EDIT: Sorry all, I'm going to turn off notifications for this thread since automod spams all of my comments with BBC Facts.
When BBC NEWS do something stupid or terfy or both sidesy it makes me crazy to see the post titles here saying "The BBC did X..."
I used to work for BBC Writers Room, all we did was try to get people writing jobs on Casualty and shit...
It's the Tory war on public ownership 101. They've done all they can to directly defund the BBC by making them pay for the world service and over 75s license fee. The license fee was frozen for most of the last decade and is set to be frozen again next year.
They've done all they can to defund it, all that is left is to discredit it. BBC News is a dumpster fire right now, no question. Destroying a flagship department (that was inconveniently tasked with holding them to account) was a no brainer for them. Look at what they're trying to do to Channel 4.
When people think "BBC" they think "News." But it's so much more. It's ad free, diverse kids programs. It's minority language programming, it's regional programming (radio and TV). It's educational programming for families who can't afford tutors. It's training and industry access for people like me from working class backgrounds.
It's far from perfect, but, like our public health service, our public broadcasters are worth saving.
By all means boycott BBC News (I do) but if you consume BBC content (radio, drama, comedy, anything) and can afford a licence fee I urge you to pay it.
Cancelling your TV License won't put an end to BBC News. They'll shutter every single other part of the BBC first, because, even if it ends up being propped up by endowments like NPR and PBS, a tame BBC News is the only part of the corporation that is of any value to the Tories.
All it took was an editorial nudge to one department, now The Tories are wanking themselves to death watching leftists willingly defund their public broadcaster.
So... If you don't want to answer is ok, but, the other day I saw a post of "Irene scandal" and I remember that allegedly she said some mean things to a stylist, like she was disagreeing with the stylist choices being too harsh with that stylist... And the western k internet blew up... So, my doubt is, was that so bad to begin some kind of cancel crusade against Irene? Is the internet too obsessed with cancelling everything? Am I too old to follow everything and use that much energy in cancelling any mean action?
Thanks in advance, and sorry if I sound insensitive I am Spanish speaker so I may not use the correct words.
"He's a centrist" is often used when someone questions a claim made by someone. Indeed, when you are debating a political topic, it is often effective to talk about how centrists feel about it. However, this kind of action ignores something critical. Centrism and Impartiality are not the same, at least if we limit centrism to self-proclaimed centrists and people who try to balance their views, the common indicators of centrists.
First off, what is Impartiality?
According to google, Impartiality is
> equal treatment of all rivals or disputants; fairness.
So it means to not give one argument, debater, etc an advantage in the debate. To just have them duke it out without outsiders changing how good they are.
But that definition is often misread as acting as if the given arguments/debaters/etc are equally valid, or at least that "The truth Lies in the middle". This is often what centrists do.
Centrists try to even out the strength of the arguments, to intentionally reduce the badness of one of them and to reduce the goodness of the other. This can be done by simply comparing them seriously, such as comparing being an idiot and being a democracy-destroying megalomaniac are similar to any degree ("I don't like Modi but Rahul Gandhi is not really an improvement")
Another trick often used by Centrists is to play both extremes. This works extremely well at winning you the trust of people on the moderate side of both views, and moving them towards the center, but the fact is that that entails pretending that something bad is actually good just for the sake of balancing out another view you put out. Siding with the left on worker rights and the right on vaccine safety is not Impartiality, but it is something centrist often do. (Not literally, this is an analogy, you'd be hard pressed to find a centrist who disagrees with Elon Musk's saying "There's a debate around the second jab for the elderly")
Of course, this is not to claim that the idea of centrism is opposed to impartiality, but modern self-acclaimed centrists often are. The fact is, in the modern world, the left is correct about far more issues than the right, and equating them both is stupidity to the highest degree, and the right winger can cope.
Hi all! I just got accepted into an AA/AO job, very excited to start working at the civil service. I did an internship previously, which was really cool. Was hoping for HEO (am a university graduate), but I will take what I can get now and move up later.
I have some questions regarding impartiality and the rules surrounding civil servants expressing political opinions, as I am a rather opinionated person who is involved in many activist circles and such. I post a lot of politically inclined things online, though mostly anonymously. I've read through the civil service code but it's still confusing. Hence, some questions:
- Does the civil service care what I say if it's anonymous? How strict should I be about being anonymous if expressing opinions on matters of policy?
- Is it fine to tell people who know me in real life about my job (if they also know about activism stuff I do)?
- Does the civil service care about stuff that I have done while not working there? E.g. if I work in civil service for a while, then work for a campaigning charity of something and later want to come back to civil service, would me having worked in a campaigning position be an issue?
- Can I go to protests? If I get arrested for protesting something, will I get into extra bad trouble at work? (I don't go looking for trouble, but you never know, I got threatened with arrest simply for being in a place once.)
Sorry if some of these questions are silly. I'm trying to reconcile those two parts of my life right now. Cheers for any help!
They always did lean to the right but now...
>New Politico Owner Says Will Enforce pro-Israel Policy
Axel Springer's CEO makes clear that tenets such as support for Israel's right to exist 'apply to every employee of our company,' even if they won't have to pledge this in writing
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/new-politico-owner-says-will-enforce-pro-israel-policy-1.10301503
>At Axel Springer, Politico’s New Owner, Allegations of Sex, Lies and a Secret Payment
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/17/business/media/axel-springer-bild-julian-reichelt.html
