Tuesday, May 23, 2006
The BBC; Mock Objectivity Paid For by Extorted Funds
I've never quite understood the excitement of some when coming to the defense of the BBC. The argument always comes down to how "great their programming is" to which my response is, "So what?"
People can get a variety of news from a variety of perspectives along with nature documentaries, The Arts, and everything under the sun -- without the BBC, PBS, or NHK (in Japan)!
I like Bruckner Symphonies. I think they're great, but not so great that they should be force financed by people who may or may not like Bruckner Symphonies. "But the public needs an objective source of news...(and a state sanctioned mega-budget playground for pseudo-intellectuals is just the way to get it)."
"...'…Robin Aitken, who spent his entire career as a BBC journalist, has written a book accusing the BBC of institutionalized Leftism. For 25 years he chalked up solid experience across the board as a BBC reporter. In other words, he is a BBC man through and through. So when someone like this lifts the lid on newsroom culture, it carries weight. And his message is that BBC journalism is as bent as a corkscrew. This picture of a corrupted BBC culture that is ideologically skewed towards the left is blindingly obvious to anyone who does not share those assumptions. With a few honorable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is The Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues. Every day, its relentless bias rolls across the airwaves to shape the assumptions of our society. Who can be surprised at Britain's current anti-Americanism when the BBC starts from the premise that President Bush is a dangerous extremist? On issue after issue, the BBC throws impartiality to the winds...' "
An excellent analysis of the biased BBC.
(I still ask, biased or not, "great programming" or not, why should any country's citizens be forced to finance a specific product which they may not have asked for or even want -- especially "news?")
People can get a variety of news from a variety of perspectives along with nature documentaries, The Arts, and everything under the sun -- without the BBC, PBS, or NHK (in Japan)!
I like Bruckner Symphonies. I think they're great, but not so great that they should be force financed by people who may or may not like Bruckner Symphonies. "But the public needs an objective source of news...(and a state sanctioned mega-budget playground for pseudo-intellectuals is just the way to get it)."
"...'…Robin Aitken, who spent his entire career as a BBC journalist, has written a book accusing the BBC of institutionalized Leftism. For 25 years he chalked up solid experience across the board as a BBC reporter. In other words, he is a BBC man through and through. So when someone like this lifts the lid on newsroom culture, it carries weight. And his message is that BBC journalism is as bent as a corkscrew. This picture of a corrupted BBC culture that is ideologically skewed towards the left is blindingly obvious to anyone who does not share those assumptions. With a few honorable exceptions, the BBC views every issue through the prism of left-wing, secular, anti-western thinking. It is The Guardian of the air. It has a knee-jerk antipathy to America, the free market, big business, religion, British institutions, the Conservative party and Israel; it supports the human rights culture, the Palestinians, Irish republicanism, European integration, multiculturalism and a liberal attitude towards drugs and a host of social issues. Every day, its relentless bias rolls across the airwaves to shape the assumptions of our society. Who can be surprised at Britain's current anti-Americanism when the BBC starts from the premise that President Bush is a dangerous extremist? On issue after issue, the BBC throws impartiality to the winds...' "
An excellent analysis of the biased BBC.
(I still ask, biased or not, "great programming" or not, why should any country's citizens be forced to finance a specific product which they may not have asked for or even want -- especially "news?")
