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.
5 comments:
Mendacity is a wunnerful word ... it is so comprehensive and apt when describing Westminster and Whitehall.
The 'greater truth', the 'noble lie', are all lies made to manipulate your thoughts.
There's a program on TV called 'Faking It' where a body language expert, a linguistic expert and a profiler analyse video recordings of people later found guilty of crimes.
In some senses it's an easy analysis as by the time the program is made to accused have been found guilty. But... it does make you attentive to the body language and words used by politicians (and others) in interviews.
I watched an interview with the (ex) CEO of BBC News Deborah Turness today who looked away as she denied that the BBC was institutionally biased.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt .
I wonder what a body language expert would make of it?
"Harry Phibbs": if you believe in nominative determinism he's destined to be a Labour politician.
James - and they all support Menda City FC.
DJ - as I understand it, looking away indicates unease when someone is about to lie and knows it. The trouble is, we may do this when searching for the right word or an elusive memory. Yet body language does seem to convey signals about internal states - Keir Starmer often seems unable to hide his unease for example.
dearieme - I do believe it, Anthony Charles Lynton Blair always came across as a wrong 'un.
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