“The BBC’s lack of self awareness, or its solid brass neck, is apparent in this piece about one of its new stars Professor Brian Cox….
‘Prof Cox said the BBC had put science centre stage and had been rewarded with high ratings and huge interest. The Wonders of the Universe presenter said public service broadcasting had a “very important” role to play in changing the direction of society.”
Fair enough admission that the BBC has an activist agenda, I would have thought from Prof Cox
Two years ago James Murdoch made the keynote MacTaggart lecture at the festival, describing the BBC’s size and ambitions as “chilling” and accusing it of mounting a “land grab” in a beleaguered media market. During his alternative MacTaggart talk, Prof Cox said: “One of the things that surprises me about the debate about the BBC, here is an institution that is clearly a big global brand, a powerful global brand, recognised as the best in the world in many areas and what the British disease is to even consider damaging that institution.” ‘
The irony….the BBC likes to tell us how powerful Murdoch is and he must be stopped….when we all know it is the BBC which is the world’s most powerful and influential broadcaster. Yep….Murdoch is ‘too powerful’ and must be crushed!…..or is that just the British disease of attacking the successful?