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There has been a lot of discussion about this due to a recent report that the BBC has a "liberal" agenda.

For my part, I just look at their recent output. Endless visits to the Hay on Wye Literary Festival to listen to droning bores; wall to wall coverage of Glastonbury mud.

So, the BBC is run by ageing hippies whose parents paid for them to go to
Oxbridge.

And Top Gear is viewed as beyond the pale. Great. Really represents the license payer doesn't it.

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Malcolm W.
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On BBC3, with some coverage on BBC2. But it gets my vote, fantastic one weekend a year coverage
Bring on the V Festival.

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For my part, I just look at their recent output. Endless visits to the Hay on Wye Literary Festival to listen to droning bores; wall to wall coverage of Glastonbury mud.

Depends if you like or don't like things literary and/or Glastonbury. So the BBC is biased because it puts out programmes on subjects that don't interest you.
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So, the BBC is run by ageing hippies whose parents paid for them to go to
Oxbridge.

I think you will find that the average age of BBC executives is about 40. So about 20 years too young to be 'ageing Hippies'

And Top Gear is viewed as beyond the pale. So that is why the BBC spends thousands making it and than transmits it in the peak time Sunday night slot??...

I can see my deliberately provocative post on this subject has had very few responses.

The 5 hours per day from Glastonbury on BBC2, 5 hours on BBC3 and 2 hours on BBC4 just seems too much to me. (It's almost as much as snooker. ) The BBC put on loads of stuff I am not interested in but the reverence accorded to this festival bemuses me.

OK, OK, it's the children of the hippies who run the BBC.

Top Gear (which is only on for a few weeks each year) has become a parody of itself these days and isn't a motoring programme any more. It is, however, very popular for the non-PC views expressed. I think people see it as a reality check amongst a sea of wishy washy opinions.

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Malcolm W.
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The BBC is obviously biased in a left-liberal sense.

How often are Euro-sceptics or climate change sceptics given anything remotely resembling a fair hearing?

See this news report:

BBC viewers angered by its 'innate liberal bias'

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Deliberately provocative? Surely not...

I think most of the Hay-on-Wye coverage was on Sky ('Hay on Sky')

Perhaps as you say that number of hours of Glastonbury or Snooker is too much, but then how much is too much? If I was passionate about snooker which I am not, I might be more than happy. I think it is a fact that these big events are very expensive to cover in terms of technical resouces and people, so the more hours of output they can derive the cheaper the cost per hour and as the BBC, like all major organisations these days is run by bean counters, that is what results.

Regards

Roger

Owning a 4x4 to run solely on urban roads bemuses me, but some folks do and hey we can still (just about) pretty much make our own choices in these things.
I love music festivals, and until you've been to one I think its hard to see the attraction, particualrly when its wet, as Glastonbury traditionally is and as V was last year
And if you think Glastonbury and snooker are bad, wait until tomorrow - its Wimbledon fortnight, they've just said on telly there will be 160 hrs coverage More rain and possibly old Cliff singing again Think I'll exercise the power of the OFF mode on my telly - or get outside on the bike!
Ooohh, Glastonbury is starting again. Wonder who is on now.

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Bike? It's gonna piss down!