The British Broadcasting Conspiracy exposed by a Children's Programme and an Anachronism!
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2007 19:58:29 -0500 (CDT)
The British Broadcasting Conspiracy exposed by a Children's Programme
and an Anachronism!
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At last, the lying nature of the BBC propaganda machine has been exposed
in the full glare of publicity. The event that has triggered this is, in
my opinion, of very little consequence and by focusing on it and other
petty issues it appears that, true to form, the BBC is trying
desperately to distract our attention from the elephant in its living room.
Nevertheless, with the Controller of BBC 1, Peter Fincham, squirming and
wringing his hands at the suggestion of his resignation, it has provided
us all with an opportunity to see the BBC as simultaneously grovelling,
pompous and in denial.
The BBC has been forced to apologise publicly for having made a
promotional video of the Queen where she is seen to lose her rag and
snap at a celebrity photographer, Annie Liebowitz, and storm out. It was
later discovered that the scene of her storming out never took place and
that the film clip was out of sequence.
Only in Britain! This incident has led to BBC reporters having to grovel
in front of the TV cameras and make statements such as, "It's an image
that goes completely against how the public sees Her Majesty ... hugely
embarrassing for the BBC."
Image, what image? What assumptions the BBC makes on behalf of the
British public! But then the BBC habitually makes assumptions about most
things, especially regarding Britain's imperialist wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan where never a day goes by without us hearing it tell us lies
by government decree.
Whereas it is free to lie and brainwash us all about the wonderful job
"our boys" are doing out there in the name of freedom 'n' democracy it
really has to watch its p's and q's when reporting about royalty. Here
are some of the statements I copied down from news recordings. While
reading these I would invite the reader to bear in mind the relatively
insignificant incidents they arose from and to contrast their pettiness
with the farrago of lies, disinformation and misinformation the BBC
produces daily over matters such as British military aggression.
"[An] apology was quick in coming and perhaps not surprisingly, given
the issues of audience trust and confidence in broadcasting," after an
incident where on a children's programme, Blue Peter, a fake winner was
announced and the BBC was later fined #50,000.
If a lie of that gravity deemed a fine of fifty grand then I am left to
ask what kind of fine should be meted out concerning the BBC's
compulsive lies about almost a million killed in a war crime which it
refuses to own up to? In that instance no fine would be large enough.
Instead the BBC should be wound up and every reporter and manager
complicit in lies about Britain's war crime should be tried at the Hague.
Returning to its recent misdemeanours:
"This is a hugely embarrassing affair for the BBC and while it's
been quick to minimise the damage there has been which will no doubt
prompt a great deal of internal soul-searching."
Soul searching? So the BBC has a soul, has it? Where has it been all
this while when it has been enthusiastically acting as the conduit for
Government propaganda in Britain's murdering, militaristic adventures
abroad and in Ireland?
It has been all to do with trust, the news minions assure us, the
audience's trust in broadcasting. Hugely embarrassing. Oh give over, how
petty and mediocre these little cogs in the BBC's wheel are!
Yesterday's BBC lunchtime news was of slightly more interest. And,
precisely because it was, not repeated later on in the day. It's
reporter, Paul Sillitoe:
"Given that the BBC had to pay a fine for misleading the public over
a Blue Peter programme, this latest event is deeply embarrassing and
comes just as an enquiry is launched into when it [the BBC] has
deceived the audience in any other programmes."
Deeply embarrassing, hugely embarrassing, a general squirming and
wringing of hands, and then it slips out there is to be an enquiry into
the BBC's credibility. Oh? And were we informed about this before this
ridiculous incident? No.
BBC reporter, Nick Highams, from Buckingham Palace:
"This is particularly embarrassing for the BBC which has always set
enormous store by not misleading the audience, by telling the
audience that they can trust whatever the BBC broadcasts."
On which planet does Mr Highams live? Certainly not on mine where the
BBC is on par with Big Brother and the former Soviet Union's controlled
media. C'mon Mr Highams, you know that's bullshit you're getting paid to
regurgitate. On the planet of privileged, highly-paid apparatchiks, have
you no sense of shame?
"Now today the Director of News, Helen Boaden, has written to all
her staff --this is apparently a BBC News only initiative at the
moment-- asking them to to look into all programmes since January
2005 where they believe there is a risk that the audience may have
been misled. And she wants to hear, even if it's only a hunch, about
any programmes like that so she can take the appropriate action."
Now you're really asking for trouble Ms Boaden. I hope you've bitten off
more than you can chew this time. I hope your staff have the courage to
tell you the truth about the monstrous lying-machine that masquerades as
the BBC News services. You won't like to be equated with Big Brother,
Goebbels and the former Soviet Union but that is a widely-held view
which is gathering, not losing, momentum both in Britain and elsewhere.
You, Ms Boaden, have a long history of covering-up for the BBC as
subscribers to investigators like Medialens
know all too well. You and
your cronies are responsible for having created a bubble of unreality in
which, like all good apparatchiks, you have insulated yourselves from
the real world. A bubble that has been burst by, not the forces of
democracy, but by an age-old anachronism.
This is what the former Chairman and ITV's current Chief Executive,
Michael Grade had to say:
"We're all in this together. I made a speech about this a couple of
weeks ago, about trust in broadcasting: it's an issue for all of us.
I am deeply concerned that there is a generation of programme-makers
around the place, at the BBC, independent producers, in ITV who do
not begin to understand the cardinal golden rule of broadcasting is
do not ever deceive the audience."
Sillitoe again who claims that restoring trust is the BBC's Number One
priority. We shall see, I'm not optimistic:
"This is not just a restoring of trust with the Palace but a wider
issue between broadcasting and the public."
Today, the BBC together with its Controller, the squirming Peter
Fincham, is fighting off calls for his and other resignations. If you
think this is bad wait till the revolution, boy, we'll have you be a
night soil carrier. Something which, in your present job, you already
know how to do well.
Michael Grade again:
"This incident will only add to the public's distrust of
broadcasters. What's of greater concern is that viewers' trust in
broadcasting as a whole has been severely shaken, not just by what's
happened on the BBC but on ITV, GMTV, Channel Five, Channel Four.
There is a serious issue of trust. The values of British
broadcasting have somehow got diluted with the new generation of
programme-makers. We have to restore it with a policy of zero
tolerance towards anybody who sets out deliberately to deceive."
Now here is an intelligent man who understands the need for the
Establishment he represents to reform its ways. But will it, can it do
so? One major reason for the deterioration of reporting standards has
been directly caused by the subsuming of British foreign policy within
Washington's. In every sense of the word, our reporters with a few
honourable exceptions, are well and truly embedded in the US war
machine. To get out of that deceitful and poisonous web is going to
require nothing less than a peaceful revolution and this country's
declaration of independence from the new King George and his successors.
What chance is there of that happening?
Nina Nannar, ITV News:
"With recent incidents where viewers have been misled by faked
competition results and scandals over phone-ins, whatever the BBC
chooses to do about this latest incident it is clear that
broadcasters as a whole are facing a serious issue that goes to
their very core: how to maintain the trust of their viewers."
Well, Nina, you're a big girl now. You should know the score.
Journalists and reporters are simply going to have to go back to the
honourable old traditions of reporting news as objectively as humanly
possible. We're all biased in different ways but there is a, perhaps
unattainable, standard called Truth which in days gone by many of us
were educated to try and maintain and never to cease striving for. It
had something to do with a quality of humanity and a willingness to see
the world as it really is, not as our rulers would have us see it. It
was and is about the courage to stand up for one's beliefs and to risk
having to pay the price for doing so in an increasingly corrupt and
decadent society. And where possible to band together in solidarity in
order to defend basic human values from being destroyed by rulers who
don't give a damn for either us or them.
It's also about regaining our self respect and our refusal to become
servile minions to a modern Moloch. Do you and your colleagues possess
the courage to face that reality or will you continue to betray
yourselves and your people to a false god?
The BBC has certainly tripped-up over a relatively insignificant issue.
Who'd have thought its innate corruptness would end up exposed by a
children's programme and an anachronism? So the Emperor has no clothes
on and is facing a potential broadcasting revolution. Will it now
succeed in stifling that revolution by continuing to distract us over
trivia whilst ignoring the elephant which just won't go away?
Well, that's up to the BBC. Folk like me only watch it to record the
lies so don't confuse our numbers in your audience ratings.
Meantime, we in the alternative media, the blogosphere, together with
the upcoming truth reporters in places such as Independent World
Television, Telesur and so on will carry on a revolution which, so far,
has been little televised.
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