"Crisis" At The Beeb?

[Khandro]

Andrew Marr, ( £360,000-a-year Marxist!) host of BBC One's Sunday morning politics show, says he is thinking of leaving the BBC because the new Director General wants news staff to be more neutral in their interviewing.
What's the crisis?

https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1437084/bbc-news-andrew-marr-politics-neutral-bbc-impartiality-latest

[Khandro]

I fail to see how Andrew Marr's departure from the BBC could be in any way considered as a 'crisis'.

[emmie]

aren't they planning a major shuffle, with many people having to move out of London towards other BBC news sites. I know they are already based in Salford, but i think that this might mean losing big names, those who don't want to move from the main hub.

[emmie]

The BBC is to move some of its key departments and staff outside London to make the corporation more reflective of the UK as a whole. It said its plans represent a "top-to-bottom change" and its biggest transformation in decades. Entire departments and news divisions will be moved to Birmingham, Cardiff, Leeds, Glasgow and Salford.

[Ken4155]

That's what i alluded to in my first post, Khandro. As far as i can ascertain, none of the other news sources use the word 'crisis' in their headlines. The Express have an ongoing vendetta with the BBC and believe their readers to be of the same mindset.

[lady-janine]

For Funks Sake I am fed up to my back teeth with these people who try to others to ransom and to blackmail everyone whatever their overpaid position is. If they think life is so much better and the grass is greener in another place then let them go. They are obviously not doing the job they are being paid to do with any care, enthusiasm or respect.

[Hopkirk]

Another one who thinks a flounce will bother people.

[Hopkirk]

Perhaps he's had a call from Andrew Neil at GB News.

[Khandro]

Btw, does anyone know from which platform Andrew Neil's GB News will be shown ? I have seen it will be on Freesat for one, will it also be on YouTube I wonder.

[perseverer]

Freeview channel 236

[webbo3]

Wait until GB news start broadcasting, viewers will be leaving in droves.

[DTCwordfan]

My Godson joined the Anarchists at UEA and gave up on them as they 'were too well organised' and went to the International Socialists. Today, he's working as an advisor on Renewables after a Masters at Oxford in Environmental Science - his old man and I reckon that he's a Conservative Minister in waiting. Just because Red Andy had a similar track record doesn't mean that you can define the man as being rabid left - unless you can produce real evidence?

Centrist, yes, that I would accept.

[Sunk]

The BBC Media City complex in Salford has been open for about 10 years. Many programmes are made there.

Andrew Neil’s American financed News Channel for right wing loonies will open in a few weeks. It will rival BBC News24, a public financed Channel, and SKY News, a vanity project that loses £80million a year. If News UK does see off anyone, it won’t be the BBC, it will be SKY.

[webbo3]

telling the truth isn't right wing, have a look at the presenters. ^

[Khandro]

'Andrew Marr resents the impartiality requirements of the BBC: the “biggest single frustration by far is … not being able to speak in your own voice”, he says.

Good. That is exactly how it should be. As an organisation funded by compulsory licence fee, the BBC must not allow its employees to “speak in their own voice” on controversial subjects. If they wish to speak out, that is perfectly understandable, but they must follow the logic of their position and leave the BBC. It is as simple as that. The fact that Mr Marr feels this frustration is a small sign that perhaps, under the new director-general, Tim Davie, the corporation is paying more than lip service to its key founding principle.

As for Mr Marr, if he feels so unhappy, he should join us columnists in the Wild West world of opinion. It is much more fun than the Beeb and he would be a glittering addition to our number.'

Charles Moore, today's Telegraph

Though I'm not sure about his final assertion.

[Sunk]

Khandro.
I disagree. Everyone should be allowed to voice their opinion, even BBC presenters.

They must not do it ‘on air’. That is, they must not do it while working for the BBC and have their opinion broadcast.
But it should be acceptable for someone like Andrew Marr give their opinion in a Tweet, in a newspaper column, on YouTube or in a book. (In fact everywhere that isn’t on the BBC).
Working for the BBC should not silence them from voicing their thoughts, not only is that unreasonable, it is also undeliverable.

[emmie]

if Andrew Marr said what he really thought of say Boris, given his seemingly left wing leanings, then surely that would be bias against the tories. If i expressed my view on the BBC that i think its full of left wing twonks, then i would likely be ousted.

[Sunk]

// If I expressed my view on the BBC that I think its full of left wing twonks, then I would likely be ousted. //

Ousted from where Emmie?
You are allowed your opinion - everyone is.
As long as you do not do it while broadcasting, if you work for the BBC, then there is no problem whatsoever.

[emmie]

i meant if i worked for the BBC, which i did once upon a time.

[youngmafbog]

//But it should be acceptable for someone like Andrew Marr give their opinion in a Tweet, in a newspaper column, on YouTube or in a book. (In fact everywhere that isn’t on the BBC).//

Most large corporations would not allow it so why the BBC? If someone was spouting right wing propaganda would you be happy? I doubt it somehow Sunk.

[tomus42]

I am so bored with left wingers moaning that the BBC is biased towards the right, and right wingers moaning that the BBC is biased towards the left.

Are people only going to class it as neutral when it does nothing but praise the party they happen to support?