Naga Munchetty doesn’t think that her job is to simply present the news.
Broadcasters try to be impartial but they are not ‘robots or idiots’, Naga Munchetty has said.
The BBC Breakfast presenter said her role is not to sit and ‘blankly’ read the news but instead inform viewers ‘neutrally’ and give insight where possible.
That is precisely what her job is. If she wants to present a biased opinion, then work with an independent broadcaster or newspaper that will allow it. The BBC is supposed to be unbiased and that means presenting the news, not the presenter’s opinion, which is what Maitliss did.
Last year the 45-year-old was embroiled in a race row after she condemned President Donald Trump for telling some female politicians to ‘go back’ to where they came from.
She has no place condemning anyone for anything in her role.
She was found to have breached editorial guidelines by the corporation’s complaints unit, but the ruling was reversed after an outcry.
And that, itself was an outrage. The BBC showed its bias and should be defunded.
BBC director general Tony Hall said: ‘The Executive Complaints Unit ruling has sparked an important debate about racism and its interpretation.
‘Racism is racism and the BBC is not impartial on the topic. There was never a finding against Naga for what she said about the President’s tweet.’
Except for an important distinction – Trump’s tweet was not racist. As is usual for the progressives, they put their own spin on it and consequently, out of context of the conversation, made it look to their hard-of-thinking acolytes as if it was racist.
Defund the BBC. Defund it now. Burn it to the ground and salt the earth on the place where it stood.
As I said at the Ambush Predator blog, the context was that the people in question were slagging off the US. If you hate it so much then why are you still here? is a valid question whichever country is involved.
I’m hoping (in vain, almost certainly) that the powers-that-be tell OFCOM and the BBC that OFCOM will now deal with all complaints which the BBC fails to resolve to the satisfaction of the complainant and that OFCOM has the final say.
Formal external oversight might be the straw that breaks the camels back.
The powers-that-be might have to stiffen OFCOM’s resolve with a bit of light restructuing beforehand though.
I think she’s half right. Broadcasters aren’t robots.
Sell the BBC to Murdoch.
Two birds with one stone.
The munchkin is complete proof of the BBC’s degeneration, and is the perfect reason for the removal of the licence fee. Let the metro bubble maintain it themselves through personal voluntary subscription.
Oh, I don’t know. The BBC’s not only news. I rather like Radio 3 in the mornings.
Good for you. Feel free to pay the share of others who would rather not subscribe, but feel compelled to then. Moving from a compulsory license fee to a subscription, advertising or mixed model would seem to solve the problem, since the BBC is such a beloved institution it should have no problem generating subscription and advertising revenue to replace the £3,690,300,000 the the TV license provides to the BBC each year.
Saw that too. My thought was News programmes should be just that. Pontification, opinion etc is for Current Affairs shows which is why Piers Morgan does not present ITV News. BBC & C4 have forgotten this distinction
Ofcom needs to grow some balls. Maitless, Munchetty and more should be sacked
Defund the BBC – Yes
Burn it to the ground – No, privatise aka sell it
I don’t listen/watch BBC except some World Service. I listen to C4 news and fume, then watch some Fox News and Sky News Aus
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Good training info
Nothing I didn’t do, know, work-out, read & learn when a teen
Bailers: always thought they were stupid; keep trying is better – might not crash always became did not
Indeed. Modern tyres are very grippy.
As someone old enough to remember John Snagge and Alvar Liddell reading the news I agree that the readers own opinions should not be voiced. It is not quite so bad here in New Zealand, but I turned off the news yesterday when yet another attack on Donald Trump was aired. He is not our President and no one here voted for him,it is up to the Americans to deal with him as they see fit.
When it comes to radio I listen to Planet Rock. Incidentally, they have been running ads for getting on the motorbike/scooter training ladder as your key to freedom and avoiding virus infected public transport.
The web address that is given on the ad is unlock your freedom.co.uk a search provides plenty of hits for related web info but I couldn’t get that particular link to work.
Stupid autocorrect.
Unlockyourfreedom.co.uk
Interesting. They list one of the schools I work with, but no the other. The one they don’t list is the bigger, more well known of the two.
Gave up on the BBC when they remade an in-the-near-future drama based on only 1% of the population surviving an epidemic (topical by coincidence). Called The Survivors, the 1970’s version had 2 Alpha Males competing for leadership of a small group that came together; they were good at decision making, fixing things and seeing off the bad people.
The 2 lead women had been a teacher and a nurse so good at empathy and looking after the two orphans in the group plus a physics Professor to explain the complicated stuff to us and an unsympathetically racially profiled Welshman.
In the remake over half the cast were ethnic (no particular problem with that), the Alpha Females Kicked Ass and fixed the things the white racist would be rapist C-minus males were too thick to.
I used to get the bus once a week to visit my old Mum a few miles away by the seaside, only so I could have a couple of beers afterwards looking at the sunset. I always got a return ticket but would invariably get a taxi back because public transport. Never been on a bus, or train, since.
o/t. Chatting to a single mum yesterday, self employed (unemployed) hairdresser. “Where did maddie McCann come out the f*ckin woodwork ? They known about that bloke from the off so how come it’s just in papers now ? I reckon it’s just a distraction from the Covid”.
I pointed out there is no Covid now and gave a few ONS local stats, ‘it’s to distract us from the new lockdown regulations, masks and wotnot’.
“Think you may be right mate, think that might be what that BLM b*ll*cks is about too, just a distraction ?”
I watched the original back in the seventies. I knew the remake would piss me off, so I gave it a miss.
Do you remember why they were always looking for Greg in season 2?
In the storyline, he went off to find other groups in Norway. In reality, the actor who played him, Ian McCulloch was unhappy that the show was being taken over by Denis Lill who played Charles.