Thursday 24 March 2022
Propaganda Bung
Ukraine war: BBC World Service granted extra funding
The BBC World Service will receive more than £4m in extra funding from the UK government to help counter disinformation about the Ukraine war.
The BBC made the request for the money, which will also be used by the Ukrainian and Russian language services to cover urgent and unexpected costs...
"The BBC has seen a big demand for clear, fact-based, impartial journalism to counter disinformation and our teams are working around the clock to bring people the very best independent journalism," BBC director general Tim Davie said.
That would be "clear, fact-based, impartial journalism" unless the issue has anything to do with the environment, climate, energy, sustainability, gender politics, immigration, history, education, free speech, personal choice, the TV licence, race, politics, the EU, Donald Trump or Joe Biden.
I've long thought the the BBC wished to be the official English language media source for the EU and in spite of Brexit still hasn't given up on the idea. This is not my clear, fact-based impartial view, merely a guess.
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"The BBC made the request for the money, which will also be used by the Ukrainian and Russian language services to cover urgent and unexpected costs..."
The BBC costs around £3.7bn per year, apparently, so that sort of money would be small change. I'm sure a small group of virtue-signallers (Lineker, Attenborough, Kuenssberg, etc.) could turn out their pockets and sort it immediately.
And note that this is not for our benefit. It's basically the government bunging the BBC some money to broadcast propaganda to other countries.
Sam - "It's basically the government bunging the BBC some money to broadcast propaganda to other countries."
That's the disturbing aspect. Once done it can be done again.
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