BBC charter review consultation hijacked by left-wing campaign group
The Culture Secretary has been forced to revisit the consultation on the future of the BBC
John Whittingdale, the culture secretary, is to launch a new study of public attitudes towards the BBC, after a consultation into the future of the corporation was hijacked by a left-wing campaigning group.
It has now emerged that 177,000 submissions – 92 per cent of all responses – were sent via 38 Degrees, a “campaigning community” that specialises in organising mass-emails to MPs. The group told its three million members that ministers planned to “rip out the heart of the BBC”, by forcing the corporation to take adverts and ending its independence from government –neither of which are proposed in the green paper.
Not only did 38 Degrees organise the massed response but damningly ‘guided’ the answers that people wrote to the review….which you might think completely undermined any appearance of credibility and honesty…..
The group told its members that it had “translated” the “gobbledegook” questions in the consultation into plain English, and gave them a crib sheet advising people how to respond. One question in the green paper asked, “How well is the BBC serving its audiences?”, which 38 Degrees told its members to answer as “Which parts of the BBC do you particularly love?”.
A question asking whether the corporation had a negative impact on any of its commercial rivals was described as: “If you value having independent news that comes without adverts, you could write about that here.”
Democracy. How the left hate it. And how it will do everything it can to undermine it on any subject. Their blind defence of the BBC proves in what direction the BBC is biased.
Oh no…the Left love Democracy…much as Erdogan does…it’s a bus they can ride until they can impose their own version of egalitarianism. Corbyn is the classic example of that in action….hijacking ‘democracy’ by packing in the committed activists.
It was fairly obvious to anyone of the thousands of people, like me, who received the emails from 38 degrees that it was a set up to protect the BBC. Just as their campaign to protect the NHS from tory privatisation is a set up to support Labour. But Winteringbollocks will still bow before the BBC.
Does anybody know if it was 38 degrees that organised the ‘Ban Trump’ campaign?
I believe it was Suzanne Kelly from Aberdeen who petitioning the government to ban Trump from entry to the British Isles on hate speech grounds.
She does not appear to like Trump and campaigned against Trump’s plan to build “the greatest golf course in the world” on the Menie Estate in 2013 on various environmental grounds.
All of 38 degrees staff are lefties and they consistently distort the truth to get people to sign their anti-government petitions. The worst example was probably their most successful, persuading half-a-million of the public that nationalised forests shouldn’t be privatised because 38 degrees wanted to be able to cycle through them, destroying the footpaths and wildlife.
Google 38degrees and George Soros and and there are some interesting results. I made the mistake a few years ago of signing one of their petitions and was bombarded on a regular basis with requests for me to sign many more petitions for issues which on closer examination were of a left-wing bent. I very quickly unsubscribed but I wonder how many other people were sucked into this Agitating organisation and give their support without careful reflection on what they are supporting?
Me. Unfortunately. I signed one for bees. After that it was everything coming through…
I keep getting emails on the progress of petitions I signed. Except I didn’t sign them.
Ditto. Occasionally one of their more intelligent supporters will get them to support a reasonable cause. Although it is rare. I too get loads of spam from them, usually pushing some lefty bollocks.
Completely agree Sir Arthur. I signed a few of their petitions in the beginning, but it soon became very apparent that the selection of petitions and the way in which they were worded had an obvious left-wing agenda. Rather than bolstering democracy the whole project is extremely anti-democratic. When I opted out, I emailed them to tell them exactly that. Not surprisingly I did not get a reply.
Yep, the BBC is unbiased but all its supporters are unhinged leftists. Must be a coincidence.
Proof positive that left-wing people are morons when it comes to understanding the freedom of the “free market“.
“forcing the corporation to take adverts” should be “allowing the corporation to take adverts” and “ending its independence from government”
should be “giving it independence from government”
No one likes Adverts, but Adverts with lots and lots of Black people in them, could win over the BBC.
Also, although the News is independent from the Tory Government. The News on the BBC would not be independent from a Labour Government, even if the BBC was independent from a government charter, and a government enforced compulsory Licence fee payment for the upkeep of the BBC, by the poor British public, even if most British people do not support the BBC’s left-wing middle class Labour supporting low IQ journalists.
“No one likes Adverts, but Adverts with lots and lots of Black people in them, could win over the BBC.”
How about adverts with endless mixed race couples? Oh, I forgot, we have those already…
The adverts argument, is the usual bollocks from lefties who are hard of thinking.
Breaking the BBC up into several separate independent private subscription services would increase the revenue of the BBC, and there would be no need for adverts at all.
Break the BBC into BBC Films, BBC news & current affairs, BBC Sport, BBC light entertainment, BBC Climate Change, (formerly their excellent science & natural history from BBC Bristol), BBC Drama… etc.
Charge a subscription for each service and the profits from those could fund a genuinely independent, unbiased, regulated, free-to-air public service channel.
If the government did that, crime would instantly drop by 12% too.
If you need any further proof that the BBC has a huge left-wing bias, just observe how ferociously the Left defend it. It is the Left’s most valuable and effective weapon.
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Correct.
Which is why it has to die.
I think that it has to die, because they have spent decades facilitating and covering up for child abuse.
A few years back the Govt treated C4M submission on Gay marriage proposals as a single submission since these submissions were similarly based on a template. It would be logical that similar treatment be applied in this example.
I started the BBC submission and baled on the first page as it was so loaded to favour them. Completed the Govt one instead but failed to answer the questions correctly and just told them that the BBC was total shite.