I guess it depends on what they mean by "go easy". Tough questions need to be asked but we don't need the badgering and hectoring we got during the election when some interviewers weren't even giving the politician time to answer. I got thoroughly fed up with that Paxman style of interview where it becomes all about the interviewer and not the interviewee.

The BBC also has to be sensitive to the subject matter, people dying in their thousands and some journalist show boating.

But yes they still need to ask the tough questions.

One more point

They just can't help themselves can they?

The other day I made the point (on the coronavirus thread I think) that the BBC ruined a perfectly good story about the shambolic testing process by quoting an essential worker who turned out to be a Poundland manager, apparently they couldn't find a doctor or a nurse.

Monday night Panorama ran a damming story about the PPE crisis, fair enough I am not going to defend the government, and who did they use to make their point? Yup 5 people who had close ties to the Labour Party (none of this mentioned in the program of course).

This is an important story and for once even non Labour party supporters would agree the government has got it wrong. In that case why have they probably breached broadcasting guideline and produced a biased program when it wasn't necessary. I would be amazed if they couldn't have find a more balanced group who would have said the same thing but no the BBC just loves their friends on the left.

Now the story will become about BBC bias, idiots.

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Edited by Badger11 (30 Apr 2020 8.21am)

One more point

Eloped?

I remember seeing John Pienaar at the Cup final wearing red and blue face paint. Which was nice.

Laura Kuinsberg was on last night.

Living down here does have some advantages. At least you can see them cry.

I was thinking that yesterday so did a bit of checking. Willo hasn't been online for nearly a fortnight but his alter ego Trolley was on the BBS yesterday so he's obviously OK

C'mon YT, you know you would, all you need is a wet flannel, oh, & dont lick.

This operation, will make the 'Charge Of The Light Brigade' seem like a simple military exercise.

disinfect your keyboard before you catch an infection and turn into Gary Linekar

Kayla did Anfield & Old Trafford

'Father and son charged with murder of US black jogger' [Link]

What has the guy's race got to do with it?

The article says: "Mr Arbery's mother, Wanda Cooper Jones, said police told her after the shooting that her son had been involved in a burglary before the incident, but the family say they do not believe the keen jogger had committed a crime."

Unless I've totally missed the racist intent, this is pretty irresponsible race baiting by the BBC.

Why doesn't this story say have 'Kurdish' or 'white' in this headline, for example?

'South Yorkshire grooming gang guilty of raping girl' [Link]

PS I'm not trying to get into a Muslim thing, just noting the leftist double standard on race in the media AGAIN.

Edited by Penge Eagle (08 May 2020 2.40pm)

Would’ve thought the idea was to have something colourful which children could draw rather than steal anyone’s identity.
Maybe we should be offended at the Canadian Photonics Fabrication Centre for stealing our identity.

Likewise: RIP Lee Rigby. Now, I wonder why this is being ignored by the BBC.

Red and Blue Army!