One of the BBC’s fundamental failings, built into its composition, is that it is in place to suppress the truth.

2358 GMT
London
Wednesday 02 December 2009:

Editor © Muhammad Haque.

One of the BBC’s fundamental failings, built into its composition, is that it is in place to suppress the truth. And this built in flaw mars everything about its self-praised world-class journalism. This comes across in the utterance made to an MPs' Committee by Mark Thompson in the wake of Jonathan Ross’s incitement to insult an innocent family and the attendant acts of verbal and atmospheric violence on BBC radio. Mark Thompson, posing as the ‘Editor in Chief’ of the BBC, faked it furiously without realising that his fakery was an affront to all those who have fought for the right to tell the truth against powerful gangs that hold the positions of power in states. And in States. Thompson referred to the particular edition of the Mail on Sunday that had led with the disclosures on the serious disservice to public service broadcasting as done on the BBC by Ross and his chum Russell Brand. Thompson displayed as deep an ignorance about ‘BBC journalism’ and the other journalism that he was obviously arrogantly peddling. The BBC used to host, after the so-called Independent TV alternative Granada dropped the long running WHAT THE PAPERS SAY [=WTPS] programme. By the time the BBC got hold of controlling the scheduling and the editorial contents, WTPS lost all its key attractions. It was reduced to what can only be described as a Mark Thompson-edited toy unworthy of the many really serious journalists who had contributed to that significant programme. Now there is no trace of the WTPS on any BBC slots or sites. May be they will bring back the programme with the bite and the impatience against lying and liars so firmly established by the likes of Paul Foot, Richard Ingrams who were among that programme’s correctly highly regarded presenters during the decades of its life. Like the PRIVATE EYE of Francis Wheen and Ian Hislop, the WTPS of the BBC was worse than a poor parody of its Granada heyday. And so is the grotesque imitation that is now carried nightly on the News Channel in the shape of the dismissively presented ‘newspaper front pages’. As we have pointed out before, the News Channel fronter called Chris Ekin is not a suitable person to control the few minutes that are allowed to a guest. The guest, who have included the Sunday Peoples’ Political Editor Nigel Nelson, should be allowed to do the whole slot in their own way without being prompted by the BBC news Channel fronter. Had they been then the viewers would have seen a bit of the truth of what the newspapers were reporting. Tonight’s slot included a flash of the FT talking about the decline of Industry during the Blaired years. This is something that lies at the very heart of the state of the ‘British’ ‘economy’ and deserves serious examination. With the FT early edition front page running on the subject, the slot should have been given over to an objectively defined independent look at how the other papers have been covering the reality of the economy leading upto the crisis that dominates the country now… And this should have in fact included an examination of the issue by contexting it in the PMQ of the day as well… But the BBC cannot be expected to do that. Telling the truth is worrying for the BBC bureaucracy. And Editor Mark Thompson is not a journalist. Nor indeed has he the qualifications to call himself editor or Editor. He is the man who was deeply involved as the 'chief executive' at the Pornography Channel before he moved back to the BBC. What can he tell the ‘Nation’ about the truth! And what does he care! No wonder that the ‘Nation is in an economic and financial crisis’. Had the BBC been telling the truth about the big business and about the bankers and the City of London and the Military industrial Complex the ‘Nation’ would have been spared £Trillions of debts and wastes and losses…. That would indeed have been something really worthy of ‘world class’ categorisation… Instead the BBC has peddled lies for Big Business as typified in its flogging of the CRASSLY conceived Crossrail which it has wrongly and untruthfully linked to the status of ‘London’ as a world class city… This is a triple confusion and falsehood. Just like the BBC’s peddling of Crossrail has been on so many levels. [To be continued]

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