Coincidence? Curious timing of this interview with the DG of the BBC….couldn’t be part of the BBC’s ongoingcampaign to pressure the government to kick the BSkyB deal into the long grasscould it?
“The director general of the BBC speaks to Joan Bakewell in an exclusiveinterview with the New Statesman.
‘We’re talking about a concentration of media power in the UK that’s unheard ofin British history and unheard of anywhere else in Europe. The combination ofthat kind of power with ownership of a significant part of the newspaperspeople read, as well as an internet service provider – this is extraordinarypower.
Given the shape of what’s happening – the relative decline of other sources ofelectronic news, the funding security of ITN, the ability of commercial radioto fund news, the difficulty newspapers are having in funding newsgathering -it is going to be more, not less, important that the BBC has sufficientresources to be able universally to deliver high-quality, strictly impartialnews to the British public.’
Quite. Then again one could almost believe he is really saying hewants to hamstring Murdoch to give the BBC a free rein to be the major newsprovider….a free hand to shape the audience’s perceptions to the BBC worldview…
“A concentration of media power in the UK that’s unheard of in British history?” What the hell was the BBC then when Lord Reith started it? And has been for decades, spanning generations? I just can’t take this guy seriously.
If we didn’t before, we now know what world the BBC live in.
The simple truth is we need BSkyB to be taken over to break the BBC’s monopoly on the news. We need an alternative, an outlet that isnt afraid of airing stories that goes against its make up (ie. al beeb sanitising muslims rah rah rah). We need BskyB to be taken over simply to give us paying punters REAL choice!
And the BBC is afraid of that. How can they control the information that gets out there, how can they shape society in to the leftist utopia they want it to be IF they cant control the news!
Bring on the merger!
Mailman
Isn’t part of the BSkyB deal that Sky News becomes an independent company?
Yes, Murdoch has agreed to sell off Sky News and subsidise it by £20 million p.a. for 10 more years – in return for approval for News International to own 100% of BSkyB.
The BBC’s coverage of this story is not about reporting malpractice by the NOTW. This is payback. Murdoch vs the Establishment.
“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio”.
The New Statesman’s Mehdi Hasan is on the News Channel right now condemning nasty old Uncle Rupert’s power over Blair and Cameron. He says that no other “ordinary newspapermen” have the close connection to Government power like Murdoch. He said that Blair and Cameron consulted him on certain issues before acting.
So what about how the Labour Government used to run things by Nick Robinson and Robert Peston before acting on certain issues (*cough* PBR *cough*), but the current non-Labour Government doesn’t?
There was no mention of Thompson’s feature in the NS. Naturally.
The BBC’s Charter.
1. Propagandist must have access to intelligence concerning events and public opinion.
2. Propaganda must be planned and executed by only one authority.
a. It must issue all the propaganda directives.
b. It must explain propaganda directives to important officials and maintain their morale.
c. It must oversee other agencies’ activities which have propaganda consequences
3. The propaganda consequences of an action must be considered in planning that action.
4. Propaganda must affect the enemy’s policy and action.
a. By suppressing propagandistically desirable material which can provide the enemy with useful intelligence
b. By openly disseminating propaganda whose content or tone causes the enemy to draw the desired conclusions
c. By goading the enemy into revealing vital information about himself
d. By making no reference to a desired enemy activity when any reference would discredit that activity
5. Declassified, operational information must be available to implement a propaganda campaign
6. To be perceived, propaganda must evoke the interest of an audience and must be transmitted through an attention-getting communications medium.
7. Credibility alone must determine whether propaganda output should be true or false.
8. The purpose, content and effectiveness of enemy propaganda; the strength and effects of an expose; and the nature of current propaganda campaigns determine whether enemy propaganda should be ignored or refuted.
9. Credibility, intelligence, and the possible effects of communicating determine whether propaganda materials should be censored.
10. Material from enemy propaganda may be utilized in operations when it helps diminish that enemy’s prestige or lends support to the propagandist’s own objective.
11. Black rather than white propaganda may be employed when the latter is less credible or produces undesirable effects.
12. Propaganda may be facilitated by leaders with prestige.
13. Propaganda must be carefully timed.
a. The communication must reach the audience ahead of competing propaganda.
b. A propaganda campaign must begin at the optimum moment
c. A propaganda theme must be repeated, but not beyond some point of diminishing effectiveness
14. Propaganda must label events and people with distinctive phrases or slogans.
a. They must evoke desired responses which the audience previously possesses
b. They must be capable of being easily learned
c. They must be utilized again and again, but only in appropriate situations
d. They must be boomerang-proof
15. Propaganda to the home front must prevent the raising of false hopes which can be blasted by future events.
16. Propaganda to the home front must create an optimum anxiety level.
a. Propaganda must reinforce anxiety concerning the consequences of defeat
b. Propaganda must diminish anxiety (other than concerning the consequences of defeat) which is too high and which cannot be reduced by people themselves
17. Propaganda to the home front must diminish the impact of frustration.
a. Inevitable frustrations must be anticipated
b. Inevitable frustrations must be placed in perspective
18. Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred.
19. Propaganda cannot immediately affect strong counter-tendencies; instead it must offer some form of action or diversion, or both
BBC-NUJ/College of Journalism misuse of words:
e.g.
1.) BBC-NUJ ‘impartiality’ really means ‘bias’;
2.) BBC-NUJ ‘migrants’ really means ‘immigrants’;
3.) BBC-NUJ ‘militants’ really means ‘Islamic jihadists’.
Why does D.G Thompson give exclusive interview to Islam and Labour-leaning ‘NS’?
Mehdi Hasan Exposed. Part I – Atheists and disbelievers are “cattle” and “of no intelligence”
I prefer to get my news from C4 personally, I find their news is far better than BBC, Sky. I also like watching RT when possible.
NOTW closes. The Sun becomes a 7-dayer and Murdoch ends up saving money?
I see the bBC is flashing up on everyone of its web pages. (everyone) that the NOW is going to close. Anybody else think its something of an overkill
No, I think it’s massive. Largest circ paper in UK (the world?) being forced to close because of public disgust is a big story by anybody’s measure, surely?
And yet Rebekah Brooks still has her job. Unbelievable.
‘And yet Rebekah Brooks still has her job.’
But, per that BBC type quoted earlier, it would appear a few tealadies may soon not.
Law of unintended consequences, or simply acceptable collateral damage in MSM p*ssing contests?
Be interesting to see what other mobs Mr. Peston et al can whip up to close down anything else that ‘represents’ what they don’t fancy, without much concern for how it works down the system so long as juicy scalps get hung.
As a precedent there are some other less than stellar outfits that might benefit from the same treatment. Certainly on the basis of some bad apples and dodgy bosses means a total obliteration.
But if their politics is more to the tastes of thew twitter mob, maybe they might prove less keen to erect a scaffold?
It’s a perfect move by Murdoch. Shutting down NoW is what everyone has called for on the surface, and the reaction exposes it as a wedge issue and the complainers’ real goal: shutting down Murdoch, full stop.
Sure, some people are paying lip service to the strawman that “we must ensure this never happens again in the newspaper industry, blah, blah”, but it’s a feint.
Closing the paper isn’t enough, they want the editors and reporters arrested. That won’t be enough, and they won’t be satisfied really until someone named Murdoch is in the dock and nasty Uncle Rupert doesn’t own anything, thus ending all media competition in the country.
Deluded, bet he is bitter about getting a pay cut. I supose he won’t be able to afford that new villa in Tuscany.
A near monopoly on news and current affairs is terrible – unless it’s us. The BBC really are unbelievable aren’t they!
So the NOTW is being closed and Rebekah Brooks told her staff that the Guardian was out to get them. Not just the Guardian love but the BBC as well, Peston is spouting that the left are cheering tonight.
What I find amazing is how dumb Brooks, Murdoch and Cameron really are, have they only JUST worked out the BBC/Guardian want Murdoch destroyed?
Where the f**k have they been all these years?
Tonight the left under the BBC/Guardian have more of a hold on the media than ever before.
If Murdoch had any real brains he’d forget papers and start a UK version of Fox News (broadcast on the existing channel) done from the USA that really goes after left wing politicians.
But I suspect he won’t.
Again I don’t care, the people on the right are just plain dumb, the BBC/Guardian have been after them for years.
They’ve always known the Leftoid media is out to get them. They just thought they could get away with it.
http://autonomousmind.wordpress.com/2011/07/07/the-real-reason-for-the-guardian-bbc-assault-on-news-international/
The bastards have won.
Here’s a little story,
Two boys,
One gets caught lieing trying to make another look bad.
The other gets caught eavesdropping on others conversations
Which one gets expelled?
The lier stays in school to plot against the other boys and bully his way into power. The evesdropper is shown the door.
It’s a bit of a victory for the Guardian.
I just watched a bbc hack asking almost rhetorical questions of a dial-a-quote Labour MP like “How does this reflect on David Cameron’s judgement” (I’m pretty sure there was another subtle anti-Conservative twist in the wording of teh question, but can’t remember it for now)
Tedious
More stuff the BBC don’t like to <A HREF=”http://voiceforchildren.blogspot.com/2011/07/lenny-harper-scrutiny-evidence-1.html”>TALK ABOUT</A>
Am cheered by the fact that you can shut down a lying propaganda rag at ten minutes notice in the private sector.
Now we know it`s possible we have no excuse not to expect the BBC to fold up in similarly brutal fashion when ,at last; we get a Government that actually does what those who elected it wanted to be done.
None of this redundancy nonsense or years on notice.
I waill be wanting the BBC handed over to social groups and charities as soon as we can get it dismembered. Let`s see their pimping journos go crawling back to Uncle Rupert on his new redtop!
As D.G Thompson has admitted, on certain issues, the BBC, in effect, runs scared:
(scroll down)
“Director-general admits BBC steers clear of sensitive or ‘taboo’ topics”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012052/Lord-Patten-tells-BBC-stand-Britains-silent-majority-immigration.html#ixzz1RSAV8A9Y
These include:
1.) not criticisng the negative impact of immigration from e.g. Islamic countries on Europe, such as:
Research on Muslims in Danish schools: Extremely low intellectual skills, undisciplined, disrespectful, unambitious parents
2.) not reporting/criticising E.U. legal supremacy over British law:
“Taxpayer forced to foot £56,000 bill after university is given ‘outrageous’ fine for not displaying EU flag ”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012195/Northampton-University-fined-56k-displaying-EU-flag.html#ixzz1RSBsizgQ
3.) not reporting today remembrance of Islamic jihad massacre in London on 7 July, 2005.
What’s the difference between the English Defence League (EDL) and Islam Not BBC (INBBC)?
EDL remembers 7/7, INBBC doesn’t:
“7/7: A Day for Mourning and Reflection”
http://freedomnewsnetwork.co.uk/77-a-day-for-mourning-and-reflection
INBBC to appease Shia Muslims next?
After appeasing Sunni Muslims by enabling them to put on a carte blanche Islamic BBC 2 TV series on Muhammad, presented by Somali Muslim, and Al Jazeera presenter, Rageh Omaar, INBBC will now do the same for Shia Muslims due to advance complaints from the Islamic Republic of Iran.
“Iran threatens ‘serious action’ over BBC plans to screen documentary series on Muslim prophet Muhammad”
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2012252/Iran-threatens-BBC-Muslim-prophet-Muhammad-documentary.html#ixzz1RUaJiXyD
Iran threatens “serious action” over BBC Muhammad documentary
“Some useful received ideas for the BBC”
(Terence Blacker)
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/terence-blacker/terence-blacker-some-useful-received-ideas-for-the-bbc-2308685.html