been thinking about this and have a slightly galaxy brain take on why people on all sides seeking to delegitimise the BBC are probably creating more damage than they realise - https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/1386093559686778883

apart from an increasingly small number of exceptions, the online media landscape is now either newspapers hidden behind paywalls that not everyone wants to pay for, for whatever reason, or websites with so many ads they are genuinely unreadable, especially on old laptops

what's still free and accessible, however, is all the crank stuff you find on social media, along with assorted cranky websites; if things keep going the way they do, there'll only be one online resource that's not behind a paywall and not ruined by ads, and it's the BBC

so if as an activist or whatever you end up painting the BBC as this untrustworthy, dodgy news organisation because it fits whatever agenda you have, you're basically removing the one site people can and should rely on for free, accessible, genuine news online

/galaxy brain take over