There’s always accusations of ‘bias’ at the BBC. I’ve found this myself with Match of the Day showing Spurs matches that we lose. That’s very upsetting and the entire tone of the reporting, calling us ‘useless’ and ‘lacking direction’ and ‘fucking crap’, although possibly true, is unfairly discriminatory and causes me ongoing mental health issues.

Everyone finds the BBC biased. The lefties think they’re too right wing. Everyone else thinks they’re pathetically leftist and too woke for their own good. The Zionists think they’re pro-Palestinian and the Palestinians think they’re pro-Israel. Even Donald Trump is a victim, as he should be, when the BBC edited a speech he made to create an inflammatory sounding message. Which has now caused the great (???) Boris Johnson to refuse to pay his license fee until ‘this bias ends’. And we all know what a high moral bar Boris uses. If it breathes, shag it, if it’s edible, eat it, if there’s a rule, break it.

The woke-ism reached its peak last week when a newsreader had the audacity to raise her eyebrows when reading from her autocue the phrase ‘pregnant people’. Which she then amended to ‘pregnant women’, causing uproar, outrage and irreparable mental damage to all the pregnant men, boys and hermaphrodites.

Yet bias is not really purely about statements. Or speech. It’s subtle and nuanced in that it manifests as an attitude. Which affects the whole tone of what is being said. If you have a preconceived position, your report will be given from that perspective, even though you’re not conscious of doing so. The news presenter on BBC Arabic who had sent messages in praise of Hamas’ atrocities is not really the person to be speculating on Israeli actions. A fairly obvious case. And the fact is that when an ‘independent journalist’ sets out to find ‘just facts’, around which to base a report or a program, they set out on their mission because they have an agenda, way more personalised than mere ‘truth’, and they aim their reporting towards that. It’s the human condition; we think. Therefore we am. ? (Rene Descartes, long time ago).

They should face up to this side of human nature, give up the whole idea of ‘neutrality’ and just give people the news they really want to hear. So you would have BBC-Left, BBC-Right, BBC-Hamas, BBC-Hitler, BBC-Chelsea. BBC-nice, BBC-horrid and BBC-Russia. And BBC-Spurs. But only when we win. Ok, or draw.

Happy Sunday

A xxxx