Thread by @docrussjackson

This is a good book review by @Dorianlynskey of the book "The War Against the @BBC". Everyone should read it.

My only caveat is I'd have liked anti-Corbyn Dorian to at least mention @BBCPolitics' & @BBCNews' relentless demonization of Corbyn & the Left.

theguardian.com/books/2020/nov…

"It is hard work trying to bring down the @BBC when the masses stubbornly insist on enjoying and trusting its output, so the wheels of grievance require constant oiling by newspapers, thinktanks and opaquely funded pressure groups."

This process is now relentless.

"The @BBC’s political coverage consistently favours the government of the day, with a more pronounced bias when that government is Conservative. Taking its cues (and many of its guests) from the conservative-dominated print media, it overrepresents the right".

This just a fact.

The Right's relentless campaign is knowingly unwinnable "because, like most culture wars, it relies on granting righteous victimhood to the powerful... The right would be lost without its perpetual indignation machine."

The evidence of #bias is clear:

https://twitter.com/docrussjackson/status/1206992914594828288

"If you want to see a news broadcasting ecosystem that conforms to the Tory blueprint, look to the #USA, where the barely regulated free market has enabled partisanship, #distrust, #disinformation & #conspiracism to erode the shared reality on which a healthy #democracy depends."

For a superior analysis, & another excellent book, please have a read of this article by @GeorgeMonbiot:

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Impartiality is not just about balance. It’s about the way you construct a picture of the world. But @BBC bosses, as Tom Mills, author of The BBC: Myth of a Public Service, points out, simply refuse to engage with these objections. They see the surface. They don’t see the depths.

"The @BBC’s appeasement of monied power, both conscious and unconscious, won’t save it. Like Donald Trump, the billionaire owners of the newspapers are constitutionally dissatisfied. However much wealth and power they accumulate, they cannot fill the hole in their hearts."

"They supported Johnson for a specific purpose: to destroy obstacles to their power – tax, public protections & public institutions. For all its failings, I want to save the @BBC. I want to save it from the oligarchs & from the govt. But above all, I want to save it from itself."