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Really appreciate how coherent and incisive you are in explaining our frustrations and highlighting the kingdom of the disingenuous.

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Thank you, Vojin. I try!

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Excellent forensic piece, Mic.

The BBC is being damaged on three fronts. First, by chipping away at its finances. Second, by endless whingeing about bias ('leftie' bias, weirdly!). Third, by the sheer stumbling incompetence of your average Tory hatchet-man, now infiltrating the management: sooner or later, everything they touch turns to dust and ashes....

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Thank you. Your analysis is accurate.

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That was pretty much my summary whenever the Lineker thing came up in conversation:

"Everything they (the Tories) touch turns to shit."

If anything good comes of it, it could be that more people will surely see that that statement is true.

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That’s a terrific piece of work, Mic. Detailed in away nobody else seems to want to tackle. The conclusions are immensely sad, but really help us to understand how and why BBC news has got itself, and been pushed into such a godawful mess.

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Thank you, Peter. This one was quite bruising to write.

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I can imagine!

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Hasn't the BBC been forced to admit the Panorama episode was misleading? I'm sure I saw something about that...

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It did. But it was kind of a TKO.

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