Talk:Criticism of the BBC
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Quality of BBC journalism in decline
editAside from the old and well-worn issues of perceived bias etc, etc, in recent years the quality of the journalism on the BBC News Website has degraded significantly. From typos to tabloid themes, and from inappropriate ads to increased advertorials, the BBC site is now awash with click bait slop.
Does anyone want to do a section on this? Reddit is good source for examples on this theme. 202.138.32.160 (talk) 14:13, 28 September 2025 (UTC)
- TardBBC was murdered in the mid-80s. The regime stooge posing as the BBC is better called CommericalPrivateEquitybbc, a simulacrum. Regards Keith-264 (talk) 14:22, 28 October 2025 (UTC)
Excessive purge?
editThe article has had a lot of material removed (diff) which was (apparently) sourced to critical commentary. Where the criticism comes from notable people such sourcing might be acceptable and the extent of the removal seemed overaggressive to me. When I see a lot of content being removed then I tend to revert pending discussion but when I tried to verify the "Stateless Person's Broadcasting Corporation" quote I came up blank which made me think again. Probably at least some, maybe most, of the removals are valid and I won't revert. Nonetheless, it is quite a lot so I invite people to look at what was removed and see if any of it should be brought back, possibly with better sourcing. --DanielRigal (talk) 00:47, 8 November 2025 (UTC)
November 2025
editThe following discussion is closed. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.
Around half of references in the Thailand: The Dark Side of Paradise article focus about its critism in Thailand. (The rest is mostly arguably routine coverage of the series) Thus I propose that article be merged into this article. 🐲Jothefiredragon🔥talk🧨contributions✨log🐉 02:53, 14 November 2025 (UTC)
- Oppose: I don't think it should be merged but i definitely think information on the case should be added to the article. Rockwizfan (talk) 12:01, 22 December 2025 (UTC)