It's the politcal bias I find so utterly objectionable. It goes right through from top to bottom - in all aspects of their politcal coverage, but esp in respect of Europe and the Isreali/Palestinian divide. Any newscasting service, but ESP a national one paid for by a levy, should make every effort to be scrupulously unbiased. I remember it began with TWTWTW; and the sneering and jeering which started there [there hadn't really been any before in respect of national politicians] gradually eased its way over into mainstream political and news programmes. That 'boshy student' way of reacting to everyone and everything became entrenched.
A few years ago the Beeb sacked almost everyone over the age of 50, and most of the staff thereafter were under 35. They also only recruit from the Guardian media pages [or internally], and what with one policy and another as regards recruitment, and the efforts of Greg Dyke to 'modernise', they've ended up with a relentlessly and exclusively 'politcally correct' staff who seem incapable of thinking for themselves. Dissidents were simply forced out. Meanwhile the management seem to think it's their duty to run after every techological fad, and to compete with the commercially succesful but braindead offerings of ITV and Channel 4.
The end result of all these things has been not just the relentelss dumbing-down of programming, and the eradication of political objectivity, but a complete loss of moral compass and of all intellectual and moral integrity. It's just about the saddest thing which happened in the media in my lifetime, even worse than the sale of The Times to Rupert Murdoch - and it's been a national disaster.
But .....Aint a lot of the back ground staff also gay???????