Breaking up the BBC
Posted on February 17, 2004
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Talk about shooting the messenger:
The government is considering a plan to break up the BBC and remove its independent status in the wake of a bitter row with the state-funded broadcaster over the Iraq war, a report said.
The dispute came after a BBC radio report alleged in May last year that Prime Minister Tony Blair’s government deliberately exaggerated the threat posed by Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction in a pre-war dossier.
Plans being considered include giving a government media watchdog greater control over the BBC’s output
How embarrassing: to be outted by by the state-run media agency well before being outted by your own Parliament. And the best solution they can come up with is to dissolve the independence of the media in the hopes of creating a more complacent propaganda-friendly mouthpiece instead? The world doesn’t need another one of those, we already have CNN.
The BBC is considered one of the most trusted news sources in the world, renowed for its willingness to cover hard stories without whitewashing facts. To lose the BBC to such political heavy-handedness would truly be a shame.
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