Unless you're one of them right wing BBC bashers

Left wing BBC bashers, you mean, pfr, surely? ;-) I'm mildly left of centre; many of my friends are further left. What I hear more often is that the BBC is a Tory poodle, etc...

That's what you get for trying to be... balanced. Not neutral. Neutral is far harder & stops you saying so many things. Balanced means doing your best to present an equal view from both sides. Are the BBC perfect? No. But I still think they're the best thing we've got, in that regard...