Justin Webb says there is 'context' for racist violence on BBC Radio 4 Today
Justin Webb now stating as fact that in Northern Ireland - and across the U.K. - for years people ‘have been able to come here and get access to services’ that local people can’t Is there any evidence for this? Why is a presenter on the BBC stating this as fact?
Robert Saunders475Another item began with a declaration (to paraphrase) that "we keep being told that violent crime is falling, but it doesn't feel like that". As if how people "feel" is just an independent variable to which the news has to respond, rather than something that inaccurate reporting helps to shape.
Beta Papa87Because BBC editorial policy is right wing. Example- yesterday they led with a quote from the leader of a far right fringe party with 3% support.
Dr Julie Doughty46surprisingly, R4 this week had a programme (More or Less) that debunked a report by a 'right leaning' thinktank about employment rates for young people, as 'nonsense'. Falsely claimed a rate of 27:1 (!) for non UK born:UK born. BBC needs more of that sort of reporting.
antimogi.bsky.social46Justin Webb, a right wing bigot who identifies as an impartial journalist.
Helen41Because Justin Webb is a liar, and holds pretty extreme far right views. He also claimed - to a BBC guest - that trans suicide rates were exaggerated. His source was Transgender Trend.
Kate24Justin Webb is a fascist and its high time people started to recognise that. The man is an odious anti trans campaigner.
David24No it’s not fact it’s a perception. As I live in Belfast I hear this perception from both staff and customers alike.
Fionna O’Leary21Because it is Justin Webb
Rob Miller12Webb is a fascist or at least a fascist enabler. He can't wait to be appointed head of propaganda by Farage or Lowe. Massive transphobe too.
cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social12Because the BBC is a tool of class power. Manned at the top almost entirely by privately educated and overpaid tossers who'll go which ever way the low-tax, low-regulations wind is blowing.
❄️ endofthenight99 ❄️🏳️🌈11And we collectively pay the BBC for this kind of biased reporting of facts
PJ11That’s why we are where we are, it’s driven narratives by a complicit right media with right wing journalists for right wing owners. They stay quiet when it’s a white perpetrator or white domestic abuser, or white kiddy fiddler 🤬
Dave9This is why I have pretty much stopped using the BBC as a news channel. There's a layer of dead wood there that was installed during the tory years and it needs to be turfed out.
Dr Jennifer Jones8I'm old enough to remember when journalists and broadcasters understood that language matters. Refusing to say that arsonist/far-right terrorists torched those houses is criminally bad reporting. We cannot let them normalise violence like this – that way US-style madness lies.
fionnuala4000.bsky.social8The British commentariat class are bringing far-right conspiracist talking points into mainstream discussion.
Michael Cleary7Because he’s a right wing goon and has been for at least a decade
Jenn de Jeune6Justin has been a self-righteous opinionated idiot for quite some time, he has been virulently anti Trans for years & never knowingly let an opportunity pass to platform his anti Trans opinions on R4 Today. No reason to believe he would behave any differently for anything else.
Chris Hutchings #ChoirsForClimate5The only credible example of this would be English classes! And that's because local people don't need them! (Insert obvious cheap joke hre)
Cora Peeta M 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇦🇶🇺🇳5Any exact quotes we can feed into the pointless complaint process without having to listen to him actually talking on catchup?
Pete Fraser5It was a wholly disgraceful segment. I’ve never made a complaint to the BBC til today.
Phil Jones' body double5"They are on a permanent holiday living in luxurious hotel accommodation we can't afford FOR FREE" Oh, you might want to read this if you haven't already. bsky.app/profile/anoo...
Vivienne4It just isn’t true. If they’re lucky they get the same access to services.
RW4This same propaganda is used here in the States, with the same repetition from the media. Maga believes it is fact that immigrants get free healthcare and other benefits, which is not true at all.
Ben Sowton4Remember the days of John Humphries and Brian Redhead? Fondly. Now we have 2 right wing propagandists. It’s shameful
Pete Marchetto3I used to like Justin Webb. He seemed one of the fairest of reporters. I don't know if he's changed, I've changed, or circumstances have changed, but it's troubling to read things like this.
Vin Totton3been saying for some time that BBC is full of reporters - 'he said, she said' and not journalists. Peter you need to apply!
Todd Kendall3Justin Webb is one of the reasons Today is unlistenable. Before he was posted to the US he seemed a genuinely even-handed BBC type. Something seems to have happened to him.
robod99.bsky.social3Didn't you know local councils reserve a stock of luxury mansions for migrants which is why your granny can't get a flat. There's also a secret NHS just for migrants, no problem getting appointments there. Repetition > Facts.
Nick O’D3The Today Programme has gone down and down and down. Opinion presented as fact. Hearsay presented as fact. Bollocks like this “accessing services that local people can’t “ being presented as fact. It’s just not serious anymore. Who are they trying to emulate? LBC?
Cordelia de Chair3I hear it often from people at bus stops, people serving me in Co-op. Are they getting the same memo on Facebook?
Jack Liu3Justin Webb is a right wing provocateur and the sooner this is understood the better.
all-a-mort.bsky.social3The BBC is now just GB News wearing an expensive suit.
Whatever it is, I didn't do it.2They're now pandering to the likes of Bari Weiss, and her puppeteer and thirty four time felon. Lay down with dogs and all that.
Nicki Stephens2🧵 As a former LA employee working in the Homeless Prevention Service, I would say that temporary housing has to be offered to anyone who is seeking asylum ( I use the term housing loosely). The accommodation is generally sub- standard. I should add that in my long and varied experience within
Alan Pennie 2Probably be a good idea to turn The BBC off for a while.
Elinor Elliot2Webb is an abysmal journalist. Lazy, reactionary views that he's inexplicably allowed to leak into his interviews.
🦋Tristra🦋2Because lying gets views and there are no consequences if you are lying about a group most people hate
Elon Musk is an antisemite. Elon Musk is a White supremacist. Elon Musk wants the UK to be destroyed by a civil war. Elon Musk distributes of sexualized images of kids. Elon Musk is very rich, so none of the above matters. #R4Today
gingergem.bsky.social7Let's hope he chokes to death on all the money
BeanieCLE13With his “doge” cuts, it is estimated that over 300,000 children have already died from lifesaving care he and his 20 year old lackeys thought were wasteful. He has committed crimes against humanity.
LovePet 🌳🪷🐝🦉🐋🐘🦮2Elon is also a HOSTILE FOREIGN AGENT OF PUTINS
Mr K2Stephen Yaxley-Lennon) recently travelled to Moscow, where he met up Errol Musk. The man who got his step daughter pregnant X2 Robinson was there to get paid & take instructions. He said Putin is a wonderful guy who just wants Ukraine nothing else. So Reform council banned Ukrainian flags & Pride 💡
RotorRat2Elon musk is a nazi
Michael Corthell2A sharp, satirical takedown of obscene wealth, DOGE, USAID cuts, and the tillionaire dream of escaping Earth while making life harder for people still trying to survive on it. essayx.substack.com/p/the-trilli...
Ivana Newgrave2So why I am subsidizing Elon Musk, to become the first Trillionaire? They’re sending up his Nazi SpaceX Rockets every other week, here from the Central Coast of California. Not from Elon personal launchpads. From Vandenberg MILITARY BASE. Taxpayers money💰💰 Fuck this Nazi election thief #DeportElon
Blasé Boylan2You would think a guy that rich wouldn't have so much hate at his core, provng money solves nothing.
Why is #r4today promoting Elon Musk as some sort of saviour of society when in fact he’s probably the most dangerously negative influence on world politics and global security in existence….? 🤷🏻♂️🙄😒
Mr K11Because like LBC promoting Farage with Nick Ferrari doing an interview to make him appear more human, the BBC are covertly hanging on to anything Musk says, deep down you all know why.
Simon James6It's been doing it for years - while rarely if ever mentioning his evil twin, Peter Thiel.
Svartmetall6Because the BBC has been staunchly pro-right-wing for the last 15 or so years...? Look at the way they gave far more airtime to Farage than everyone else combined pre-Brexit, look at the way they constantly platform the scum of Reform now...BBC stands for Broadcasting By Conservatives.
🔵real opposition🇺🇸🇪🇸🇺🇦5He’s the villain in our history
Stewart Parsons5Absolutely. Utterly one eyed feature. For whom, for why?
debnicktom.bsky.social3Because the BBC has been usurped by the far right. And our government is doing NOTHING to stop it.
George Hotchkiss3That’s a great question it may be a sub set of why does Today no longer attempt journalism?
Ed Parnell3Musk is massaged because he is wealthy. And the BBC, certain parts of it, still think we should equate wealth with respect. You look at 99% of the wealthy people just in the UK. Corrupt, crooked, often perverts. Not patriots or useful.
Michael C2Too many people worship Money.
Persona-Non-Grata2felon skum is apartheid nazi fascist
It is staggering, STAGGERING that one can saunter wistfully and starry-eyed through a discussion of Musk’s achievements without framing it through his extreme politics. That should set the tone for every subsequent remark about his achievements. Not just an engineer. A racist engineer. #r4today
DoctorDee 🇺🇦 Слава Україні17He's never been an engineer. The thing he had most hands on was the Cyber Truck. He's a tech-savvy capitalist who employs engineers.
JustJane7I missed the Musk smoke-blowing item on #r4today but am astonished to learn they made no ref to his politics !! He's practically an enemy of this state ..
SoloSojourner7Elon Musk is not an engineer and there’s no documented evidence that he personally performed engineering duties like drafting schematics, running CAD models, or conducting stress tests at Tesla or SpaceX. He’s just an ordinary racist.
drbarbarajane.bsky.social6Does he actually have any achievements other than piggy backing off those that do? 🤷♀️
Quijote14There are NO achievements. The man is scientifically illiterate! Just because he can bs, like all conmen, and mastered the sci lingo doesn't mean he understands shit! In fact, real scientists came away speechless and appalled at his stupidity after meeting him.
Debs Kaye2Yet they NEVER talked about this during the election and they don't talk about them now either! Just ANOTHER RICH GUY the MSM PROTECTS! He's ALSO in the Epstein files!
Linda Noel2Not an engineer. He himself couldn't engineer his way out of a wet paper bag with a scalpel. What he is Is a world class Barnum and Bailey style grifter who caught a ride into the Epstein Class, and knows where the dirt is hidden. And now he owns your government (not just the US...).
Alina est une Русинка❌️👑2As someone with three degrees from the College of Computer, Mathematical, and Physical Sciences at my university, I cannot stress this enough: Elon Musk is NOT an engineer.
Absolutely wild that the BBC has got Elon's friend on to fluff for him just 3 days after he was inciting people to burn down houses in Belfast. Public service broadcasting at its best. Public money well spent. #r4today
LuxJude35215I feel like we are living in a parallel universe. All the shit that he’s done and it’s all gone down the memory hole for the media. They’re lauding a terminal narcissist who’s using his power to foment race riots and kill brown people. #r4today
cancelled-by-elon.bsky.social11Amol Rajan is so blatantly going to spend a shit-ton of his 350 grand a year of public money on SpaceX stock. We need a public register of BBC staff interests. #r4today
Flying Squid is always very serious. Probably.3Our BBC apparently does not actually belong to us.
