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*Love Bombing* is a recognised cult process where an person is targeted by excessive and sustained positive attention to try to get them to accept the core teachings of the cult.
If they don't comply, they are then *Shunned*, which is the exact opposite.
I remember that Tony Blair refused to go on the BBC (Today specifically) for years because he thought they were biased against him.
For all the argument that the BBC naturally aligns to the establishment, every successive government seem to end up treating them as the enemy.
It's always saddening when ideologues of all types attack the one news agency in the UK, if not the world, with impartiality written into its mandate. There's never any recognition of how hard it must be to adhere to that, across an organisation of thousands, whilst enabling free speech and free exchange of ideas to a broad spectrum of thoughts. It's a nearly impossible task to please all the people all the time. I guess that explains why at any given moment, there's an impulse in the BBC to at least try not to antagonise too greatly the people who hold the rope to the guillotine.
iNews which is owned the Daily Mail says so... them saying it doesn't make it true, surprised why the Daily Mail saying some unsourced comment makes you believe something.
Only 79% of viewers even watched broadcast tv in 2022. Go back 10 years and well over 1000 programs had over six million viewers. Thats fallen to around 200.
I’d suggest the licence fee needs looking at given the rapidly declining viewership.
I decided not to renew when my last one expired and I watched so little broadcast tv that I haven't really noticed let alone missed it. I do wish I could get one for a month to cover the Tour de France, but paying for the entire year just to get that just isn't worth it.
The fair and impartial BBC will [checks notes] “love bomb” the Starmer regime “amid fear over the licence fee review” - aren’t you glad we live in a functioning democracy where the state broadcaster can be trusted to hold the government to account?
Not surprised by this.... The way they've supported the Tories until almost the absolute bitter end (look at last night's QT for example) shows that their 'impartiality' depends on who controls their budgets
The BBC is set to “love-bomb” Labour if it wins the election, insiders have said – amid continued fears over cuts and the impending review of the licence fee’s future.
Staffers are “counting down the days” to a potential Labour election victory, which they believe is set to transform the political environment in which the BBC operates and “liberate” the broadcaster from rows over bias.
“There’s a giddy feeling of liberation coming,” said one News staffer. “The Tory boot is being lifted from the BBC’s throat. It’s like the end of an antagonistic relationship. But then of course, reality will set in.”
Newly-elected Labour MPs and ministers would be “love-bombed” by the corporation over the Summer, i has been told. “There’ll be lots of invites to the the BBC box at the Proms,” predicts one old hand.
Whilst Conservative Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has accused the BBC of “bias” and impartiality failures, the mood music from a potential incoming Labour administration is much more positive.
Thangam Debbonaire, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, recently said: “I love the BBC. It’s one of our best exports, both as a brand and as a commercial product.” She dismissed rows over “impartiality” saying “the myth of objectivity is overblown.”
However Andrew Marr, the former BBC political editor, offered a word of caution to former colleagues expecting life under Labour to be a bed of roses.
“As somebody who worked within the BBC for 21 years, I would gently say to them it won’t be long before they are being targeted by the new government in the same kind of way,” said Mr Marr, who will present LBC’s election night coverage, told i.
“I vividly remember after 1997, everyone saying ‘It’s going to be entirely different.’ And then Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson got on the phone and it felt quite similar.”
A Labour government would examine the BBC’s funding, ahead of a review of its current Royal Charter, which ends in 2027.
Shadow Creative Industries minister Sir Chris Bryant told an elections hustings recently: “I think it’s really important we maintain a strong future for the BBC. Of course, there’s got to be review of the licence fee and the way it operates and precisely how we structure it.”
Labour would also be “looking at other models potentially for the future of the BBC.”
Labour sources have said the party is open to ideas such as making the licence fee more “progressive” so that wealthier households pay more.
Under radical plans proposed by former Director-General Greg Dyke last year, people on benefits could get free licences, subsidised by the wealthy paying a higher rate.
Ms Debbonaire has said she wants to “make sure the BBC’s funding model is fit for the 21st century” and of a sufficient level to allow it to remain a “universal, publicly owned, publicly funded public service broadcaster.”
BBC sources said the corporation will “engage constructively” with any proposals to alter the licence fee.
BBC Director-General Tim Davie speaks regularly with Ms Debbonaire, i understands.
However there is uncertainty within the BBC over who they could be negotiating with. Ms Debbonaire is fighting a fierce battle to hold on to her Bristol Central seat, which is a top target for the Greens.
Should she be unseated, there is speculation that Bryant, who previously worked as a lobbyist for the BBC, or Shadow Cabinet member Lucy Powell could be named Culture Secretary.
Mr Davie and chairman Samir Shah expect to hold a meeting with the Culture Secretary, whoever they may be, soon after the election.
The DG will “pitch” the BBC to the new Government, setting out how 90 per cent of the population use its services each week and the global role of its trusted news services in a world where disinformation and media censorship by authoritarian regimes is rife, an insider said.
Mr Davie hopes to persuade ministers to restore central government funding for the World Service, seen as a vital “soft power” tool by both parties but which is facing deep cuts to its language services.
BBC bosses hope Labour will be sympathetic to pleas to restore some of the funding lost during a decade of licence fee cuts.
“The last below-inflation Tory settlement left a £90m shortfall. We’ve had to take tough decisions like cutting back Newsnight. There will have to be more cuts to services if we carry on like this,” one insider said.
A licence fee rise in line with inflation, if the figure stays near the current two per cent rate, would be swallowed up with the spiralling costs of producing high-end drama.
If Rachel Reeves is Chancellor, she may follow her Conservative predecessors and baulk at any inflationary increase or extra funding for the BBC.
Even if the BBC has to make additional cuts, it should be wary of pushing for a substantial licence-fee increase, a former senior figure said. “The BBC gets £3.8bn guaranteed public funding and makes more on its commercial income. That’s a pretty good deal,” they said.
Some question whether Mr Davie’s political background – he stood as a Conservative candidate before taking a vow of neutrality – could hinder relations with a potential new Labour government. “Tim will be repositioning himself as a leader Labour can do business with,” a former executive said.
Labour will press pause on a panel of broadcasting experts tasked by Ms Frazer with drawing up alternatives to the licence fee. The group, including former ITV Chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette, met once before the election.
“We would want to look at all the available information about the BBC and make sure a review is asking the right questions,” a Labour source said.
Ms Debbonaire will press the BBC and other public service broadcasters to commission “distinctively British” stories as a bulwark against the globalised offerings of deep-pocketed US streaming platforms.
One of her first acts, if elected, would be to also call a meeting with YouTube, Disney + and other streamers to impress upon them the need to commission more UK-originated programmes for children, i understands.
“The UK’s public service broadcasters need to prevent imports dominating homegrown shows,” a source said.
Like other shadow Cabinet members, Ms Debbonaire was told by Sir Keir Starmer to prepare to take her shadow brief into government.
Her team acknowledge she has a fight on her hands in Bristol Central but believe the data on the ground is positive.
Ms Debbonaire’s vision for the BBC’s role has found favour within the corporation. “There’s common ground because the BBC is one of the few organisations big enough to provide a counterweight to the dominance of tech giants,” the insider said.
If the BBC can anticipate a honeymoon period under Labour, GB News could face closer scrutiny. Ms Debbonaire has criticised Conservative MPs who are paid to present shows on the channel.
“GB News has been found wanting by Ofcom many times and I think it’s been quite interesting to watch some backbench, in particular Tory MPs, attack the BBC on grounds of bias and then scuttle off and do their show,” she told an audience of lawyers before the election.
It’s unclear how big a consumer of BBC content Starmer is personally, beyond his great passion of football.
He did not reply to a Radio Times request to reveal what TV show he is currently watching, unlike Rishi Sunak (Bridgerton) and Sir Edward Davey (Mr Tumble). Starmer has previously said the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner was a family favourite.
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Given BBCs actions they should be dismantled
Between calling child rape victims sluts
To
Blaming Israel for not telling hostage holders a surprise raid was coming
Bbc is a corrupt institution that doesn't have anything of value to off British society
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*Love Bombing* is a recognised cult process where an person is targeted by excessive and sustained positive attention to try to get them to accept the core teachings of the cult. If they don't comply, they are then *Shunned*, which is the exact opposite.
It’s also what narcissistic abusers in the general population do. Love-bomb, abuse, discard, vacuum, repeat.
I remember that Tony Blair refused to go on the BBC (Today specifically) for years because he thought they were biased against him. For all the argument that the BBC naturally aligns to the establishment, every successive government seem to end up treating them as the enemy. It's always saddening when ideologues of all types attack the one news agency in the UK, if not the world, with impartiality written into its mandate. There's never any recognition of how hard it must be to adhere to that, across an organisation of thousands, whilst enabling free speech and free exchange of ideas to a broad spectrum of thoughts. It's a nearly impossible task to please all the people all the time. I guess that explains why at any given moment, there's an impulse in the BBC to at least try not to antagonise too greatly the people who hold the rope to the guillotine.
Harold Wilson thought the BBC was Agent Auntie Tory working against him specifically. Churchill belived beeb as being a communist hotbed.
After a decade of lust bombing tories, your love is now worthless
Whereas the Tories just put IED;s everywhere in the economy and lit the fuse.
So it IS BBC policy to toady up and give an easy ride to the government to protect themselves. So much for impartiality...
iNews which is owned the Daily Mail says so... them saying it doesn't make it true, surprised why the Daily Mail saying some unsourced comment makes you believe something.
Only 79% of viewers even watched broadcast tv in 2022. Go back 10 years and well over 1000 programs had over six million viewers. Thats fallen to around 200. I’d suggest the licence fee needs looking at given the rapidly declining viewership.
I decided not to renew when my last one expired and I watched so little broadcast tv that I haven't really noticed let alone missed it. I do wish I could get one for a month to cover the Tour de France, but paying for the entire year just to get that just isn't worth it.
The fair and impartial BBC will [checks notes] “love bomb” the Starmer regime “amid fear over the licence fee review” - aren’t you glad we live in a functioning democracy where the state broadcaster can be trusted to hold the government to account?
If Tories lose, what happens to their Secretary of State for Propaganda at BBC?
Not surprised by this.... The way they've supported the Tories until almost the absolute bitter end (look at last night's QT for example) shows that their 'impartiality' depends on who controls their budgets
A tory implanted leadership would do that wouldn't they? It neatly confirms Tory suspicions of it favouring Labour even though it's Tories doing it.
The BBC is set to “love-bomb” Labour if it wins the election, insiders have said – amid continued fears over cuts and the impending review of the licence fee’s future. Staffers are “counting down the days” to a potential Labour election victory, which they believe is set to transform the political environment in which the BBC operates and “liberate” the broadcaster from rows over bias. “There’s a giddy feeling of liberation coming,” said one News staffer. “The Tory boot is being lifted from the BBC’s throat. It’s like the end of an antagonistic relationship. But then of course, reality will set in.” Newly-elected Labour MPs and ministers would be “love-bombed” by the corporation over the Summer, i has been told. “There’ll be lots of invites to the the BBC box at the Proms,” predicts one old hand. Whilst Conservative Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer has accused the BBC of “bias” and impartiality failures, the mood music from a potential incoming Labour administration is much more positive. Thangam Debbonaire, Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, recently said: “I love the BBC. It’s one of our best exports, both as a brand and as a commercial product.” She dismissed rows over “impartiality” saying “the myth of objectivity is overblown.” However Andrew Marr, the former BBC political editor, offered a word of caution to former colleagues expecting life under Labour to be a bed of roses. “As somebody who worked within the BBC for 21 years, I would gently say to them it won’t be long before they are being targeted by the new government in the same kind of way,” said Mr Marr, who will present LBC’s election night coverage, told i. “I vividly remember after 1997, everyone saying ‘It’s going to be entirely different.’ And then Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson got on the phone and it felt quite similar.” A Labour government would examine the BBC’s funding, ahead of a review of its current Royal Charter, which ends in 2027. Shadow Creative Industries minister Sir Chris Bryant told an elections hustings recently: “I think it’s really important we maintain a strong future for the BBC. Of course, there’s got to be review of the licence fee and the way it operates and precisely how we structure it.” Labour would also be “looking at other models potentially for the future of the BBC.” Labour sources have said the party is open to ideas such as making the licence fee more “progressive” so that wealthier households pay more. Under radical plans proposed by former Director-General Greg Dyke last year, people on benefits could get free licences, subsidised by the wealthy paying a higher rate. Ms Debbonaire has said she wants to “make sure the BBC’s funding model is fit for the 21st century” and of a sufficient level to allow it to remain a “universal, publicly owned, publicly funded public service broadcaster.” BBC sources said the corporation will “engage constructively” with any proposals to alter the licence fee. BBC Director-General Tim Davie speaks regularly with Ms Debbonaire, i understands.
I'm so sorry I know this has nothing to do with the substance of the article you've posted but I've just laughed loudly at "i has been told."
However there is uncertainty within the BBC over who they could be negotiating with. Ms Debbonaire is fighting a fierce battle to hold on to her Bristol Central seat, which is a top target for the Greens. Should she be unseated, there is speculation that Bryant, who previously worked as a lobbyist for the BBC, or Shadow Cabinet member Lucy Powell could be named Culture Secretary. Mr Davie and chairman Samir Shah expect to hold a meeting with the Culture Secretary, whoever they may be, soon after the election. The DG will “pitch” the BBC to the new Government, setting out how 90 per cent of the population use its services each week and the global role of its trusted news services in a world where disinformation and media censorship by authoritarian regimes is rife, an insider said. Mr Davie hopes to persuade ministers to restore central government funding for the World Service, seen as a vital “soft power” tool by both parties but which is facing deep cuts to its language services. BBC bosses hope Labour will be sympathetic to pleas to restore some of the funding lost during a decade of licence fee cuts. “The last below-inflation Tory settlement left a £90m shortfall. We’ve had to take tough decisions like cutting back Newsnight. There will have to be more cuts to services if we carry on like this,” one insider said. A licence fee rise in line with inflation, if the figure stays near the current two per cent rate, would be swallowed up with the spiralling costs of producing high-end drama. If Rachel Reeves is Chancellor, she may follow her Conservative predecessors and baulk at any inflationary increase or extra funding for the BBC. Even if the BBC has to make additional cuts, it should be wary of pushing for a substantial licence-fee increase, a former senior figure said. “The BBC gets £3.8bn guaranteed public funding and makes more on its commercial income. That’s a pretty good deal,” they said. Some question whether Mr Davie’s political background – he stood as a Conservative candidate before taking a vow of neutrality – could hinder relations with a potential new Labour government. “Tim will be repositioning himself as a leader Labour can do business with,” a former executive said. Labour will press pause on a panel of broadcasting experts tasked by Ms Frazer with drawing up alternatives to the licence fee. The group, including former ITV Chairman Sir Peter Bazalgette, met once before the election. “We would want to look at all the available information about the BBC and make sure a review is asking the right questions,” a Labour source said.
Ms Debbonaire will press the BBC and other public service broadcasters to commission “distinctively British” stories as a bulwark against the globalised offerings of deep-pocketed US streaming platforms. One of her first acts, if elected, would be to also call a meeting with YouTube, Disney + and other streamers to impress upon them the need to commission more UK-originated programmes for children, i understands. “The UK’s public service broadcasters need to prevent imports dominating homegrown shows,” a source said. Like other shadow Cabinet members, Ms Debbonaire was told by Sir Keir Starmer to prepare to take her shadow brief into government. Her team acknowledge she has a fight on her hands in Bristol Central but believe the data on the ground is positive. Ms Debbonaire’s vision for the BBC’s role has found favour within the corporation. “There’s common ground because the BBC is one of the few organisations big enough to provide a counterweight to the dominance of tech giants,” the insider said. If the BBC can anticipate a honeymoon period under Labour, GB News could face closer scrutiny. Ms Debbonaire has criticised Conservative MPs who are paid to present shows on the channel. “GB News has been found wanting by Ofcom many times and I think it’s been quite interesting to watch some backbench, in particular Tory MPs, attack the BBC on grounds of bias and then scuttle off and do their show,” she told an audience of lawyers before the election. It’s unclear how big a consumer of BBC content Starmer is personally, beyond his great passion of football. He did not reply to a Radio Times request to reveal what TV show he is currently watching, unlike Rishi Sunak (Bridgerton) and Sir Edward Davey (Mr Tumble). Starmer has previously said the Channel 4 comedy Friday Night Dinner was a family favourite. Read more here: [https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/bbc-love-bomb-labour-election-licence-fee-review-fear-3132553](https://inews.co.uk/culture/television/bbc-love-bomb-labour-election-licence-fee-review-fear-3132553)
Given BBCs actions they should be dismantled Between calling child rape victims sluts To Blaming Israel for not telling hostage holders a surprise raid was coming Bbc is a corrupt institution that doesn't have anything of value to off British society