John Humphrys, the Remain supporting, lead presenter of the BBC Radio 4 Today Programme, has just launched a scathing attack on BBC Bias in the Daily Mail (21/9/2019). He says this of the BBC after the EU Referendum:
"The morning of the EU Referendum was different. Leave had won – and this was not what the BBC had expected. Nor what it wanted.
No nods and smiles when the big bosses appeared. No attempt to pretend that this was anything other than a disaster. Their expressions were as grim as the look on the face of a football supporter when his team’s star player misses the penalty that would have won them the cup."
Humphrys then goes on to say that there were no orders from above, the bias was largely due to editors and presenters such as himself who all supported Remain and knew from the demeanor of their bosses that they were free to campaign against Brexit, despite the fact that there had just been a Referendum and the issue was decided. It is the BBC that is deliberately polarising the country. Humphrys noted that any journalist who crossed the BBC line on an issue was "courageous".
He mentioned that Robin Aitken, a senior journalist who had worked on many jobs such as the Money Programme, was almost the only journalist who was courageous enough to confront the BBC Management with their bias. He submitted a detailed dossier to the Director General and Governors describing how "the BBC was wholeheartedly and unashamedly pro-EU", it was ignored until, as Aitken told Humphrys, one day "someone came along and just told me to f**k off".
Strangely Humphrys and Aitken seem to have been unaware of the fact that the most senior levels of the BBC were indeed representing organisations that desired the UK to Remain in the EU. Rona Fairhead was appointed by David Cameron to lead the BBC through the period of the EU Referendum. Fairhead was an HSBC director of the Luxembourg subsidiary responsible for using EU rules to funnel billions of company profits out of the UK to tax havens. Fairhead even attended a secretive meeting of the European Movement's Bilderberg Group before the referendum. James Harding, the senior BBC manager responsible for news impartiality, was a keen supporter of Common Purpose, an organisation that spreads pro-EU propaganda and he approved the induction of numerous BBC staff onto Common Purpose "courses".
It was the role of senior management to stop Remain bias but they did nothing. They are responsible.
The almost complete suppression of any mention by the BBC of the group that runs nearly all the Remain campaigns, a group called the "European Movement", is probably a result of this BBC senior management involvement. (See The UK vs The European Movement). The suppression of virtually any mention of the European Movement by the broadcast media is a National Scandal. They are so powerful that journalists dare not talk of them.
There runs a thread throughout Humphrys' and Aitken's criticisms of the BBC that describes BBC staff as highly educated and hence likely to support certain viewpoints. This misses the point. Middle and Upper Class people are highly educated. The BBC represents a government funded attack on ordinary people by this class.
The EU Referendum has exposed this naked classism most clearly.
Who are these modern upper class, educated people? There is talk of the "Liberal" Elite in Aitken and Humphrys' critiques. This is nonsense. The classist members of the BBC are the "Corporate Elite". BBC employees are not leftist, they are corporate. They support Corporate life such as working for the BBC and by extension big multinational corporations and the public sector. Their idea of the enemy is the small businessperson in a white van or the independent entrepreneur. The free spirits, the people who dare their income against their wits every week and the people who risk all they have accumulated on yet another business venture. These are the true enemy of the corporatist because they demonstrate the virtues of courage and liberty that are almost absent from corporatists. The Corporate Elite regard the rest of the population, those who are dependent on their locality for low grade employment and dependent on local networks of friends and family, as ignorant fools. Aitken recounts a BBC presenter saying: "It's the whole thing that 'we know best' and it's our responsibility to educate the poor unfortunates beneath us in how things should be."
The Corporate Elite believe that humanity will only be happy when they are controlled within corporate life and society will only be safe when it is controlled by large corporations, whether state or private. This form of corporatism is "left wing" in the sense that National Socialism is left wing. See The National Socialist Manifesto.
As always, the views of the upper class serve the upper class. The modern upper class is largely composed of those who are employed by, or run, large corporations. This is especially true since senior corporate and senior public sector pay became so much higher than average pay. In the case of the EU the arguments of the Multinational Corporations about tariff free trade and "just in time" parts supply make elegant sense to the upper classes. For the BBC editor or reporter only their enemy and the ignorant masses could possibly oppose such an obvious truth.
See The Eurozone Trojan Horse for the lowdown on Multinationals and Who are the Fascists?.
List of BBC Common Purpose Trainees - taught to be pro-EU. Unfortunately the list was acquired over 10 years ago and many more have been trained since.
If the BBC and broadcast media have left you wondering why we are leaving the EU see: Reasons for Brexit.
22/09/2019
"The morning of the EU Referendum was different. Leave had won – and this was not what the BBC had expected. Nor what it wanted.
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| John Humphrys |
Humphrys then goes on to say that there were no orders from above, the bias was largely due to editors and presenters such as himself who all supported Remain and knew from the demeanor of their bosses that they were free to campaign against Brexit, despite the fact that there had just been a Referendum and the issue was decided. It is the BBC that is deliberately polarising the country. Humphrys noted that any journalist who crossed the BBC line on an issue was "courageous".
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| Robin Aitken |
Strangely Humphrys and Aitken seem to have been unaware of the fact that the most senior levels of the BBC were indeed representing organisations that desired the UK to Remain in the EU. Rona Fairhead was appointed by David Cameron to lead the BBC through the period of the EU Referendum. Fairhead was an HSBC director of the Luxembourg subsidiary responsible for using EU rules to funnel billions of company profits out of the UK to tax havens. Fairhead even attended a secretive meeting of the European Movement's Bilderberg Group before the referendum. James Harding, the senior BBC manager responsible for news impartiality, was a keen supporter of Common Purpose, an organisation that spreads pro-EU propaganda and he approved the induction of numerous BBC staff onto Common Purpose "courses".
It was the role of senior management to stop Remain bias but they did nothing. They are responsible.
The almost complete suppression of any mention by the BBC of the group that runs nearly all the Remain campaigns, a group called the "European Movement", is probably a result of this BBC senior management involvement. (See The UK vs The European Movement). The suppression of virtually any mention of the European Movement by the broadcast media is a National Scandal. They are so powerful that journalists dare not talk of them.
There runs a thread throughout Humphrys' and Aitken's criticisms of the BBC that describes BBC staff as highly educated and hence likely to support certain viewpoints. This misses the point. Middle and Upper Class people are highly educated. The BBC represents a government funded attack on ordinary people by this class.
The EU Referendum has exposed this naked classism most clearly.
Who are these modern upper class, educated people? There is talk of the "Liberal" Elite in Aitken and Humphrys' critiques. This is nonsense. The classist members of the BBC are the "Corporate Elite". BBC employees are not leftist, they are corporate. They support Corporate life such as working for the BBC and by extension big multinational corporations and the public sector. Their idea of the enemy is the small businessperson in a white van or the independent entrepreneur. The free spirits, the people who dare their income against their wits every week and the people who risk all they have accumulated on yet another business venture. These are the true enemy of the corporatist because they demonstrate the virtues of courage and liberty that are almost absent from corporatists. The Corporate Elite regard the rest of the population, those who are dependent on their locality for low grade employment and dependent on local networks of friends and family, as ignorant fools. Aitken recounts a BBC presenter saying: "It's the whole thing that 'we know best' and it's our responsibility to educate the poor unfortunates beneath us in how things should be."
The Corporate Elite believe that humanity will only be happy when they are controlled within corporate life and society will only be safe when it is controlled by large corporations, whether state or private. This form of corporatism is "left wing" in the sense that National Socialism is left wing. See The National Socialist Manifesto.
As always, the views of the upper class serve the upper class. The modern upper class is largely composed of those who are employed by, or run, large corporations. This is especially true since senior corporate and senior public sector pay became so much higher than average pay. In the case of the EU the arguments of the Multinational Corporations about tariff free trade and "just in time" parts supply make elegant sense to the upper classes. For the BBC editor or reporter only their enemy and the ignorant masses could possibly oppose such an obvious truth.
See The Eurozone Trojan Horse for the lowdown on Multinationals and Who are the Fascists?.
List of BBC Common Purpose Trainees - taught to be pro-EU. Unfortunately the list was acquired over 10 years ago and many more have been trained since.
If the BBC and broadcast media have left you wondering why we are leaving the EU see: Reasons for Brexit.
22/09/2019
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