Castro not perfect but look at those dastardly Yanks
I’m sick of all this talk about the British
Broadcasting Corporation being biased. It’s patently not true! Take the BBC’s
treatment of two controversial figures, Donald Trump and Fidel Castro. One of
them is a successful businessman and reality TV star who has recently won a
democratic election to lead Britain’s closest ally . The other is a dictator who
brutally repressed millions for five decades and was an avowed enemy of Britain.
More nuanced...
Now if the BBC had a left-wing bias as
we so often hear, you might expect them to go a bit easy on the blood-soaked communist
hero and maybe emphasise the peccadillos of the ‘right-wing’ president-elect.
But the BBC is not biased and a very
simple but fair test proves it. Simply google the words ‘BBC’ and ‘Fidel Castro’
together and see what pops up. Then google ‘BBC’ and ‘Donald Trump’ to see how
the results compare.
To be fair to the BBC, I decided to
give them a pass on their eulogising of Castro since his death. After all we
are not supposed to speak ill of the dead, so at this sad time for the Castro
family you can hardly expect the BBC to bring up his ‘excesses’ and ‘mistakes’
that led to the unfortunate deaths of thousands. In short let’s gloss over
their running with the theme ‘If only he’d had a bit more time…’ So to avoid
the BBC’s understandable reticence to talk ill of the dead I decided to narrow
my goggle search to the 3 months before Castro’s death.
This is the top five BBC stories that
popped up:
The great survivor: Cuba's Fidel Castro turns 90 - BBC
News - BBC.com
As is usually the case the stories
closely matched the tone of the headlines. The first five deal with Fidel’s birthday. A great opportunity you might have thought for the well-informed journalists of the BBC to remind their readers
and viewers of the victims of Castro’s regime. But what you get is all the objectivity of a 12-year-old girl on the subject of Justin Bieber.
So rather than spare a thought for
his many victims it turns out that the BBC were already eulogising Castro long
before he was dead. The last story is particularly inappropriate in that it
parallels the lives of dictator Castro and our constitutional monarch finding
much more to admire in the former than our blameless Queen.
But maybe the BBC just have a thing
for Castro. A youthful enthusiasm of their editors which created a blindspot in
their otherwise objective approach? So as a further check on BBC bias, let’s
see what a google search of ‘BBC’ and ‘Donald Trump’ delivers.
For the next US president I got:
and five more stories on the same
theme, then:
Once again the tone of these
headlines accurately conveys the contemptuous tone of the stories they link to.
The last one is particularly hypocritical as the BBC didn’t seem to find
anybody who thought the nude statues of Hillary that Trump supporters
retaliated with at all amusing. Quite the reverse in fact! In the words of the BBC: ‘Hillary’s naked
portraits were entitled “The Ugly Sides Of Hillary Clinton” in a smear campaign
that many find appalling’.
The BBC is not biased.
To call the BBC biased is a
compliment. Biased suggests a tendency in their journalists to report from a
left-wing perspective. If the BBC was biased you would expect right-wing
journalists to be outnumbered by their progressive colleagues by say 2 to 1 or
maybe 3 to 1. That’s not what we find at the good old Beeb. Of those with known
political leanings there are thousands on the left and a handful, literally a
handful, i.e., less than 5, on the right. The BBC is a propaganda outfit pure
and simple that only employs true believers who will report the ideologically agreed
version despite reality or the facts.
What other conclusion is possible
about a publically-funded British news organisation that presents an oppressive
dictator and enemy of Britain in a far more favourable light than the next president
of our closest and most important ally?
The BBC is not biased. It’s an ugly,
malevolent propaganda outfit that has been muddying waters and poisoning minds for
decades.
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Utterly unarguable.
ReplyDeleteWell said, Mr Maloney.
A fair point with wich I agree. Problem is, what to do about them?
ReplyDeleteThe good news is that thanks to the internet their number is well and truly up. Can you imagine how much they despise the people at http://biasedbbc.org/, for example, who daily expose their lies, half truths and hypocrisy. Brexit showed that the British people are finally leaving the plantation.
DeleteAnita Arnand read out the comment from a listener 'Liberalism is the New Fascism'.
ReplyDeleteAnd I say, The Devil's Truth is a Mocking Irony.