Perhaps it's time for the BBC to "beg for money" from the government every 4 years and do something in exchange for that(i.e. less critical to gov actions, more propaganda etc).
Then why have them at all?
Why not call it <INSER_CURRENT_RULING_PARTY_NAME> TV?
Media and journalists mostly have a left bias and when there is a right government they won't side with the government, unless the government is a de facto dictatorship and you can't go against it for safety concerns (Russia comes to mind).
Not that I justify state TVs at all - I'm against all forms of taxation - but bias is not one of the issues imho.
They are critical of the government sometimes (e.g. right now) but their editorial line follows what the investor owned press is saying. They havent been independently critical since their independence was curtailed after the David Kelly whitewash, IIRC.
Where they lean "left" it is by placing prominence on issues like women's rights, gay rights, veganism, pronoun politics, etc. and other "leftish" issues nonthreatening to powerful interests (a form of left https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics) ). They downplay strikes and most protests (including antivaxxers).
This is a highly naïve view that can only be said somebody who has always lived in a country with free press. Look at Poland, not a dictatorship but increasingly hostile to government critical journalists.
> I'm against all forms of taxation
How do you propose to fund schools, streets, police, military, and fire services? Paying for them individually will not work unless you mean insurances which then are basically a tax.
This is an astonishing comment. Can you justify it?
Given that journalists are mostly aged between 25 and say 60, have a degree, and fit in the "AB" group, you pump it into
https://lordashcroftpolls.com/2019/12/how-britain-voted-and-...
And you find a large majority will be "not tory" all things being equal.
It seems entirely possible for a person sympathetic to the left to create content which is unbiased, or even biased in the other direction, based on external pressures.
The claim made wasn't that most journalists lean left, which may or may not be true (I think your assessment is probably a decent first approximation); but that "most media and journalists have a left bias", which is so far from being true in the UK that I suspect that GGP may not be arguing with facts in mind.