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   Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 18:34:59 JST Jay Baker

   "Following his speech, a BBC News presenter apologised after she accused Farage of using 'customary inflammatory language.' Geeta Guru-murthy made the comment after a clip of Farage speaking at the Dover event was shown on the news channel, before later apologising and saying this 'didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality.' Live on air, Guru-murthy said: 'Earlier today we heard live from Nigel Farage, speaking at that election event we just saw. When we came away from his live speech, I used language to describe it which didn’t meet the BBC’s editorial standards on impartiality. I’d like to apologise to Farage and viewers for this.' In a post on X, Farage tagged the presenter and asked: 'What happened to impartiality?'' https://www.theguardian.com/politics/article/2024/may/28/uk-moving-to-sectarian-politics-with-women-excluded-from-inner-cities-says-nigel-farage

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 18:42:09 JST Jay Baker

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     Aside from the fact I agree with Michael Pollan that "Perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not," the fact that it's considered "partial" or irresponsible to consider speeches from the far-right "inflammatory" is another way the BBC has been able to proactively promote and platform previously-obscure fascists like Farage over the years. They repeatedly placed him, and even one time Nick Griffin, on their precious Question Time TV show, where the majority of panelists are already almost always right-wing.

     AnthonyJK-Admin and pettter repeated this.
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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 18:46:37 JST Jay Baker

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     Contrary to popular belief, the BBC has long been anti-left: https://theconversation.com/hard-evidence-how-biased-is-the-bbc-17028?ref=mediaactivist.com

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 18:56:29 JST Jay Baker

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     • Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

     @onepict Totally! Working with, and for, and essentially part of, the state. By their own proud admissions: https://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/document/document_20050822.shtml?ref=mediaactivist.com

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     Esther Payne :bisexual_flag: (onepict@chaos.social)'s status on Wednesday, 29-May-2024 18:56:30 JST Esther Payne :bisexual_flag:

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     @MediaActivist it's bias is in its founding bones. From the beginning.

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     Jay Baker (mediaactivist@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:30:22 JST Jay Baker

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     • Gavin

     @gavin57 I agree! Though maybe they don't choose to learn...it seems pretty deliberate, over and over.

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     Gavin (gavin57@toot.wales)'s status on Thursday, 30-May-2024 07:30:23 JST Gavin

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     @MediaActivist The only apology required here is for once again putting a camera and microphone anywhere near Nigel ‘we have fascism at home’ Farage’s face.

     Apparently they learned nothing from the Brexit disaster.