Is the BBC Avoiding Critical Topics Like U.K Bankruptcy?

chrisweb

I've personally found the BBC's coverage of the economy and recession to be shockingly biased. I can't believe the contrast to some of the well founded criticisms from respected economists with a brilliant track record which have remained unheard on the BBC main news broadcasts.

This article describes just how bad the BBC coverage is.

I feel the BBC is for some reason or other avoiding critical facts that the public has a right to know. If people were more educated and this sort of info came out in the first place a lot of people would have been saved from negative equity.

If you are getting a bit frustrated with the BBC's coverage you can complain here.

mymatebob

chrisweb wrote: »

I've personally found the BBC's coverage of the economy and recession to be shockingly biased. I can't believe the contrast to some of the well founded criticisms from respected economists with a brilliant track record which have remained unheard on the BBC main news broadcasts.

This article describes just how bad the BBC coverage is.

I feel the BBC is for some reason or other avoiding critical facts that the public has a right to know. If people were more educated and this sort of info came out in the first place a lot of people would have been saved from negative equity.

If you are getting a bit frustrated with the BBC's coverage you can complain here.

How would people have been saved from negative equity?

chris_spackman

Browns Broadcasting Corp. They will avoid it.

I very much doubt that those who work there and get paid thousands and millions per year of OUR money care anyway.

poker_face

First off I disagree. Second, there actually doing the economy a favor by not reporting more doom and gloom, because when they do it has a negative effect on the markets, and thus the economy. And last but not least where is there any evidence that the UK is going bankrupt?

chrisweb

mymatebob wrote: »

How would people have been saved from negative equity?

By being more concerned about buying a house when so many top economists were calling a peak in a massive housing bubble that was going to burst very soon.

Degenerate

The BBC and other channels have also refused to report on the space-aliens from the planet Zog who are taking over peoples bodies. Well-respected alienologists have been trying to alert the public so they can protect themselves. It's a conspiracy I tell you, a cover-up!

mymatebob

chrisweb wrote: »

By being more concerned about buying a house when so many top economists were calling a peak in a massive housing bubble that was going to burst very soon.

So people would be concerned - and then what?
No-one would buy houses is that what you are suggesting?

chrisweb

poker_face wrote: »

First off I disagree. Second, there actually doing the economy a favor by not reporting more doom and gloom, because when they do it has a negative effect on the markets, and thus the economy. And last but not least where is there any evidence that the UK is going bankrupt?

Yes.

Niall Fergusen is one of a number of economists and financial commenter's that predict the British government is pushing the U.K into bankruptcy. This includes Robert Pretcher (January 2009, Elliot Wave forecast), Nadeem Walayat, Jim Rogers, Dan Atkinson, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Philip Delves Broughton, Mike Shedlock, Adrian Ash, John Stepek, Grant Thornton and many more.

Source: http://www.webtvhub.com/bankrupt-britain/bbc-hides-bankrupt-britain.php

It also happened in the 1970s and this recession is already widely accepted as as bad as the 1970s - why does it seem so unrealistic?

sabretoothtigger

Peston doesnt seem very labour biased even though his family are labour
Keeps on reporting just how crap the banks are doing and will do


Around september every person who went on the news and was too negative was scorned in some way.
Anyone talking about a run on the banks or bankrupty was told not to scaremonger, of course thats just what was happening and to a certain extent that attitude of 'dont look down or we'll fall' continues across all media and public offices

chrisweb

mymatebob wrote: »

So people would be concerned - and then what?
No-one would buy houses is that what you are suggesting?

Educated people can steer their government policy in a better direction for one preventing bubbles being created in the first place.

It's my belief that an educated public is much more proficient at making better decisions.

An argument is its good for the BBC to keep giving people good news because it saves our economy through social mood. Of course there's some truth in that as social news plays a factor - but for all the good forecasts coming out from the government (via the BBC) it hasn't stopped the recession been even worse. Also under that theory the BBC should have been feeding us full of bad news to stop the bubble being created in the first place.

At the end of the day a bubble is bursting, stopping people hearing about it is not going to stop it from bursting, the only way to stop it from bursting was to not have a bubble in the first place.

StevieJ

chrisweb wrote: »

I've personally found the BBC's coverage of the economy and recession to be shockingly biased. I can't believe the contrast to some of the well founded criticisms from respected economists with a brilliant track record which have remained unheard on the BBC main news broadcasts.

This article describes just how bad the BBC coverage is.

I feel the BBC is for some reason or other avoiding critical facts that the public has a right to know. If people were more educated and this sort of info came out in the first place a lot of people would have been saved from negative equity.

If you are getting a bit frustrated with the BBC's coverage you can complain here.

Where do we complain about you, I am getting a bit frustrated with the HPC mob, and their attempts to destroy the economy, houses not falling fast enough for you Not another Sock puppet :rotfl: