newsnight right now attacking "self employed"

[Pondlife]

Whilst I would agree with with your assertion about the motives of Murdoch I am quite worried that you seem to think that the BBC "serves the people first" It does not . It serves itself. It may seem impartial but the only way it is kept in check is because of the eternal scrutiny it comes under much of which is from the Murdoch press and some of which is exaggerated or even builyt on lies.

if there was no BBC we would be fed news that would deliver the Murdoch agenda. The same goes for the BBC. If there was no private press it would succumb to serving its paymaters - the government.

Like public services and other non market institutions the BBC should be subject to constant criticism and scrutiny.

people like you who assume anything is done for the good of people are frankly a danger to us all.

Alan Partridge is another hypocrite - he lives like a Tory.

They were Coogan's comments not mine, hence the linkys.

He slags off the Murdochs until he need a home for his new TV series.

[DodgyAgent]

They were Coogan's comments not mine, hence the linkys.

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Sorry they did not seem like your words

[xoggoth]

for all the derision about public sector workers, the vast majority are decent hard-working people trapped in a useless system

Don't disagree but it does not alter the fact that too many receive salaries, pension and job security paid for by equally hard working people in the private sector who don't get these things themselves.

[PorkPie]

far too subtle a distinction, most of the public can only cope with 'God = Good, Satan=Bad' level of arguments.

To quote Bill Hicks, Hell has all the good music

[escapeUK]

far too subtle a distinction, most of the public can only cope with 'God = Good, Satan=Bad' level of arguments.

I prefer god = good, devil = evil as it shows exactly where the words come from.

[Taita]

doing a report on "self employed" cleaners in London who aren't self employed because they have to sign in and out, don't use own tools, have no control of hours

there's a bandwagon building methinks

Is this exposure being led by Jeremy Paxman of Inside Track Productions LLP?

[Mich the Tester]

I employ them

Yes, you owe me money and my mate Giovanni and the boys from Palermo will be visiting you this weekend.

[speling bee]

It always amazes me that people think the BBC is in anyway impartial, they are very lefty biased and have considered it for a long time to be the state indoctrination channels. Sky may have a bias too, but perhaps because it is not so different from my own personal bias I rarely noticed it, though now days I have found that news on TV tells me too much about things I want to know nothing about.

Nothing is impartial of course.

But the BBC is clearly right of centre on economic / political terms. Weave deem through this massive crisis if capitalism but they never question the capitalist orthodox position.

They do have a very liberal bias in social issues and also a metropolitan bias.

I notice the political bias but not really the social one as it is close to my own.

[DodgyAgent]

Nothing is impartial of course.

But the BBC is clearly right of centre on economic / political terms. Weave deem through this massive crisis if capitalism but they never question the capitalist orthodox position.


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they most certainly do - they undermine it. what I find fascinating is how so many people who benefit from the capitalist system who love to criticise it but offer no alternative.

[MayContainNuts]

They were Coogan's comments not mine, hence the linkys.

He slags off the Murdochs until he need a home for his new TV series.

Still smarting over this guy!!! Horrible horrible man!!!