The ‘greater truth’

Harry Phibbs has a useful CAPX piece on the increasingly ghastly BBC. 


The BBC’s arrogance will be its downfall

• Our national broadcaster has shown itself to be a purveyor of disinformation
• Reading the BBC's politicised interpretation of events does not count as impartial news
• To survive, the BBC must take some accountability and move to a subscription model

The extent of the hubris is remarkable. The BBC has been caught out in an appalling act of disinformation. Panorama doctored a Donald Trump speech to falsely show him supporting rioting. This has been described as ‘a mistake’ – as if it were some kind of technical glitch. But the misrepresentation was clearly deliberate – Trump’s call to protest ‘peacefully’ was spliced and diced into a call to ‘fight’.

For the BBC, it was all in the cause of presenting Trump as a baddie. If there is a piece of inconvenient evidence which doesn’t fit that narrative, then it must be twisted to ensure it does. The BBC staff will smugly convince themselves this is morally justified, providing viewers with the ‘greater truth’.


BBC bias will be familiar to all but the hopelessly deluded, but the whole piece is well worth reading because Phibbs makes a key point in the above paragraph, his point about the 'greater truth'. 

This type of 'we know best' mendacity lies behind climate change, Net Zero and various threads of what generally seems to be a covert Fabian agenda. The mendacity is intentional - clearly so.