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Yeah the BBC News has been going downhill for a while now, and as someone from the UK it is disappointing to watch. They are blatantly pro-remain and anti-trump as well, which they use to bias every news story to their liking.

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Agreed. I used to use the app religiously, I'm now using News Republic more often. I don't watch on the TV at all anymore, it makes me feel foul. I remember watching a BBC journalist throw bottles of water for a group of desperate people, who reacted by sidestepping the bottles and continuing to watch the idiot in front of the camera, completely disinterested in the water. Of course, he only started "assisting" the desperate after he'd finished his drawn out description of how desperate they were. They're increasingly tabloidy in order to maintain market share, but it's just increasingly repulsive.

They're hardly uniformly pro-Remain, I'd credit the BBC giving Farage far more airtime than any other minor party leader with a large part of the success of Leave.

And anyone reporting what he actually does or says will come across as "anti-Trump".

Didn't he have something like 17% support? That's hardly minor.

UKIP had 12.6% of the vote and 1 MP in the general election.

They got a lot of airtime on the BBC, more than their share from my memory.

I have to agree with this, my favorite example of BBC's downfall is when they described a terror attack as if the attacker was the victim.

Do you have an example? I don't read the BBC regularly.

They since changed the title, but here is an archive http://archive.is/4MSwt

I can't see where they describe the attacker as a victim in that page.

That was honestly surprising...

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