Greg Dyke's self satisfaction at standing up to the government & announcing, via BBC news,
that the BBC had beaten its adversary may be short lived.
While the interest of most of the population waned early on in the BBC- Campbell
battle their latent distrust of BBC news could be significant & long lived.
While politicians are often judged by the public to be capable of exaggeration
& dishonesty and the media can be taken in context with its political leanings.
The BBC had built up a reputation over the decades for fairness & integrity.
The BBC should have realised early on in this dispute that airing this battle
with such fortitude failed to recognise the old saying, mud sticks.. And stick it will.
Is there now a single news presenter in the BBC/ Current Affairs department who will be
trusted to speak fairly about anything.
The faith & prestige between the BBC and it's licence payers has been built up over decades.
The news department has long been living on its heritage of balance & fairness while turning out mediocre programmes, some full of bias & prejudice.
The airing of this dispute has brought a focus on the integrity of the BBC News department.
It has started the population thinking & re-assessing its opinion of the BBC.
The BBC, with its inability to stay above the fray has allowed itself to become 'The News'
instead of 'The News Broadcaster'. This has contaminated its presenters and its programmes.
No longer will it be able to broadcast opinions on anything controversial without the
thought that it is yet again promoting its own agenda.
Panorama
Max Wolfe 18 May 2003
The BBC news department continues with its season of anti American programs by bringing us a
slightly paranoid assessment of the neo conservative think tank in the American Institute.
Underlining the fact that it still doesn't understand the basic reality of Islamic Fundamentalism
but that it can criticise our American friends as they speak fluent English.
BBC2 Correspondent
Max Wolfe 18 May 2003
This BBC programme aired on 18th May 2003 was anti-American anti-British, and against the British national interest.
BBC News should be stripped of its licence fee and its use of the British name.
Why should we financially support such anti British sentiments. BBC news should be privatised as soon as
possible and given the editorial freedom it deserves.
The BBC news department continues its war of words over why Tony Blair was wrong to take us into the Iraqi war.
It's failed attempt to cast light on an interesting subject "The Media at War" proved to be just another attempt
by the BBC to bash the US and UK governments. It made no mention of the past failures of the media that
had brought this situation into being. It wreaked of prejudice from beginning to end.
The BBC used it's guise of 'media balance and objectivity' to cloak it's opposition to the war.
It was almost as if the BBC was miffed that it wasn't included in government decisions.
The most frightening thing about BBC news is that it does not see it's own failings. Putting up a daily guest
list of second rate pundits on Radio four who just happen to agree to it's perverse opinions might look alright
in the BBC bar but it looks a bit daft in the spotlight of media glare.
Between the lines the BBC says that it wishes the US & the UK had lost this war then the BBC would have
been able to adopt an attitude of 'I told you so'. As it is, we just have to go on listening to their
ignorance & blind prejudice while paying for the privilege.
BBC FAILS TO SUPPORT BLAIR
Counterblast to be broadcast by the BBC tonight accuses Nato of murder and Tony Blair of being 'missile-mad'.
"It is perfectly legitimate for personal opinion to be heard on the BBC," so says the director of BBC TV, Alan
Yentob as he justifies putting out an outrageous anti-government programme, in a time of war.
What is not being said is that The BBC has developed it's own ethos of morality which is above government
thinking, beyond the man in the street and a dangerous evolvement of intellectual superiority.
The BBC has taken upon itself the mantel of 'saviour of our morals'.
As it expands it's culture to take on every world wide media organisation from local radio, the Internet, Digital TV
and 24 Hour Sky News it has erroneously fragmented it's core belief, 'The British Perspective'.
It stood against the bombing of Baghdad, surreptitiously forgetting the gassing of the Shiites, the murder of
Kurds and opposition groups.
Now it fails to put across the morality of defeating the serial ethnic cleanser Milosovic. Why ?
The BBC has become anti-American and anti-British because it feels itself to be in a bigger ball game than mere politics.
It is time the government let the people of Britain opt out of it's legal obligation to pay the BBC Tax and fund this corrupt moralising.