Wikispooks wikispooks https://wikispooks.com/wiki/Main_Page MediaWiki 1.33.2 first-letter Media Special Talk User User talk Wikispooks Wikispooks talk File File talk MediaWiki MediaWiki talk Template Template talk Help Help talk Category Category talk Property Property talk Form Form talk Concept Concept talk Document Document talk Wikipedia Wikipedia talk Test Test talk Widget Widget talk Campaign Campaign talk Module Module talk Gadget Gadget talk Gadget definition Gadget definition talk BBC 0 1576 268487 268464 2023-09-08T06:49:22Z Jun 626 /* Censorship */ circ traffc wikitext text/x-wiki {{group |type=propaganda |constitutes=Corporate media |website=http://www.bbc.co.uk |wikipedia=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC |spinprofiles=http://spinprofiles.org/index.php?title=British_Broadcasting_Corporation |logo=BBC.svg |titular_logo=1 |motto=Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation |start=18 October 1922 |description=A state propaganda apparatus disguised as a quasi-autonomous public service corporation. |headquarters=Broadcasting House, London, United Kingdom |founders=John Reith |leaders=Director-General of the BBC, BBC/Governor, BBC/Chair |num_staff=20736 |powerbase=http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/BBC |sourcewatch=http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/BBC |sponsors=Trusted News Initiative }} The '''British Broadcasting Corporation''' ('''BBC''') is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world.<ref name="AboutBBC">[http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/what.shtml ''About the BBC – What is the BBC'']</ref> In terms itself an "autonomous public service broadcaster"<ref name="AboutBBC"/> operating under a royal charter<ref name="RC">[http://www.privy-council.org.uk/output/page26.asp What is a UK 'Royal Charter' ?]</ref>. The BBC's main responsibility under its charter is to provide "public service broadcasting" within the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Outside the United Kingdom the BBC broadcasts commercially funded channels such as BBC America, BBC Canada, and BBC World News. It also has a substantial presence on the [[internet]].<ref>http://bbc.co.uk</ref> ==Origins== The BBC was the first national state broadcasting organisation. <ref name="historicalbroadcaster">[http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm BBC History - The BBC takes to the Airwaves]</ref> Founded on as the 'British Broadcasting Company Ltd', it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter <ref name="RC"/> and was made a publicly funded corporation in 1927. The stated mission of the BBC is ''"to inform, educate and entertain"'' - as laid down by Parliament in the BBC Charter; <ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/ BBC website: ''About the BBC - Purpose and values'']</ref>. The BBC is run by the BBC Trust (strapline: ''"Getting the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers"'')<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/index.shtml BBC Trust Web Site]</ref>. Per its charter, its should be "free from both political and commercial influence and answer[able] only to its viewers and listeners".<ref>[http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/about/how_we_govern/charter_and_agreement/ BBC Royal Charter and Agreement]</ref> ===The 1926 General Strike=== {{FA|1926 United Kingdom general strike}} The [[UK General Strike of 1926]] indicated how the BBC was to be run. [[John Reith]], then general manager of the BBC (later [[BBC director general]]), confided to his diary: "''The Cabinet decision is really a negative one. They want to be able to say that they did not commandeer us, but they know they can trust us not to be really impartial.''" <ref>C. Stuart (ed.) ''The Reith Diaries'' (1975)</ref> Reith explained it like this "''since the BBC was a national institution, and since the government in this crisis was acting for the people... the BBC was for the government in the crisis too.''"<ref>Michael Gurevitch, Culture, Society, and the Media (Routledge, 1982) p.302</ref> [[John Pilger]] contrasts the actual implementation of a policy on impartiality with the literal meaning. He stated in 2007 that {{SMWQ |format=inline_italics |source_URL=http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18046.htm |date=June 16 2007 |authors=John Pilger |subjects=John Reith, BBC, Stanley Baldwin, UK/DS |source_title=The Invisible Government |source_details= Speech delivered at the Chicago Socialism 2007 |source_name=Information Clearing House |text=The BBC began in 1922, just before the corporate press began in America. Its founder was Lord [[John Reith]], who believed that impartiality and objectivity were the essence of professionalism. In the same year the British establishment was under siege. The unions had called a general strike and the Tories were terrified that a revolution was on the way. The new BBC came to their rescue. In high secrecy, Lord Reith wrote anti-union speeches for the [[Tory]] [[Prime Minister]] [[Stanley Baldwin]] and broadcast them to the nation, while refusing to allow the labor leaders to put their side until the strike was over. So, a pattern was set. Impartiality was a principle certainly: a principle to be suspended whenever the [[establishment]] was under threat. And that principle has been upheld ever since.}} ==Deep state control== {{FA|BBC/Deep state control}} [[Bilderberg]] trustee and [[Bilderberg/Steering committee|steering committee]] member, [[Marcus Agius]] is a Senior Independent Director of the BBC and was the first non-executive director appointed to the BBC's new Executive Board.<ref name="bbcbio">http://www.bbc.co.uk/aboutthebbc/insidethebbc/managementstructure/biographies/agius_marcus.html</ref> The clearest evidence is that the BBC remains de facto subservient to the [[deep state]] is in its handling of [[deep events]]. ===Vetting by the Intelligence Services=== Perhaps the clearest evidence that the covert control exercised over the BBC throughout the post [[WW2]] period to about the mid 1980's is provided by the systematic [[MI5]] vetting of senior (and not-so-senior) BBC appointments and projects.<ref>[[Document:MI5 and the Christmas Tree Files|"MI5 and the Christmas Tree Files"]]</ref> [[Daphne Park]], a senior [[MI6]] officer, was a [[governer of the BBC]] from 1982 to 1986. ===Andrew Gilligan affair=== A latter-day example of BBC subservience was provided by the treatment accorded [[Andrew Gilligan]], one of its reporters, over his broadcast claims about the 'sexing up' of the 'Iraq Dossier' used to justify the UK's participation in the invasion of Iraq and which led to the death of UN Weapons Inspector [[David Kelly|Dr David Kelly]]. In spite of Gilligan's claims being largely vindicated by subsequent revelations, he was forced to resign from the BBC, as was its Chairman [[Gavyn Davies]] and its Director General [[Greg Dyke]]. ===BBC rejects humanitarian appeal=== In the 2008/2009 attack on [[Gaza]] by [[Israel]] known as [[Operation Cast Lead]] killed at least 1,417 people<ref>[http://www.pchrgaza.org/files/PressR/English/2008/36-2009.html Palestinian Centre for Human Rights] (19 March 2009). "Confirmed figures reveal the true extent of the destruction inflicted upon the Gaza Strip; Israel’s offensive resulted in 1,417 dead, including 926 civilians, 255 police officers, and 236 fighters.".</ref> (mostly women and children) were killed and more than 3,000 homes and hundreds of other properties, including factories, workshops, animal farms and orchards, as well as government buildings, police stations and prisons, were destroyed and more than 20,000 were damaged.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/shared/bsp/hi/pdfs/02_07_09_gaza_report.pdf Amnesty Report on "Operation Cast Lead"] more than 3,000 homes and hundreds of other properties, including factories, workshops, animal farms and orchards, as well as government buildings, police stations and prisons, were destroyed and more than 20,000 were damaged. July 2009.</ref><ref>[http://www2.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/docs/12session/A-HRC-12-48.pdf Goldstone Report on "Operation Cast Lead".</ref> {{QB|"The level of human suffering and destruction I saw today is, from any angle, heartbreaking. It is shocking that civilians suffered so disproportionately in this military operation". <br/>''UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator [[John Holmes]], 22 January 2009''}} The Disasters Emergency Committee launched a public appeal to support its humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza, which the BBC refused to broadcast on grounds of "Upholding the BBC's hard won reputation for impartiality"<ref>[http://www.dec.org.uk/item/347 Disaster Emergency Committee Appeal for Gaza]</ref><ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/24/bbc-gaza-palestine-aid-appeal BBC refusal to broadcast DEC appeal - The Guardian 24 Jan 2009]</ref> <ref>[http://www.medialens.org/alerts/09/090123_the_bbc_refuses.php Media Lens of the BBC refusal to broadcast the DEC appeal for Gaza]</ref> The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, accused the broadcaster of taking sides, "This is not a row about impartiality but rather about humanity". Communities secretary Hazel Blears said: "I sincerely hope the BBC will urgently review its decision."<ref>[http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/jan/24/bbc-gaza-palestine-aid-appeal BBC crisis over refusal to broadcast Gaza appeal] 24 January 2009.</ref> It did not. ==Output== {{FA|BBC/Propaganda}} Not ''all'' BBC material should be thought of as propaganda - the majority of it is the work of well intentioned people. Nevertheless, it would be naive to assume that it is all produced in good faith. Considering its motto "Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation", the exploitation of the BBC for war propaganda is as hypocritical as it is odious. [[Robert Stuart]] deserves commendation for his efforts to expose the case of [[Dr Rola]] in this regard. [[image:The Power of Nightmares.jpg|333px|right|thumbnail|[[Adam Curtis]]' ''[[Power Of Nightmares]]'']] ===Exceptional material=== [[image:Operation Gladio (film).jpg|333px|right|thumbnail|[[Alan Francovich]]'s [[Operation Gladio (film)|1992 expose]] of [[Operation Gladio]] is the exception to the rule about BBC output pushing the [[UK establishment]]'s {{on}}]] The BBC ''does'' broadcast highly creditable material on occasions, and has even broadcast material which has assisted in revealing the [[deep state]]. Most notable in this regard is [[Allan Francovich]]'s [[Operation Gladio (film)|1992 expose]] of [[Operation Gladio]], which was broadcast once on BBC 2. [[Film maker]] [[Adam Curtis]] stopped short of exposing [[9/11]] as a [[false flag attack]], but his series ''[[The Power of Nightmares]]'' did argue powerfully on BBC that [[Al Qaeda]] was a creation of the US government and that [[fear]] of "terrorism" was being used cynically for political purposes. ==Censorship== ===Paedophiles=== In 2015, while the [[Operation Yewtree]] into abuse allegations from within the British media was going on, John Lydon of The Sex Pistols announced in an interview in which he made comments about the rumours surrounding the BBC [[TV]] and Radio presenter [[Jimmy Savile]], that he was banned from the BBC for his accusations in [[1978]]. In the [[2010s]], he announced that he believed his exclusion from the broadcasting service was the result of someone from high up in the BBC wanting to silence the allegations against Savile. Allegations which, unfortunately, proved to be true. {{YouTubeVideo |code=esKnWAIgpLY |align=left |width=400px |caption=BBC banned Johnny Rotten in 1978 for telling the truth about Jimmy Savile |date=2015 }} ==Members== The BBC ''is'' censored on topics of particular importance to the [[deep state]]. On occasions the BBC has commissioned and paid for exposes but then failed to broadcast them after intervention from senior establishment figures.<ref>http://www.unwelcomeguests.net/716</ref> For example, like the rest of the {{ccm}}, they followed the [[9-11]] attacks by countless repeats of the collapse of [[9-11/WTC Controlled demolition|World Trade Centers 1 & 2]] (often with an inset image of [[Osama Bin Laden]]), but for years had literally nothing to say about [[9-11/WTC7]]. They also removed reference to Bin Laden's murder from an interview with [[Benazir Bhutto]].<ref>https://sites.google.com/site/censorshipbythebbc/bbc-censors-benazir</ref> {{FA|BBC/Censorship}} {{YouTubeVideo |code=0ZqP8moItcc |align=right |width=400px |caption=A video from the archives shows the BBC reporting on the collapse of WTC Building 7 over twenty minutes before it fell at 5:20pm on the afternoon of 9/11. The incredible footage shows BBC reporter Jane Standley talking about the collapse of the Salomon Brothers Building while it remains standing in the live shot behind her head. How did the BBC know that it was going to collapse? And why did they report the collapse when it is clearly standing in the background? |date=2001 }} ==Funding== Within the UK, it is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts. The level of the fee is set annually by the UK Government and agreed by Parliament. In 2012, [[Tony Rooke]] refused to pay his BBC license, citing Section 15 of the [[2000 Terrorism Act]], which states that "it is an offence for someone to invite another to provide money, intending that it should be used, or having reasonable cause to suspect that it may be used, for [[terrorism]] purposes".<ref>http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2284337/TV-licence-evader-refused-pay-BBC-covered-facts-9-11.html</ref> ==Discrimination== The BBC uses anti-white discrimination for job applications.<ref>https://neonnettle.com/news/15667-bbc-blocks-white-people-from-applying-for-production-job</ref> Many BBC employees have [[white guilt]]. White people were banned from applying for jobs in June 2021.<ref>https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1452228/bbc-job-advert-bans-white-people-bame-ethnic-minorities-uk-media-jobs</ref> BBC Radio London fired two popular presenters [[Robert Elms]] and [[Jo Good]] because they are white.<ref>https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9930917/Popular-BBC-radio-hosts-sidelined-religion-diversity.html</ref> ==COVID-19== {{FA|COVID-19/Media Manipulation}} The BBC has pushed the [[ON]] on [[COVID]]. During that time they have taken on some interesting hires. *[[Marianna Spring]], Specialist [[disinformation]] reporter *[[Rachel Schraer]], Health and disinformation reporter ==NATO== The BBC has always had a close relationship with the military.<ref>https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/ See this article for further discussion</ref> Between [[2007]] and [[2008]], longtime BBC producer and news presenter [[Victoria Cook]] was simultaneously collecting a paycheck from [[NATO]], working as a journalist and media trainer.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/victoria-cook-14b3a05a/</ref> [[Oana Lungescu]] left her job as a correspondent at the [[BBC World Service]] in [[2010]] to take a job as a [[NATO spokesperson]].<ref>https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-born-journalist-oana-lungescu-the-new-nato-spokesperson</ref> Another BBC employee who went through the BBC-to-NATO-pipeline is [[Mark Laity]], who left his position as the network’s defense correspondent to become the deputy spokesman to NATO Secretary General [[Lord Robertson]].<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-laity-b6b86b6/details/experience/</ref> [[David McGee]] also left his role as a news producer for the BBC to work for NATO – in this case as a media manager, where he, in his own words, "Provided PR support to military and civilian stakeholders for external communications audience," and, "Undertook crisis management of news events for [the] U.S. military."<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidmcgeelinkedin/details/experience/</ref> [[Terence Sach]], who left his job as an intelligence and security analyst at the [[U.K. Ministry of Defense]] in 2017 to become an information security specialist at the BBC.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/terence-sach/?originalSubdomain=uk</ref> Between 1994 and 2014, for example, [[Sulaiman Radmanish]] worked for the [[BBC World Service]], primarily helping to produce content targeting the Afghan population. Over a similar time period (2005-2014), he worked as a video editor for NATO, "edit[ing] short Psyops clips"<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/sulaiman-radmanish-610b3232/</ref> according to his LinkedIn profile. It is surely no coincidence that his work with both the BBC and NATO ended in the same year as Britain’s withdrawal from Afghanistan – a country it had been occupying since 2001. Another operative with one foot in both NATO and the BBC was [[Bojan Lazic]]. At the same time as being a full-time [[psychological operations] specialist for NATO, Lazic moonlighted as a BBC technical consultant. This employment coincided with NATO’s bombing of Lazic’s homeland of [[Yugoslavia]].<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/serboswiss/details/experience/</ref> One example of this is the BBC’s newly appointed [[Khushru Cooper]], BBC’s head of assurance, also is a commissioned British Army officer – a post he has held for 20 years.<ref>https://www.linkedin.com/in/khushrucooper/</ref> ==Summary== The BBC has not been immune from the general decline in reportorial standards and a move away from [[investigative journalism]].<ref>https://www.commentarymagazine.com/articles/the-timothy-hunt-witch-hunt/</ref> Whilst inquirers will undoubtedly be informed that these were all unfortunate aberrations from which lessons have been learned, there is every reason to suppose that, just like the Ronnie Corbett character in the John Cleese/Ronnie Barker/Ronnie Corbett video sketch, when it comes to deep political issues of the UK [[Establishment]], the BBC continues to "know its place".<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0DUsGSMwZY John Cleese & The Two Ronnies video sketch 'I know my place']</ref> {{SMWDocs}} ==External sites== *[http://www.kadaitcha.com/page/23/?s Beyond the Fringe article - 24 January 2010], on the BBC refusal to Broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Gaza ==References== {{reflist|2}} qt0tjys3uhuydmqqnik7hye8fbhfa7v