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Related: About this forumBBC should reflect more 'extreme' views
The report, commissioned by the BBC Trust, examined how the corporation reflects views from across the UK.
It found the BBC had been "slow" to catch up with public opinion on areas such as immigration and the EU.
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The report suggested that the audience of Question Time should be chosen from a wider group, rather than just BBC viewers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-23159035
Christ, why would they want more nutters? And people who don't watch the BBC are typically far-right "more like Bolshevik Broadcasting Corporation" types.
T_i_B
(14,738 posts)......the more the news will end up more like the Jeremy Kyle show.
There's too many extremist views being aired on current affairs shows as it is. Moderate views many not be as entertaining, may not pander to certain prejudices but at the end of the day, we need the grey areas on many issues to be explained a lot more thoroughly and extremists on all sides tend not to be very good at that.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Remember Nick Griffin's appearance on Question Time?
The obsession that some people have with immigration and the EU seems to be very tabloid-led. The BBC doesn't need to become another version of the nutty tabloids. Or for that matter of the Oxford Union, which, having invited Nick Griffin and David Irving a few years ago, now seems to be courting further outrage by inviting Lennon of the EDL. (Incidentally I wonder how many others of my generation initially reacted to the headline about the Oxford Union inviting Lennon with 'How can they invite John Lennon when he's dead?')
Of course, Fox News makes a habit of including insane 'contributors'. I do not want the Beeb to go down that route!
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)I'm pretty sure that John Lennon would be leading mass rallies against the EDL AND the BNP if he were still around today.
LeftishBrit
(41,208 posts)Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, definitely no relation to John Lennon. Also calls himself Tommy Robinson, and has a couple of other pseudonyms.
Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Probably someone thinks that that nice Mr. Farrage isn't getting enough air time.