I was astonished, but not surprised when I went out to dinner this week and a dinner guest remarked that people abroad were now calling the BBC ‘a British Disease’.
Has the BBC has lost its way, or is it simply that they no longer own their own soul?
The in-crowd at the BBC can be accused of making news because they no longer simply report it!
They can also be accused of manipulating public opinion with their own Common Purpose, to which the general public are ‘said’ to respond this way or that, but how accurate is the BBC’s portrayal of British public opinion any more?
The debacle over Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand knocked two wars and the monetary crisis off the top spot in the news for a whole week, and the BBC reportage did actually offend me more than this ludicrous pairs vicious remarks.
After ten years of political correctness, it seems the BBC thinks it is OK to be riske, because the younger audience like it – but do they?
The BBC are quite prone to putting microphones under people’s mouths to record what they want to reflect and to skew the actuality.
There were thousands of people objecting to Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand, but the BBC did not tell us the actual numbers who supported them, did they?
All they have to do is find one person to disagree with the recent public outrage and shove a microphone under their nose to present this as – well what exactly?
This tactic of the BBC is spreading like a very nasty virus and they use it absolutely everywhere, but to what Common Purpose?
After ten years of political correctness, it seem the BBC think it is perfectly OK to lambaste The Daily Mail, the over 50s, conservative opinion, old fashioned values, the ‘internet mob’ – in fact anyone who dares to criticise their overpaid and lewd ‘stars’ – who are praised for pushing the boundaries – and anyway its OK for the BBC in-crowd to criticise anyone they feel like criticising, especially if they are not on the politically correct list of protected and prescribed victims.
Anyone not on that list is ‘fair game’?
But where are the BBC pushing the boundaries?
Towards a Brave New World?
It looks like a Vicious New World to me.
How many people earn £16,000 a year anyway (Jonathan Ross earns this in one day!)?
How many people could get away without prosecution for leaving such messages on anyone’s answer machine?
How many people would have the BBC to protect them by airing people who praise such abuse and make apologia for it?
Being driven by public opinion to enforce a final warning on Jonathan Ross and allowing Russell Brand and a manager to resign does not end the underlying ‘British disease’ behind the BBC now does it?
May be there was far more behind the outrage of public opinion here than just the riske behaviour of a couple of overpaid trendies!
After ten years of political correctness, the BBC make light of many that are abused – perfectly legal people going about their daily life, perfectly law abiding citizens – with no comment, or slightly amused bewilderment that such abused people should be offended at all.
The BBC can always wheel out their in-crowd to say whatever they like (and they do!), and it is such a small in-crowd – always the same trusted faces isn’t it?
Britain is full of highly educated experts who never get a look in to counter the same old BBC line of what they want us to think is their ‘accurate’ portrayal of British public opinion.
The abuse the BBC seem to approve of ranges from attacks on Prince Charles – a legitimate target for attack the BBC opine – let’s not mention Princess Diana here shall we, after all ‘she asked for it’ by talking to the media in the first place (so the BBC in-crowd tell us) – to enemies of the BBC (who are these and how numerous are they?), to ordinary people who do not want their privacy ravaged on the altar of ‘the people’s right to know’ – and just anyone else at all who doesn’t pull the Common Purpose line of the BBC in-crowd, and who are probably too awfully out of step with fashion to matter anyway.
OK, as a homeopath I feel personally affronted here, when the BBC give such air time to our critics and broadcast propaganda that doesn’t hold up to scientific scrutiny after a few weeks!
But hell, who cares anyway?
A lie can go around the World before the truth can get is boots on and homeopaths were not responsible for drug resistant malaria in the first place were we, but drug resistant malaria was not mentioned on their dramatic expose of homeopathic malaria prophylaxis which has such a distinguished history, but will never be mentioned by the BBC with its Common Purpose to promote big business and goodness knows what else?
Well, if the BBC insist on sleeping with the corporate world with such a Common Purpose, then they must make their peace with who they wake up with the next morning!
If the BBC practices such drear tactics, then they must make their peace with what public opinion wakes up with in the morning!
If you teach us a song, we will learn how to sing it, and the Law of Unforseen Consequences with have its way.