News in the UK is the propaganda of the oligarch, amplified by the BBC.
This week's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
This week's column.
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
For the BBC, politics begin and end in Westminster. But all new and thrilling political ideas are hatched outside the citadel of power. By excluding "marginal" issues and "marginal" voices, the BBC ensures it's always aligned with the status quo, and always behind the curve.
The really big questions – such as the gathering collapse of our life support systems – are, most days, off the agenda. Above all, because the BBC is unconsciously led by the oligarchs’ agenda, it fails to confront the biggest issue in politics: money.
The BBC represents politics as a matter of preferences, rather than as a matter of interests. This bias is not trivial: the primary political conflict is between democratic power and the power of money. The BBC's blindness to this issue is calamitous for our democracy.
Far from challenging the power of money in politics, every day @BBCNews provides an unchallenged platform to those who promote it: lobbyists, trade associations and opaquely funded thinktanks.
Rupert Murdoch doesn't need to take it over: the BBC is doing the job for him.
Rupert Murdoch doesn't need to take it over: the BBC is doing the job for him.
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