BBC Grandee Jonathan Dimbleby has been at it again…urging us, the paying public, to support his life of ease and licence fee sponsored largesse and his overweening sense of entitlement.
Apparently he has been berating the Any Questions audience to write to their MPs to stop the government and the vested interests of those on the right-wing from crushing the BBC…never mind that the government has given many reassurances that the left-wing BBC is basically untouchable.
Not the first time Dimbleby has expressed his fear and loathing for the Tory government and those ‘vested interests’, not the first time he has abused and exploited his position to propagandise on behalf of his employer…
The veteran political broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has attacked the commercial enemies of the BBC for setting out to destroy it, and has urged audiences to rise up to defend the corporation.
Making an unexpected intervention at a recording of Radio 4’s long-running current affairs comment show, Any Questions?, Dimbleby, brother of David and son of the BBC’s first war reporter, the late Richard Dimbleby, said the corporation’s opponents “have to be taken on by the BBC and by those viewers and listeners who own the BBC”. He added: “Go around the world, listen to what people say about the BBC, they think it’s astonishing we are having to think about whether or not it should survive.”
And here he is again confecting outlandish conspiracy theories…
Broadcaster Jonathan Dimbleby has hit out at the BBC’s “enemies” and warned against cuts to the licence fee.
The appointment of Tory MP John Whittingdale, who has called the licence fee “worse than the poll tax”, to the post of culture secretary has led to speculation that the broadcaster could face major changes to the way it is funded.
But Dimbleby called on the government to think twice before delivering a punitive licence fee settlement when it comes to charter renewal.
He told RadioTimes.com that “the nation would lose massively if the BBC were to face any kind of demise”.
“I believe that while there are powerful vested interests who would like to see the BBC denied a licence fee, without a licence fee the BBC could not do what it does.
This is the BBC which is the overwhelmingly dominant news provider, one that seeks to crush the competition be they Sky, News Internatonal or the smallest local newspaper….just remember how the BBC took part in the anti-Murdoch witch-hunt that was the Leveson Inquiry….it did everything it could to attack its biggest commercial and ideological rival.
Talk about ‘vested interests’ and ‘enemies’. Dimbleby is very selective in his ranting.
Here for example is a case in point that illustrates the reach, power and dominance of the BBC…
Classical-Music.com
The official website of BBC Music Magazine
Not only does the BBC have a classical music magazine but it has a website also……how many more BBC magazines have such websites? Should the BBC be providing these magazines that compete so unfairly with the truly commercial sector?
The BBC’s magazines are published by a private company, Immediate Media Company, but of course the content comes courtesy of the BBC which also gives the magazines huge amounts of publicity, every programme being an advert for the magazine in effect, as well as back up in the form of BBC ‘roadshows’.
The profits from the magazines help fund BBC programmes…hardly fair to genuinely commercial media companies…
BBC Music magazine is published by Immediate Media Company Limited under licence from BBC Worldwide, which helps fund new BBC programmes.
BBC people like Dimbleby obviously don’t know just how well off they are, or rather they know all too well that they have led an enchanted life at the expense of the licence fee payers and are scared to death that they have been found out.
They don’t like it up ’em.
The way to bring the scumbag edifice down is to stop paying the tv licence……a proud refusenik of 6 years now
You know it makes sense……deprive them of oxygen and they will die
Same here, and not so much as a knock at the door from the Capita goons.
I’ve encouraged many others to do the same too.
I had one…….but he got chased……double quick too 🙂
I want to bring the BBC down as I’m fed up with it
Am I a vested interest ?
I’m quite willing to debate with the BBC and allow them to expose my “interests” . My vests as well , they’re thermal at this time of the year .
Nepotism = Dimbleby = Nepotism.
I propose:
– not watching or listening to the BBC. Eventually if no one is using it, it will be noticed.
– lobbying for democratic control of the BBC – e.g. voting for the Governor every 4 years.
Absurd rubbish from Dimbleby. The BBC will never defend my people and my culture. It is inimicable to the spirit of Western civilisation and to the concept of freedom it is a stranger. It is an enemy of my way of life and of the past of my country. I despise it and wish for it’s end. In the harsh times coming it is something we do not need and cannot afford in more ways than merely monetary.
I think there is a sea-change occurring, right now. More and more of the ordinary viewing public are simply voting with their feet. Regardless of whether they pay the licence fee or not, the Beeb is now just ‘one of many’ sources of news and entertainment for so many of us, and it is rapidly approaching a critical point.
Pretty soon now, the BBC will find it very difficult to attract large audiences, however much its finances continue to be pumped up.
I really don’t think the money is what will bring the BBC to its knees; it’s the sheer lack of credibility it will have, both from the public, and from the program-makers’ point of view. No-one wants to be associated with a loser, whose news and entertainment output is despised as freakish and unreliable. I speak to so many people now who treat the Corporation’s news and current affairs output with real caution, and are totally bored with the constant messaging in its entertainment programming. All of a sudden, its bias is becoming a commonplace, and the BBC must be really worried now about becoming a laughing-stock.
And remember, our leader does nothing about it.
Its because he needs Al Beeb to promote his campaign to stay in the failed state and to promote his ‘Big Deal’ and to stay in the EU.
Unfortunately the Great Chinless Wonder like most recent Prime Ministers of recent years sold his soul and his credibility for 30 pieces of silver.
All of these so called leaders (apart from Maggie and probably IDS) possess no real integrity. Their relationship with press and especially Aunty – is more like mutual masturbation (Ill be nice to you if you will be nice to me). All they care about is that they remain in the public eye so after their terms they can get a nice little earner on a company board.
People like the great Dimblebore know this and this empowers them. And because they are also have a vested interest on also being on board the same gravy train they do their utmost to defend it as they cannot imagine what life is like down with us prols!
Oh for the days of Cool Britannia when we were not so cynical!
Democratic politicians are, by and large, rudderless and self-serving – this is not a modern phenomenon, we have at least three centuries of it going back to the earliest days of an independent parliament. Certain people seek power and privilege without any moral compunction, and for those people modern media are just the latest technology for pursuing their aims.
However, the antennae of a politician are very sensitive to popularity and credibility. If the Beeb starts looking like a busted flush, they will be the first to transition to a new means of holding onto power. All they need is another platform to jump onto. Some on the Left now think, erroneously, that they can move to an ethnic (specifically Islamic) vehicle. The Centre are looking to Europe and other supra-national pseudo-democracies to grab hold of. What the Right are looking toward I don’t know, because they are not very prominent in our public life at the moment.
The point of this is that every vehicle to power which is favoured by the pathologically ambitious in our society, is deluded into feeling its place is secure, and that it can never be replaced. It is how they are groomed to feel – to be a compliant prostitute. However, this is not a true reflection of their relationship to power, and broadcasting as a whole, let alone the BBC, is at present in a very vulnerable state, much more than the BBC at least perhaps realises. Regardless of how central and irreplaceable they feel, our society is quite capable of being moved on to a different kind of ‘glue’, should it be in the apparent interest of the great and the good, the power-seekers and the ambitious. After all, certain religions are propelled very effectively, being bound together by the simple power of a book.
As all of us here know, the BBC is the voice of the public sector. Rarely does the BBC produce anything that has anything to do with the private sector or the people who work within it. It’s all about doctors, politicians, police, nurses, hospitals, schools, bin men, etc. etc. Question Time is invariably infested with public sector workers in its audience ready to shout out their left-wing soundbites in an effort to influence public opinion. One of the most common being the claim that the nasty Tories are covertly privatising the NHS.
If you view the BBC website from outside the UK you will immediately notice the added advertisements. Is this a sign that the BBC is covertly being privatised? And why isn’t anyone at the BBC shouting this fact from the rooftops, as NHS staff do about the NHS?
Once upon a time, Jonathan was the Dimblebore who worked for the opposition. I recall an astonishingly credulous documentary he made for ITV in East Germany. He reported, truthfully, that owning a car (and we’re talking about a Trabant here) was an almost unimaginable luxury, although I don’t recall that he explained why car ownership was so rare: e.g. that it was a reward for getting a good rating with the Stasi, that East German roads hadn’t seen any repairs since the T34s ploughed through them and that the furthest even a very, very obedient citizen could drive was Poland (assuming the Trabant’s wheels didn’t fall off before that).
The Dimblebug also repeated the Honecker line about East Germany’s economy’s supposedly being the ninth strongest in the world. That claim depended entirely on East Berlin’s own evaluation of its currency and industry (including Trabant manufacture). P.J. O’Rourke wrote a brilliant piece about a visit to East Berlin, when he was forced to change a certain amount of real money into Ostmarks and then spent a day in East Berlin, desperately trying (and failing) to find anything on which he could spend any of them. Since he wasn’t allowed to take them into Civilisation with him, he ended up stuffing them into a bin.
Did the Dimblebee somehow avoid such contact with the realities of the “Democratic Republic”?
Who has the bigger sense of entitlement, Kanye West or Jonathan Dimblobby?