The BBC has decided its image needs a bit of a burnish…so it decided to look through the archives, find times when it was mired in controversy and catching some flak.
It then does what the BBC does best….rewrite history….funnily enough with the BBC always coming out on top having been ‘proved’ right all along in the end.
Eight programmes of ‘Battle For The Airwaves’ presented by Nick Robinson…..The series examines the struggles between broadcasters and politicians…..the 1936 general strike, Churchill in the 1930’s, Suez, Labour in the 1970’s, Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Iraq war and present day relations with politicians.
As Nick Robinson says:
‘Good old BBC Radio 4 have made every episode of my recent series Battle for the Airwaves available on iPlayer for the next year.’
Funny what they make available for the longest time on iPlayer.
I listened to ‘Churchill’ and the ‘Iraq War’ programmes….couldn’t listen to any more.
None of it was really the BBC’s fault…it was all really government pressure that kept Churchill and his anti-appeasement views off the BBC…and as for the Iraq War…well the BBC were ‘caught between a (bullying) government determined to prove that war was both necessary and just and its opponents who insisted it was premature, immoral and based on a lie…..and Greg Dyke only wanted to prove his independence against a bullying government.’ .
Apparently the ‘Public’ all knew ‘Hutton’ was a whitewash and loved the BBC ever more because of it.
Robinson signs off with the claim that the ‘Battle For The Airwaves’ over the Iraq War was the only one that cost a man’s life…that of David Kelly.
I might suggest otherwise….the BBC’s whole coverage of the Afghan and Iraq wars has cost the lives of many people…both allied forces and civilians. The keeping of Churchill off the airwaves contributed to the appeasing of Hitler and the token opposition to his actions. The BBC’s coverage of the Falklands just gives further encouragement to Argentina. Its coverage of Northern Ireland gave the ‘oxygen of publicity’ to terrorists…as its constant excuses for Islamic terrorism does today. Its position on Suez led to historic consequences as Britian was forced to withdraw with its tail between its legs by the Yanks.
Its coverage of Europe has given cover to politicians who want to move ever closer to European integration even as Europe ‘burns’ around us.
Its coverage of immigration has allowed politicians to do as they like destroying a society and a culture without account…..600,000 native Brits forced out of London alone.
Its coverage of the economy has allowed Labour to keep its head afloat with the ability to deny all responsibility for the economic disaster it engineered.
And of course its recent coverage of the Middle East has meant that Jews around the world face rising anti-Semitism and conflicts are prolonged without resolution as Israel is constantly held back from finishing the job by a barrage of negative media reports influencing politicians….Blair of course being forced out of government by his support for Israel in Lebanon.
Here’s an idea for another programme…’What would Britain be like if the BBC didn’t exist?’
the biased broadcasting cresent? unfavourable news?
everyone loves the al bbc don t ya know?
UN Reports the Truth: Hamas Killed BBC Reporter’s Baby in Gaza,” Israel National News,
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166054#.UT1GtRk8zA0
oh! bbc getting favourable press again?
Another fabricated atrocity – Will the many, many mainstream media outlets that reported that Jihad Misharawi’s son was killed by the Israelis run retractions and apologies?
R Spencers jihadwatch
http://www.thereligionofpeace.com/
The Washington Post and a BBC bureau chief last November accused and convicted the Israel Defense Forces in a heartrending, angry piece without verifying their information …
hmm you don t say. impartial to the hignest degree 😀
can’t wait to see Dan (make it up as you go along) Snow’s history of Syria
“Here’s an idea for another programme…’What would Britain be like if the BBC didn’t exist?’”
Now you know that’s not a sensible suggestion!
If the BBC made that programme then no doubt the Island would have sunk without trace, or civilisation would have regressed to such a level that we would be wearing animal skins and eating each other!
It’s a good suggestiong for a programme however. not such a good suggestion that it’s produced by the bBC !
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, lord Haw haw (well, the most famous of them) was hung and his name is still associated with treason (like Quisling etc) for doing far far less than the BBC does year in year out. As an institution they are anti British.
Hanged for execution, hung in every other instance!
Yeah before anyone else says it – pedantry !
Thanks…didn’t realise you liked little boys though.
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Or feet !
‘Funny what they make available for the longest time on iPlayer.’
Its a conspiracy! Funny, this programme is available for a year too:
Panorama – Jimmy Savile – What the BBC Knew
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01nspvr/Panorama_Jimmy_Savile_What_the_BBC_Knew/
A programme that I would love to make if I had the ability would be ‘ How the BBC contributed to the decline of Britain 1960 to 2010’.
I am sure that over this 50 year period the BBC was a major factor in changing the culture of the country , the make up of the population and the outlook of the people. Taken across the whole spectrum the BBC has been a major contributor , if not the driving force, in the decline of Britain relative to other major countries and is a worse place to live for its indigenous population, which of course the BBC don’t bother to represent .
The baffling thing to me is how few of my friends see that the BBC has been and remains, a malign force in the country, which is eroding democracy and free speech and forcing cultures on Britain that are alien to us.
Bit pointless idly speculating when there is a recent post Saville poll showing the damage that caused and how the BBC’s reputation swings on the moment:
http://yougov.co.uk/news/2012/12/18/bbc-reputation-crisis/
Of course this is BBC News under attack. The haters forget that the BBC is a lot more than news as any radio tv or web user will confirm.
It has a unique position, one it gets right as well as wrong. However I don’t see a mass groundswell anywhere to get rid of the BBC. Funny that isn’t it?
Yes indeed Oflag IV the “BBC is a lot more than news”. yes much much more. It is an all pervading entity whose power and malign influence is felt everywhere and its advocacy of its preferred outcomes is apparent in every single aspect of its output.
Can you tell me why the heads of ‘comedy’ and children’s programming were party to the seminar that decided to ‘abandon impartiality’ and actively campaign relation to AGM. A seminar, incidentally, made up of pressure groups and activists as opposed to ‘the best scientific minds’.
The point is that ‘haters’ as well as everybody else have a right to expect fair and balanced reporting and analysis and to have TV,radio and ‘net’ programming not freighted with the BBC soi-disant mission to socially engineer Britain.
The BBC uses every vehicle and tactic it possesses to advance its agenda and values – which indicdentally do not reflect the prevailing views of the population at large.
It is a bloated, arrogant, self-important entity that utterly dominates and dictates social and political debate in the UK and actively seeks to change Britain and indeed gthe World to reflect what it perceives to be ‘a better state’. It is overmighty and opines rather than deigning to reflect and report.
Worst of all I and millions of others am forced to pay for it on pain of imprisonment and forced to listen to the BBC bitterly consigning’ at every opportunity and using its entire media might, against any rivals who dare to encroach on its 80% market share whilst simultaneously ‘reassuring’ me that it has ‘watertight’ editorial scrutiny – scrutiny that allows blatantly party political attacks to be made in the form of reports’ – ‘Thatcher era Tory Paedos’ spring to mind here – whilst pretending for nearly 40 years that young girls were not systematically abused by BBC staff, and that the evil Catholic Church was indeed culpable of gross and hideous cover ups because it dealt with those issues ‘internally’ the BBC is entirely innocent because it didn’t cover up- it didn’t even f***ing well investigate………………………………….
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It’s funny but no one saw a groundswell of public opinion in the Soviet Union either! I don’t see many wanting a return to the bad old days though.
Except of course in the UK where there are plenty of lefties who would love to silence opposition to their nutcasery!
Example, that ‘Woman’ who appeared on QT the other night who would not have looked out of place in an anglers net.
No debate, just shouting down an opposition, ably aided and abetted by good old Auntie.
“No grounswell of opinion” Just like the massive groundswell of opinion where every single person on the street you meet is obsessed with Global Warming as the single biggest issue facing humanity – all this despite
a) active propaganda in schools terrifying children
b) Inclusion in every aspect of BBC output
So when is a groundswell not a groundswell….
When it is, say, the utterly massive grounswell of opinion about EU membership or about untrammeled immigration or any other of the despised right-wing ‘populist’ issues.
Here’s a thought – this site has had 15.5m visitors over say 15 years- I guess that there are on average about 100 regular contributors – that is about 1 million hits a year – or 10,333 per year per ‘regular’, so clearly this is not just an echo chamber for ‘swivel eyed wing nuts’
I would say that there is quite a big non-contributing readership of this site. I’m sure that the site owners have stats (peerhaps some could be published to show how popular the site is) but I am guessing something like 3000 hits per day over its life and a much, much higher actual hit rate at the moment. That is a lot of people who want to know about BBC bias.
A groundswell?
No, we don’t forget that, colditz. I say it all the time.
The mass groundswell against the BBC is coming from the boom in the number of haters who hate paying the licence fee for an organisation that hates the truth.
Yes, but it adds an equal smattering of bias into whatever programme it makes or if it can’t add bias it includes indoctrination or social engineering much like a chef might add a secret ingredient but instead of making the programmes tastes better it just makes them stink.
Given what a treacherous gut rotten organisation, the BBC has now become: it was a rare pleasure to hear the obituary given to William Letwin on Lat Word the other night.
Having heard to gloop about yet another Latin American hero of the left( like those Mexicali bandits who provide their “stash” most weekends)…in this case a hagiography of Chav…it was a joy to hear that the death of a man who educated, who gave birth to big ideas like those of Keith Joseph and the CPS(Centre for Policy Studies..not Blairs creature for prosecuting the good, and letting the bad get away).
Letwin was Olivers dad…and just the kind of bloke that the BBC won`t like remembered( as opposed to Hobsbawm, to Howard Marks or Great Train Robbers)…so I`m glad that they DID bother to note his passing.
Isn`t it sad that even a little fillip like this gets a mention on this site….99% of their output is predictable, Stalinist garbage
with patchouli, old dope air freshener sprayed gaily about!
Grateful for small mercies..that`s me guv!