BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of rightwing backlash

Re:BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ... by gadders on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:09PM (#35098424)

That's not a great article. He doesn't even realise that Rod Liddle is a Social Democrat and was previously in the Labour Party, and Piers Morgan was editor for the Daily Mirror and very much not of the right.

However, my point wasn't that there is a sharing of employees between the Guardian and the BBC, more that they both reflect the same bien pensant North London left wing orthodoxy - Brexit bad, immigration good, climate change an apocalypse etc etc.

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Re:BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Friday March 10, 2023 @01:21PM (#35098633)

And are you going to address who they do share employees with? It's a party that's not left-wing.

That's factual. The rest "not a great article", "North London left wing orthodoxy", and "BBC is insufficiently pro-Brexit" is vague, feelings not fact-based.

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Re:BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ... by gadders on Friday March 10, 2023 @06:23PM (#35102719)

The BBC also had Gavyn Davies as a chairman.

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Re:BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ... by SideburnsOfDoom on Saturday March 11, 2023 @04:48AM (#35106920)

"Gavyn Davies ... is a former Goldman Sachs partner who was the chairman of the BBC from 2001 until 2004"

> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavyn_Davies

So this ended 19 years ago. I'm sorry, I don't see the relevance of this historical anecdote to what's currently true?

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