There seems to be a clear pattern of negative posts about the BBC. Certain accounts are at it on a daily basis. I find myself wondering why.
Some motives for such behaviour I could think of are:
- The BBC wrote a story that hurt them
- Reporting did not reinforce their world view
- They expected the BBC to be perfect and inevitable failures to meet that standard lead to disappointment
- They found the style of reporting annoying
- Perhaps some reporters were annoying
I’m sure that list is nowhere near exhaustive as my imagination is rather limited.
A cynic might think that something deeper is going on, for example, a systematic campaign to erode trust in the BBC. Perhaps such a campaign is not just limited to feddit.uk communities, as mightily influential as they are, and could be happening across social media.
Such a cynical person might further wonder what groups, organisations, or perhaps even states with well resourced intelligence organisations might want to mount such a campaign.
I’m not a cynic, and as mentioned don’t have much of an imagination, so such thoughts don’t even cross my mind.
I’m simply wondering why some people hate the BBC so much. For me it, with all its failings, is one of the best public broadcasting organisations in the world.
In Canada we have the same issue with the CBC.
The CBC also deserves criticism especially for its coverage of Israel, but the majority of the criticism comes from the right wing about CBC’s “bias”.
Now the CBC is biased, it is a liberal institution that ultimately works to reinforce the state, but that’s not the claim from the right wing. The claim from the right wing is that the CBC is a left wing institution that cannot be trusted.
With those people and criticisms, this is absolutely a move to erode trust in the public broadcaster, dismantle it, and allow fully privatised media like the USA. People like Rupert Murdoch and other billionaires in media absolutely want this. They want the mainstream right wing propaganda outlets to be the “default” (SKY news, etc in the UK) and smaller, hard right outlets to be the alternative.
The UK is facing privatisation of the NHS and multiple other institutions right now, you should expect that they’re working to privatise the BBC. For all the BBCs faults, public broadcasters are absolutely a force for (not good maybe) moderation in media. They should continue to exist, and they should be improved to further moderate/improve all media.