical voting is now "sinister"

https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1204340232344293376?s=20https://twitter.com/JMPSimor/status/1204340232344293376?s=20

[ad hoc]

Look! Someone on the BBC going against the party line! (It's the second of these tweets that I'm referring to, not sure how to separate it)

https://twitter.com/poetinpyjama/status/1203697907943251968

[ad hoc]

On today's BBC site.
"General election 2019: Ads are 'indecent, dishonest and untruthful'"

All fair enough, and should be highlighted. When you read through the various points made about election ads, you finally get to the end of the article where it lets you know that the independent review found 88% of Tory ads contained fraudulent claims, and 0% of Labour ones did.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/techn...mpression=true

[Nefertiti2]

Meanwhile all the BBC boys Marr, Vine Naughtie are saying what an excellent journalist Kuennsberg is. And the criticism she faced is bullying

shes just fucked up. And it’s not -as if it’s a one off.

[URL]https://twitter.com/mrdavidwhitley/status/1204435270986272769?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

The BBC now repeating the utterly discredited claims the photo was staged.

[URL]https://twitter.com/rickwookie/status/1204444870481469440?s=21[/URL]

[Gangster Octopus]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2019-50687425
Read the headline and then the actual story...

[johnr]

Off to Crawley in the morning, then Hastings to GOTV on Thursday (was going to go to East Worthing and Shoreham, but mycampaignmap.com said it was 'full up').

[Nefertiti2]

Thanks JohnR-(this is the BBC thread but it's hard to tell the difference these days

[johnr]

Ah, yes...

[Nefertiti2]

Ian Dale

[URL]https://twitter.com/davemacladd/status/1204381565305966592?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/plashingvole/status/1204531526270169090?s=21[/URL]

[Nefertiti2]

[URL]https://twitter.com/shelaghfogarty/status/1204504943698288641?s=21[/URL]

[Antepli Ejderha]

[URL]https://twitter.com/shelaghfogarty/status/1204504943698288641?s=21[/URL]

LBC journalists calling out the BBC is something else. Fogarty is very good, passionate and caring with a sense of empathy many lack.

[Walt Flanagans Dog]

Can't link but Laura K has broadcast some "people are saying" view on how the postal votes are looking, which really is forbidden territory.

[Sporting]

I'll bìte. What are people saying?

[ad hoc]

"looking grim for Labour"

But obviously actually saying anything about the postal votes before the actual election is utterly against the rules. Plus who knows with Kuenssberg whether it's actually true anyway or just something that Cummings has told her to say in order to lower the Labour turnout. I have zero trust in her to report anything with any honesty