HARRY BLACKWOOD reports that even the
BBC switchboard operators are doing the bidding of The Establishment.
REMEMBER
the days when the BBC was synonymous with balanced coverage, impartiality and
good reporting? Well, you must be very, very old.
Sadly,
those days are long gone, but there's one thing that's absolutely certain; it's
going from bad to worse. The best illustration of how the BBC simply trots out
endless piles of propaganda on behalf of the powers that be, can summed up in
just one word. It's the ECONOMY stupid.
For the
last few months, we have endured a regular diet of good news from the BBC.
Unemployment down. Number of people in work up. Wages might start to rise ...
soon. House sales picking up.
It's been
endless good news about the economy. Britain is booming.
The
impartiality machine must have been well and truly turned off at Broadcasting
House. So blatantly propagandist has this nonsense been that the BBC may have
just arranged for Government Ministers to do a PowerPoint presentation live on
the news or civil servants reading out a press release on Blue Peter.
But I'm
guessing they must have been getting complaints from those of us in the real
world, because on Tuesday morning they pressed the reality check button and
sent their business editor Steph McGovern out to talk to real people about the
economy.
Guess
what? Whole different ball game. Steph went to a market in Leeds and aside from
a financial advisor whose interests it's in to talk up the economy, the
consensus seemed to be that Britain's economy is going down the pan.
