Some Christians say that the BBC is biased against Christianity, or it it just that they cannot comprehend biblical Christianity? The latest Grain video explores the question and proposes a few guidelines for what the BBC should do about this.
IS AUNTY BIASED?
A Grain of Sand 
Campbell, I wonder what is more likely to come first: BBC acceding to your three very modest and reasonable demands for change, or it’s complete demise, with its mega-buck stars having to tout their limited wares on the open market as the licence fee is abolished?
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The BBC are entrenched in their sense of entitlement and are convinced that they know best. The only thing they will listen to is political pressure and as they control the largest broadcasting organisation in the UK the politicians are loath to bring pressure to bear on them in case they have to pay the price. It really is a monstrous system where the BBC have inordinate power to influence the public whilst those who are supposedly looking after the interests of the public are beholden to the BBC. It will only be as their ideological standpoint becomes ever clearer that politicians will begin to take action. The prime minister’s restrictions, before the pandemic, on the cabinet speaking to the media were a start.
A new way of funding the BBC has to be found because the licence fee is causing greater and greater resentment. As our resentment grows clearer perhaps our representatives will listen to us.
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I have come to the same conclusions, except you have said it so much better. We gave up our TV licence at the start of March this year. I don’t like the morality or the progressive agendas. I am very annoyed that I am even part paying for Gary Linecker’s £1.7 million salary. Even radio 4 is hard work now John Humphrys has left.
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Thank you for the encouragement, it means a lot.
It’s not just the BBC, morally speaking the entire media is a decadent sink which gradually lowers the ethical standards of the nation day by day.
I agree with you about John Humphrys, he was a truly impartial interviewer who gave all politicians and their like a hard time whatever their position. Interestingly when it came to members of the public his approach was entirely different, he would gently coax responses from people who were clearly unused to performing on radio.
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I agree with you Campbell that the entire media establishment is a decadent sink, but why is this so? We seem to take for granted that the ‘long march through the institutions’ has brought us to where we are today with regard to academia, the political establishment and, yes the media.
Is it the case that these institutions are out of step with the rest of the public, particularly concerning moral and progressive issues, or are they simply following, rather than influencing the changing public thought on these issues?
I sometimes find it hard to tell, given that the media usually reports positively on progressive stories and very negatively on those that object to such stories. Reinforced of course by legislation that has frankly cemented into law and culture practices that are anathema to people like me and which one could discuss, only a few years ago, not now of course.
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I am pretty sure that the media leads the public and shapes the cultural space, the tone when reporting and interviewing, the shots used showing some in flattering light and not others, the social and cultural choices when portraying of heroes and villains in dramas, there is clear manipulation of viewpoints. I am prepared to believe that this is for the most part unconscious bias, but whatever the motivation the media is the most effective socially progressive activist group in the West.
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