March 26
2007
Take our money, then stop us seeing how it's spent
» Posted on March 26, 2007 03:01 PM » Category: BBC

The BBC. This is what they do:

The BBC has been accused of "shameful hypocrisy" over its decision to spend £200,000 blocking a freedom of information request about its reporting in the Middle East.

The corporation, which has itself made extensive use of FOI requests in its journalism, is refusing to release papers about an internal inquiry into whether its reporting has been biased towards Palestine.

BBC chiefs have been accused of wasting thousands of pounds of licence fee payers money trying to cover-up the findings of the so called Balen Report into its journalism in the region, despite the fact that the corporation is funded by the British public.

The corporation is fighting a landmark High Court action, which starts next week, in a bid to prevent the public finding out what is in the review, which is believed to be critical of the BBC's coverage in the region.

...The BBC's decision to carry on pursuing the case, despite the fact than the Information Tribunal said it should make the report public, has sparked fury as it flies in the face of claims by BBC chiefs that it is trying to make the corporation more open and transparent.

Genius. The BBC spends the money we give it to fight the attempt to make public a report which - purportedly - shows the bias in its reporting. So it uses our money to stop us seeing its own evidence showing that we fund a Biased Broadcating Corporation.

The BBC. That's what it does.


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The chief function of the BBC is to supply a democratic Left view of the world. It is as stupid objecting that it manufactures anti-Israel (or any other Left of centre) shibboleths as it would be to complain that The Guardian fails to put the case for smaller government.

OK the BBC [and if they had got their own way the only radio and television in this country would only be the BBC) is paid for out of taxation, but that is par for the course for Leftists. In the not too distant past some regimes got the people they executed to pay for their own bullets. Remind me again why a BBC employee has to care about your views?

Stated by: Chris Goodman on March 26, 2007 4:36 PM
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