The British Broadcasting Corporation is one of our supposed “national treasures” whose aims are to educate, inform and entertain the public that funds it through the licence fee. Under the motto “Nation shall speak peace unto Nation” the BBC claims to be a pillar of impartiality and a reliable source of independent news at home and abroad.
That was never the case back in the 1920s when the Corporation was founded. It’s certainly not the case now.
The BBC’s role has always been to serve the ruling class and defend British imperialism. During the Second World War the BBC’s policy of credible reporting easily outshone that of the Nazis. When the war ended the BBC continued to serve the ruling class and defend British imperialism. It totally failed to report a famine in Bengal that resulted in around 10 million deaths and was the result of a deliberate British imperialist policy of deprivation, and defended colonial efforts to maintain the Empire throughout the post-war era.
During the Cold War the Beeb cashed in on its war-time prestige to churn out sophisticated anti-communist propaganda at home and all around the world in the service of Anglo-American imperialism. It was said that while news from the Voice of America and Radio Moscow were “95 per cent truth and five per cent lies” the BBC had the edge with “ninety-eight per cent truth and only two per cent lies”.
Those days are now long gone. Although the state-owned broadcasting service still promotes some serious dramas, its news and current affairs output is just cheap, dumbed-down, third-rate bourgeois propaganda.
The BBC consistently supported Nato aggression against Serbia, Iraq and Libya, and imperialist efforts for regime-change in Syria and Venezuela, whilst turning a blind eye to Ukrainian fascist war-crimes in the Donbas and routine Zionist atrocities against the Palestinians. Obscure Russian, Chinese and Korean dissidents are treated like latter-day Gandhis while communists and other left leaders in the Global South are vilified or simply ignored.
This is the BBC that led the pack that demonised Jeremy Corbyn when he was the leader of the Labour Party. This is an international news outlet that crackdowns on their own journalists for sharing posts that include facts about Israeli atrocities in Gaza. This is the broadcaster that totally ignored the massive Palestine solidarity demonstration that rocked London last weekend. Some 600,000 people marched through the heart of the capital in support of the heroic Palestinians who still refuse to budge in the face of Israeli terror. But you wouldn’t know about it if you only relied on the BBC for home news.
Meanwhile this august body, which turned a blind eye to all sorts of degenerates like the late Jimmy Saville, can force out Gary Lineker for daring to publicly denounce the Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Lineker was a legend on the pitch. A top scorer in the League he made his England debut in 1984, earning 80 caps and scoring 48 goals over an eight-year international career, which made him England's second-highest goal-scorer on his retirement. Now he’s an immensely popular sports broadcaster. It’s the Beeb’s loss and Lineker’s gain. He’ll soon be back amongst the highest echelons of the sports media. As for the BBC no-one will miss it. The sooner it goes the better...
That was never the case back in the 1920s when the Corporation was founded. It’s certainly not the case now.
The BBC’s role has always been to serve the ruling class and defend British imperialism. During the Second World War the BBC’s policy of credible reporting easily outshone that of the Nazis. When the war ended the BBC continued to serve the ruling class and defend British imperialism. It totally failed to report a famine in Bengal that resulted in around 10 million deaths and was the result of a deliberate British imperialist policy of deprivation, and defended colonial efforts to maintain the Empire throughout the post-war era.
During the Cold War the Beeb cashed in on its war-time prestige to churn out sophisticated anti-communist propaganda at home and all around the world in the service of Anglo-American imperialism. It was said that while news from the Voice of America and Radio Moscow were “95 per cent truth and five per cent lies” the BBC had the edge with “ninety-eight per cent truth and only two per cent lies”.
Those days are now long gone. Although the state-owned broadcasting service still promotes some serious dramas, its news and current affairs output is just cheap, dumbed-down, third-rate bourgeois propaganda.
The BBC consistently supported Nato aggression against Serbia, Iraq and Libya, and imperialist efforts for regime-change in Syria and Venezuela, whilst turning a blind eye to Ukrainian fascist war-crimes in the Donbas and routine Zionist atrocities against the Palestinians. Obscure Russian, Chinese and Korean dissidents are treated like latter-day Gandhis while communists and other left leaders in the Global South are vilified or simply ignored.
This is the BBC that led the pack that demonised Jeremy Corbyn when he was the leader of the Labour Party. This is an international news outlet that crackdowns on their own journalists for sharing posts that include facts about Israeli atrocities in Gaza. This is the broadcaster that totally ignored the massive Palestine solidarity demonstration that rocked London last weekend. Some 600,000 people marched through the heart of the capital in support of the heroic Palestinians who still refuse to budge in the face of Israeli terror. But you wouldn’t know about it if you only relied on the BBC for home news.
Meanwhile this august body, which turned a blind eye to all sorts of degenerates like the late Jimmy Saville, can force out Gary Lineker for daring to publicly denounce the Zionist genocide in the Gaza Strip.
Lineker was a legend on the pitch. A top scorer in the League he made his England debut in 1984, earning 80 caps and scoring 48 goals over an eight-year international career, which made him England's second-highest goal-scorer on his retirement. Now he’s an immensely popular sports broadcaster. It’s the Beeb’s loss and Lineker’s gain. He’ll soon be back amongst the highest echelons of the sports media. As for the BBC no-one will miss it. The sooner it goes the better...
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