Is the BBC Pidgin a valid news source?

[Anonymous]

The BBC pidgin is the BBC, but in pidgin English.

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https://www.bbc.com/pidgin

[Anonymous]

The BBC is like Russia Today only very left wing.

[goaded]

You mean it's not owned by an American billionaire.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded I'm mean state owned propaganda media station. Do you know that every UK household have to pay $213 every year to fund the BBC, it's called a tv licence. Imagine if netflix forced you to pay for a subscription you didn't even watch.

[goaded]

It's funded with the mandated TV licence, true, but it's not a "state owned propaganda media station".

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded A statutory corporation is a government entity created as a statutory body by statute. Their precise nature varies by jurisdiction, but they are corporations owned by a government or controlled by national or sub-national government to the (in some cases minimal) extent provided for in the creating legislation.
In the United Kingdom, a statutory corporation is a corporate body created by statute. It typically has no shareholders and its powers are defined by the Act of Parliament which creates it, and may be modified by later legislation. Such bodies have often been created to provide public services, examples including British Railways, the Ffestiniog Railway, the Talyllyn Railway, the National Coal Board, Post Office Corporation and Transport for London. Other examples include the county councils, the National Assembly for Wales, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Channel Four Television Corporation, and the Olympic Delivery Authority.
The BBC is a state owned public broadcasting company and operates under a royal charter. The charter is the constitutional basis for the BBC, and sets out the BBC's Object, Mission and Public Purposes. It emphasises public service, (limited)[b] editorial independence, prohibits advertising on domestic services and proclaims the BBC is to "seek to avoid adverse impacts on competition which are not necessary for the effective fulfilment of the Mission and the promotion of the Public Purposes".

[goaded]

"With a royal charter—not as a governmental department, and therefore independent of it."

" The BBC shall be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output, the times and manner in which this is supplied, and in the management of its affairs.
— Elizabeth II, Royal Charter for 2007"

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded still defined as a statutory corporation and it's in the name "royal charter" which means it's under control of the British head of state.

[Jersey2]

X is the news now so no worries.

[goaded]

You're clearly not from the UK if you think the monarch controls anything.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded you are clearly not from the UK if you think the monarch doesn't

[goaded]

Wrong.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded afraid not. The entire UK legal system from 1066 to the present is set up to keep the monarch in place.

[goaded]

That doesn't mean they control anything these days. At most it's a final backstop against fascism, like in 1940's Italy.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded fascism in Italy began in 1922, Italy had a monarchy back then, it was no backstop.

[goaded]

The monarchy put Mussolini into and out of power. The British king wouldn't make the same mistake today. That still doesn't change the fact that the BBC is independent of the government and certainly not controlled by it or the monarchy.

"In October 1922, following the March on Rome, Mussolini was appointed prime minister by King Victor Emmanuel III... After the tide turned, and the Allied invasion of Sicily, King Victor Emmanuel III dismissed Mussolini as head of government and placed him in custody in July 1943."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benito_Mussolini

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded it's not independent. Its given a degree of autonomy and will have to renew its charter in 2027 by leave of the monarch.

[goaded]

Well, at least you accept it's not like Russia Today. That's something, I suppose.

Do you really think the King won't renew the BBC's royal charter? Inconceivable.

[Opinion Owner]

@goaded the king may not renew the royal charter based on the tv licence. British people resent it, people have stopped paying it and they can't throw everyone in jail.
The only difference between the BBC and RT is that the BBC is not just news

[noohair]

I thought is was na AI joke...

[Asker]

The video is a joke, but the BBC Pidgin is real. They also have some coursework in some college in the UK that is fully taught in Pidgin English.

This was years ago they started teaching it in whatever school it was I read about back in 2015 I am pretty sure they probably expanded it by now and it's in other universities maybe outside of the the UK too. I wouldn't be surprised if they have Pidgin English courses in the US