#Panodrama: The Zombie BBC

This was the BBC's top investigative journalist

                                           

Sometimes a stab victim will stumble on a surprising distance thinking he has just been punched only to collapse and die from a wound to their heart.

That's the BBC after Tommy Robinson's stunning #Panodrama exposé of their corruption, lies and prejudice.

Maybe you think I'm over-egging my omelette. After all, the BBC is still firing on all channels. And Radio 4 sounds as confident and unimpeachable as ever.

But nevertheless the BBC is in fact dead. Tommy didn't actually kill it so much as prove that there is no pulse in the BBC zombie that crashes around our culture looking for its next victim.

I still detect a certain scepticism. No doubt you are thinking about the BBC's vast £5 billion income; its TV channels and radio stations; its labyrinthine studios; it's prestigious offices, its stellar personalities, etc.

But yet for all that, the BBC is dead.

That's because the only BBC asset worth a damn is the trust of its audience. Once they lose that, they are a dead. 

And that trust depends entirely on the BBC being liberal, principled and impartial. That's the only BBC that has any right to exist.

Once enough people lose that trust, the BBC is a dead man walking. It may stumble on as a zombie for a while. But sooner or later a campaign to abolish the licence fee can and will succeed, and all those channels and radio stations will go dark.

Further confirmation that the BBC is dead comes from their reaction to  #Panodrama: i.e. NONE.

If there was any life in the BBC corpse, then the revelations in #Panodrama would have resulted in at least a twitch of some sort. There would be a statement, investigations, expressions of remorse, and mass firings. None of that has happened or will happen because the old liberal and impartial BBC that cared about good journalism and honesty is entirely dead. Only a zombie remains that looks a bit like an old friend.

If you doubt the depth of the journalistic depravity of Panorama and its chief journalist, John Sweeney, watch #Panodrama (above). One look at his and his team's body language throughout Tommy's exposé will tell you all you need to know. Their slumped dejection is that of people whose life's work has just been shown up as an utter fraud.

As James Delingpole puts it:

'This was intended to be a hatchet job, pure and simple, conducted by the left-liberal Establishment in cahoots with a far-left propaganda organisation to get Tommy.'

That's what activists like those at Hope Not Hate do. That's not what impartial BBC journalists do. And yet that's exactly what they did.

That's why the Panorama team look so crushed. 

Their reputation is dead. And the BBC is a dead man walking.



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