I'm Really Starting to Hate the BBC and Their Acts of Bad Faith

It's a Friday and I'm watching the news. I don't usually choose to watch the news because I'm starting to hate the BBC.

It's the BBC Breakfast Show and I'm tuning in to see what's going on in the world.

At this point I have been watching the show for about an hour whilst drinking some coffee and what I have seen is simply appalling.

As we know, there is a huge war going on in Iran.

Children are being bombed, people are being killed, countries are being levelled and destroyed.

There are explosives flying everywhere and soldiers in their thousands are being deployed from every angle.

The world is constantly waiting to see what their leaders will say, whether they are joining the war effort or whether they are staying put.

How much their gas prices will increase?

Will this change the price of food and by how much?

Can the people living in rural areas still afford to heat and light their homes?

And yet, the BBC seems to think that radio silence is a great idea today.

So far there has been a lot of nothing going on when it comes to the BBC Breakfast Show...

There has been a report of a bunch of 40-something year old middle-class white women on a journey of feminist self-discovery in which they make terrible rock music about ageing and cellulite. This lasted some fifteen minutes and never have I ever wanted to smash up my television more. Nobody cares about this.

There has been an interview with a country singer from the UK who is trying to desperately pretend like he's famous and people recongise him out in the real world. He keeps repeating how 'in touch' his songs are with his past, present and future. It is effectively the epitome of boredom. Nobody gives a damn about this.

(There's also a report of badgers being shot and though I have empathy, this is more suited to a Facebook story rather than something that should take up live news time).

But nothing about the war.

But then there's something else - an imbalance.

An imbalance in reporting and how timing is allocated.

So you're telling me that the middle-class white woman feminist self-discovery bullshit gets fifteen minutes but a big shoplifting nightmare that happened in South London gets less than five minutes and the war in Iran gets nothing?

I can almost guarantee you with all the issues we have today, there is not a single person alive who cares about those women.

There isn't a person existing who cares about the country singer pretending like he's famous and doing a humble brag for far too long.

There are very many people though, who care about how their lives are being impacted by America's ego-trip of a war.

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Hopefully, you understand this is a different kind of 'unpopular opinion'.

But the more you look, the more you see.

The BBC is trying to distract you from the real news.

And now, ten minutes of garden centres and planting seeds...

But still nothing about the war in Iran.

95 minutes so far...