Critics attack Kuennsberg's credibility and BBC impartiality
5 Sep 21 10:00 AM · 2d ago · 40 comments · 1 source · development 5 of 5
Commenters express frustration with Kuennsberg's interviewing approach and the BBC's treatment of different political figures, suggesting bias in her questioning.
“It pisses me off that Kuennsberg gets paid by the licence fee paying public, to be an ass kisser to the far right.”
shubdo.bsky.socialLaura Kuennsberg BBC Politics Show hostWoody Guthrie Historical protest musician
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Sheeran did himself no favours invoking the 'atrocities on both sides' argument. He must have lost all of his grounded friends and advisors
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So ... Sports presenters and musicians are not allowed political opinions!? What a shame Ms Kuennsberg is
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youtube.com/watch?v=jANu... Woody Guthrie wrote the lyrics to the protest song "Old Man Trump" in 1954, targeting his landlord, Fred Trump, for racist housing practices in his Brooklyn Beach Haven apartment complex... Woody Guthrie ~ I Ain't Got No Home #WoodyGuthrie #FredTrump #OldManTrump
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They actually got Billy Bragg on wato and asked him the same question. "I'm Billy Bragg," he replied.
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Has she heard of Live Aid or Sun City? Or Rock Against Racism? Or really, anything?
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Music - protest songs & chants, in particular - have throughout civilization been an unsuppressible tool for dissent. Asking that question reveals a lack of familiarity w both history & music.
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It pisses me off that Kuennsberg gets paid by the licence fee paying public, to be an ass kisser to the far right. She's a twat.
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We would not have made it out of the 70s without folk and protest music.
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Lack of knowledge or ignorance. 200 years ago…
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I always remember her interview with FatBastard Johnson when she behaved like a simpering love struck teenager dripping like a leaky old fridge. Vomit inducing
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Does she live under a stone? She's a culturally illiterate silly person.
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Check out Jesse Welles, he is touring now and selling out.
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Has Laura seen the library of popular songs of the 60's???? Very disappointing, coming from a land of brilliant, and politically inspired musicians. Next thing she'll tell us is that Shakespeare didn't do politics either.
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I devote a whole chapter in my new book on the idiocy of the "Shut Up and Play" crowd, and how boring their record collections must be.
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Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, John Lennon and Yoko Ono, The Chicks....just off the top of my sleepy head. Keep it going...
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Kuennsberg is showing her ignorance or has lost the ability to ask real questions.
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One of the most rock n roll photos of the 20th century. ✊
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"Too many protest singers, not enough protest songs"
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Pete Seeger...loved the raw conviction in his voice
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It’s a self own that transcends self owns
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The earliest political song I know of is the rising of the moon an Irish rebel song of 1798 one of thousands as a reaction to the the occupation of Ireland to even question whether a subject should be off limits more than smacks of a hint of censorship
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note that woody's son last i checked was republican. maybe he doesn't vote at all now i would bet. if you are aware of what has been happening in california, you would know that fascists are ALSO BLUE. california leads the way INto the toilet.
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