Toby Earle 🇺🇦
@tobyontv.bsky.social
TV critic, Greenlit podcast creator/host, still trying to write a book
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Toby Earle 🇺🇦
@tobyontv.bsky.social
· Jan 24
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The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
New piece from me.
open.substack.com/pub/goodalla...
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Celebrity Traitors but it’s the bbc board and we all get to vote *that* right-wing guy off, overnight ratings of 78 million
November 10, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Celebrity Traitors but it’s the bbc board and we all get to vote *that* right-wing guy off, overnight ratings of 78 million
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
November 10, 2025 at 4:25 PM
‘I once planned to sue the bbc for suggesting I encouraged an insurrection the time I encouraged an insurrection on live tv’
The new Caroline Flack documentary on Disney+, which follows her mum, Chris, as she unpicks why her daughter was charged - and why the tabloids tore her to shreds - is full of details that leave you stunned. As much as it’s about how Caroline’s life was wrecked, it’s about how anyone’s could be
November 10, 2025 at 4:13 PM
The new Caroline Flack documentary on Disney+, which follows her mum, Chris, as she unpicks why her daughter was charged - and why the tabloids tore her to shreds - is full of details that leave you stunned. As much as it’s about how Caroline’s life was wrecked, it’s about how anyone’s could be
one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism
November 10, 2025 at 1:38 PM
one mad thing about this bbc thing is Boris Johnson - B O R I S J O H N S O N - parping on about facts & quality journalism
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There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 PM
There are many subtle and complex arguments one can have about the future of the BBC — but I guarantee you that no other channel or streaming service will be as committed to factual programming, children’s education, history shows, religious discussion, poetry, arts, or state of the nation debate
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
Michael Prescott was ‘“shocked” that after an hour-long Panorama documentary dealing with Trump and the January 6 insurgency, there was no “similar, balancing” programme about Kamala Harris.’
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
More read about the machinations between the BBC resignations, the more worrying it becomes
The departure of Tim Davie and Deborah Turness means the BBC is leaderless when it needs leadership more than ever. Where are the people at the head of the BBC standing up for it?
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
November 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
This is unbelievable. Just a complete lack of belief in objectivity. And the BBC fucking caved to it
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I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
November 10, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I do like how, in the bit of Prescott's memo where he criticises the BBC for editing together different parts of Trump's speech, his own quote of "what Trump actually said" is... edited together from different parts of his speech.
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One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
November 10, 2025 at 8:40 AM
One thing not being said - indeed, I think everyone misses this - but the requirement for the BBC to show impartiality and balance relates to the politics of *this* country, there’s no requirement to show some mythical balance globally, only to report the truth without fear or favour.
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twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
I'm guessing the BBC 'scandal' has been big on X this week as this was the first I had heard of it...
November 9, 2025 at 8:17 PM
twitter being bought and turned into a propaganda machine for fascism, which is directly pumped into every journalist in the world's brain, is one of the worst things to happen in the last few years. we might not survive it.
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Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
November 9, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Be clear, the American far right are coming for British democracy.
absolute nightmare fuel on Antiques Roadshow
November 9, 2025 at 8:12 PM
absolute nightmare fuel on Antiques Roadshow
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Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit.
That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.
That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.
November 9, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Neither Tim Davie nor Deborah Turness incited an insurrection against the US Capitol. Congressman didn’t have to flee for their lives because of a BBC Panorama edit.
That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.
That all happened because of President Donald Trump. If he didn’t resign, it’s truly *insane* that anyone else does.
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any rival media org celebrating the defenestration of tim davie should delete all its traitors content, just to prove how much they disapprove of the bbc
November 9, 2025 at 7:21 PM
any rival media org celebrating the defenestration of tim davie should delete all its traitors content, just to prove how much they disapprove of the bbc
there is only one pick for DG - former Leeds United frontman Arthur Graham
November 9, 2025 at 7:14 PM
there is only one pick for DG - former Leeds United frontman Arthur Graham
all that time Davie attempted to placate the right & here we are, showing how they’ll never be happy
November 9, 2025 at 7:03 PM
all that time Davie attempted to placate the right & here we are, showing how they’ll never be happy
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There's all sorts of nuance here but jfc, the culmination of it has ultimately come from the right-wing press misrepresenting and 'internal report' and then the son of the POTUS criticising it.
Idiotic.
Idiotic.
November 9, 2025 at 6:50 PM
There's all sorts of nuance here but jfc, the culmination of it has ultimately come from the right-wing press misrepresenting and 'internal report' and then the son of the POTUS criticising it.
Idiotic.
Idiotic.
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It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
November 9, 2025 at 6:46 PM
It’s ironic to resign over editing a bunch of lies to reflect the truth.
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“WE REMEM WILL BEP THEM”
November 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
“WE REMEM WILL BEP THEM”
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A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
November 8, 2025 at 8:39 AM
A national newspaper journalist went on a British TV channel to claim police stats showed asylum-seekers committed 44% of sex crimes in Dorset.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
This shocking claim was treated as fact by the channel which promoted the clip on social media where it was amplified by AI.
Except... it's bollocks.
‘People are sick of experts’: the air disaster edition
Sean Duffy: "The secretary of war texted me yesterday and said, 'I might have some air traffic controllers. If you could use them, I'm gonna offer them to you.' I don't know that I can, Jake, because they're not certified in the airspaces that we need them. But if I can, I'm going to use them."
November 9, 2025 at 3:00 PM
‘People are sick of experts’: the air disaster edition