PrintJuly 21, 2007
Life Imitates the BBC
The current scandal involving the BBC is just the tip of a very large iceberg. Its cutting-room trickery designed to make the British queen appear fractious and ridiculous was all just a regrettable mistake says the BBC. Cynics, on the other hand, might think that this ‘mistake' chimes rather too coincidentally with the British chattering class' disdain for monarchy.This was tacky journalism for sure but not, you might think, anything too sinister. The really big lie however is the one that says that this particular piece of manipulation is just an unfortunate lapse in the BBC's normally impeccable standards of truth telling. For the truth is that the BBC - in common with all other big media brands - manipulates reality every week, every hour, every minute.The range of ‘information' and opinion in which we are almost completely reliant on it is frightening. And yet notice how whenever the media machine touches on something about which you have direct personal experience,...(Read Full Article)
