Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "BBC Sport Crisis: Scandalous bias exposed by impartiality row" video.

  1. Hang on? Is it true to say that the BBC are, “afraid of offending the Tories,” when the current Chair of the BBC, who was recently appointed by Boris Johnson, and was one of their biggest donors? Isn’t more accurate to say the BBC is the Tory Party? Apart from all of those other senior leadership positions you pointed out, we’re now hearing from Fiona Bruce shilling on the platform of the BBC’s flagship news debate show, for Boris Johnson’s recommendation of a gang for wife abusing daddy, again as you pointed out. The double standard is quite shocking but we can all be glad that they are being exposed. They seem to think that they have covered themselves by allowing a quota of left wing, or left of centre, comedy, when we all know that their real reason for that is just that right wing comedy isn’t funny. After all, who wants to see a sitcom about border patrol police, or supervisors of an internment camp in Dover or Kent, belittling minorities and laughing about cavity searches? That would be obscene. I just hope we get results from this?
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  2. My first visit to your channel and I have to say you put it all rather succinctly and with a touch of very British humour, which I enjoyed. Thanks for that. Not long ago I saw Andrew Marr’s LBC YouTube video about the appointment of this Tory donor, Sharp, to the Chairship of the BBC. I thought, “Oh great. He’ll have an insight into how this corruption has actually existed since the inception of the BBC and will be able to speak to how, though it may have been a suitable system for the privileged classes of the 1930’s, it was outdated by the 1960’s and is unfit for purpose today.” I was SO SHOCKED and disappointed to discover that what he meant by the strap line printed on the video’s thumbnail, “This Story Is Toxic,” was that he was going to excuse himself from even discussing the story, let alone investigating it, or even interviewing anyone about it! What sickened me most was the excuse he proffered. “Well, they’ve always appointed BBC Chairs like this anyway.” The very thing I saw as DAMNING in a thinking person’s eyes, was the very thing that he saw as a plausible excuse for not doing his well paid job! But, of course, I’m sure his decision had nothing to do with all those residual payments he gets from his BBC published books and documentary series’, right? And if I was in a room with him now, I’d be telling him that the Lineker story is precisely the sort of self harm that people like him had a responsibility to help the BBC avoid! This is as much his fault as any other player in this drama, because he is happy to support the Tories with his complicity and silence, whilst getting to sound all righteous and indignant on the very same issues that Lineker is not allowed to speak of. It seems hypocrisy and double standards have become a way of life in the BBC, and for those who still rely on their connections there?
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