Yes, their record of appeasing dictators goes back a long way:
A July 23 editorial in London’s Daily Telegraph points out that “BBC journalism exhibits the same ‘agenda-setting’ mentality… The BBC’s bias against the war led it into grotesque distortion of reality.” History repeats itself. Winston Churchill’s access to the radio broadcasting state monopoly in the 1930s was blocked by John Reith, the BBC director, who was an admirer of both Hitler and Mussolini. Radio broadcasting was then the only way Churchill could reach the masses and inform Britons about the growing Nazi threat. But Reith was an appeaser, like Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain. Reith wrote in his diary that the Nazis “would clean things up,” and about Churchill: “I absolutely hate him.”
Churchill, as always, had the right enemies. But the best broadside against the old BBC that I have ever read was an essay in the Cambridge Review, if memory serves, by, yes, Michael Oakeshott. I’ve tried to get it republished, but apparently it’s copyrighted somewhere.
EVEN THE BLIND… : … have to pay the BBC tax. But they get a $40 rebate! I’m not making this up.
QUOTE OF THE DAY II: “Maureen feels very strongly that she clarified the Bush quote. I appreciate your taking the trouble to write, and I’ll ask Maureen if there’s anything else she wants to say about the matter.”- Gail Collins, laying down the law on misquotation at the New York Times.
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