BBC released the results of their "Our BBC, Our Future" survey1
Think it's quite apparent how badly the BBC is doing given where people think they are vs how important to people it is.

Like, 91% of folk believe that BBC should be indpendent of government, with 43% of people believing that BBC are independent. Not sure why that % is so high tbh, it's clearly been a governmental tool for a long time.

That, broadly, the stats coming back are so similar across questions shows that people are somewhat united in what they want BBC to be and how it's doing.​

#BBC #UKMedia

1. https://www.bbc.co.uk/ourbbcourfuture ↩︎

"The Liberal Democrats are having their party conference, so this is a chance for its leader to make a relatively rare appearance on the news, and perhaps explain what the Liberal Democrat’s policies are, or what their political aims are. But Chris Mason had other ideas."

#UKPolitics
#UKMedia
#BBC

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/09/farage-and-bbc.html?m=1

The BBC fact-checked the key elements of Trumps speech and found them wanting.

This is what US media could — and should — have been doing all along but didn't.

Perhaps we could look forward to the BBC treating Farage in a similar manner.

#USPolitics
#Trump
#USMedia
#UKMedia

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/09/24/the-bbcs-epic-fact-check-of-donald-trumps-un-speech-just-went-wildly-viral-and-americans-stood-up-to-applaud/

“We put targets on our colleagues. We undermined #Palestinians and Palestinian voices. We contributed to dehumanising them. We, I became complicit."

https://www.thenational.scot/news/25472712.quit-bbc-gaza-coverage-saw-behind-scenes/
#Gaza #GazaCoverage #Palestine #PalestineCoverage #media #BBC #UKmedia #WesternMedia #mediaCriticism

So while the #UKMedia and opposition pressure the government into sacking a man who was friends with #Epstein, they welcome and laud a convicted criminal and proven liar who was friends with, and potentially a partner with, the very same sex trafficker. #Trump shouldn't be welcomed here.

The BBC's fluffing of Farage continues apace as the BBC's chief political correspondent creams his trousers at the thought of Reform conference attendees queuing up to get their expensive merchandising signed.

Absolutely full cringe.

You may want to keep this article in your medicine cupboard just in case you ever need an emetic.

#BBC
#BBCNews
#UKMedia
#UKPolitics

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c62zdpke8kko

As far as I understand the affair, Angela Rayner got into a muddle about a complex personal tax issue and as a result of this confusion made a statement that was not true. The confusion seems to have arisen in connection with her attempting to provide for her disabled son.

Not great, but I can't get worked up about it.

What I do get worked up about is the long running campaign waged by the the Telegraph and the Mail to hound Rayner out of office.

These loathsome right wing rags cannot abide the thought of a decidedly unOxbridge, left wing, working class woman being in a position of power.

#UKPolitics #AngelaRayner #UKMedia #Labour

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/05/the-guardian-view-on-in-our-time-melvyn-bragg-has-proved-that-media-can-be-both-serious-and-popular

When I feel sad and angry about the BBC's willingness to be Nigel Farage's megaphone, I try to save myself from plunging into despair by remembering the kind of broadcasting which Melvyn Bragg exemplifies.

#UKMedia #BBC #NigelFarage #MelvynBragg

Just in case you were wondering which demographic the English political and media classes are aiming for.

#UKPolitics
#UKMedia
#EverydayRacism

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/09/01/this-appalling-exchange-captured-by-sky-news-is-a-horrific-snapshot-of-precisely-where-the-uk-is-right-now/

Time to do a #Custerfuchs about people who have and act on personal narratives which are based around torture & murder of "others" and how the British media and establishment are currently engaging in reinforcing those narratives by projecting them onto "asylum seekers".

In a law court, knowledge that someone has those opinions would be considered evidence of "malice aforethought" or "premeditation".
Disseminating those opinions would be considered incitement and not "legitimate complaints" or "legitimate political discourse".

The essay is going to need a clever title.
Something like
"Nigel Farage is planning Genocide"
or something like that.

( Hi, Nigel! )

#BritishTabloids #UKMedia #TheBBC #BBCNews #OnlineSafetyAct #Ofcom

"Social liberals, despite making up at least half the UK population, have little voice in politics and the media nowadays. They are the new silent majority. This alone is a good reason for a new party of the left, and a more active Green leadership, but neither will make much of an impact on a broadcast media that is used to balancing the government with the opposition, and which largely ignores other political parties unless they are led by Farage. It will of course make no impact on the right wing press."

#UKPolitics
#UKMedia

https://mainlymacro.blogspot.com/2025/08/reform-and-uk-press.html

#SkyNews is now calling for violence against #refugees and #illegalimmigration, and to #StopTheBoats.

So while #GBNews does not have much of an audience, its existence is dragging other #UKMedia to the extreme #rightwing.

https://thegreatcritique.wordpress.com/2025/08/25/gunboat-media-ocrity/

I no longer live in the UK, but I care about what is going on there.

I am deeply worried that GB News is beginning to do to the UK what Fox has done to the USA.

#UKPolitics #UKMedia #UKTelevision #GBNews

As if any effort was needed to find examples of how scummy and division-stoking the British newspapers are, and how stirred up with hate they have made *small* parts of the UK, they try to make light the resultant situation they have contributed to with their agendas.

It’s got to the stage that tents will set a small number of people off. It isn’t just hotel usage that triggers now.

😔

#ScoutingUK #UKmedia #UKnewspapers #UKnews

Why it matters who owns a newspaper
#Politics #MediaOwnership #PressFreedom #Journalism #Newspapers #MediaEthics #FreePress #UKMedia #TheTelegraph #EditorialIndependence #NewsMedia #MediaPolitics #PressRights #MediaInfluence
https://the-14.com/why-it-matters-who-owns-a-newspaper/

The BBC, for all its shortcomings, is one of the best online news sources.

Paywalling its content in a superpower poorly served by broadcast media and awash with misinformation, disinformation, and UScentric journalism is bad news for everybody.

BBC website in US launches paid subscription service

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2vgkn7w10o

#Media #BBC #USMedia #Journalism #News #UKMedia

ICYMI: UK broadcasters plan unified self-service TV advertising marketplace https://ppc.land/uk-broadcasters-plan-unified-self-service-tv-advertising-marketplace/ #TVAdvertising #UKMedia #SmallBusiness #Broadcasting #MarketingStrategy

ICYMI: UK broadcasters plan unified self-service TV advertising marketplace: Sky, Channel 4 and ITV join forces with Comcast technology to democratize television advertising access for small businesses starting 2026. https://ppc.land/uk-broadcasters-plan-unified-self-service-tv-advertising-marketplace/ #TVAdvertising #UKMedia #SmallBusiness #Broadcasting #MarketingStrategy

A reminder, as if 'twere needed, that when that weasel fell into the Large Hadron Collider that time we got shunted into the most stupid parallel universe.

#UKMedia
#ReformUK

https://www.thepoke.com/2025/06/12/reform-chairmans-strangled-by-possessed-derek-acorah/