BBC bias -- latest obfuscations*

According to today's Gru

More Conservative supporters complained en masse about the BBC’s news coverage during the general election than Labour supporters... [But this is easily explained away]...Tories are more likely to take the time to write a stern letter of complaint.

Were all the complaints in the form of actual letters then? In a nice blurring of the categories:

Mass complaints alleging the BBC is biased in favour of either Labour or the remain campaign consistently outnumber those alleging the broadcaster is biased in favour of the Tories or Brexit by more than two to one.

Some idea of the scale of the problem appears nevertheless:

The show to attract by far the most complaints was an eve-of-poll edition of the Andrew Marr Show featuring Boris Johnson, scheduled at the last minute following the terrorist attack on London Bridge after he had refused an interview with Andrew Neil. It attracted complaints from 12,172 viewers who felt Marr was biased against Boris Johnson. [who read and coded all these complaints to conclude that, I wonder?]

A bit of tactical vagueness here as well:

One edition of the Andrew Marr Show broadcast in May attracted 1,128 complaints from the public [about what exactly?]. Some [how many?]  claimed the programme exhibited clear bias against Nigel Farage or against Brexit and others claimed the opposite.

Luckily, some complainers are fruitcakes -- the BBC/Graun hopes we will see them as typical?

Some viewers [of Last Night of The Proms] has [sic] taken offence at audience members with EU flags and the US singer Jamie Barton waving a rainbow flag.

Elsewhere, a piece by B Jabour. She is the Opinion editor (Australia), so no need to refer to the B word. Millenials are unhappy, it seems :

Do I hate my job? Do I want a child? Am I not, actually, all that special after all? The end of our extended adolescence is bringing many painful questions

I usually avoid assigning characteristics to entire groups of people. But, every 31-year-old I know is miserable....every 31-year-old seems to be in a state of ennui.

Previous generations probably had their “I’m not actually that special” realisation in their early 20s when working full-time, buying property and having kids. Millennials have had a well-documented prolonged adolescence throughout their 20s, a lot longer to be self-centred.

[Millenials need to] find a way to stop ruminating, to think outside ourselves. One of the unanticipated reliefs of having a child is all of the time spent not thinking about myself. I hadn’t realised how sick I had become of me....There are other ways to move on from the rumination: meaningful work, not-very-meaningful-but-fun hobbies, pets, volunteering, reading, exploration. (I refuse to say travel because it’s a dumb trope that travel makes you a more fulfilled or better person!)

Perhaps they will get over it after all.