BBC
= Blair's Broadcasting Corporation
By Rory Winter
23 April, 2007
Chimes
Of Freedom
In
the Blue-Pill Matrix world, the BBC is a news service which disseminates
an impartial view of daily events. In the real world, it is nothing
more than a shameless and servile tool of the British capitalist state
and, in recent months, a mouthpiece for Tony Blair's neocon, very-British
form of fascism.
This message has to be repeated
over and over until the public out there are disabused of the lies perpetuated
by the BBC that it is a benign teller of truths. If it tells the truth
then it is very much a western capitalist, Blue-Pill version meant to
accomodate the views of Britain's ruling elites. It is very much a minority
truth, totally out-of-step with the vast majority of Brits who do not
support its warmongering propaganda.
Far from being the benign,
somewhat avuncular, cricket-loving animal it is so often portrayed as,
the BBC is a very nasty, well-organised, international mouthpiece for
genocide and the repression of true democracy. In other words, it remains
true-to-form, a remnant of Britain's imperial past; a remnant which
was taken over sixty years ago to serve the old imperialists' successor,
the United States.
Hence the BBC line is more
or less Washington, DC's line. A line which will change according to
whoever might be occupying the White House at any given time. And when
it comes to British affairs, you can be sure that there is a hotline
between 10 Downing Street and the BBC Newsdesk. You and I are simply
at the receiving end of this news-by-diktat.
Today, the BBC's vitriol
is reserved for Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian revolution. The
BBC is giving extensive coverage to a protest that took place in Caracas
over the Venezuelan government's refusal to renew the broadcasting licence
of right-wing Radio Caracas TV (RCTV).
RCTV played a significant
anti-Chávist role during the failed 2002 coup when it deliberately
broadcast misinformation about what was going on.
During the April 2002 coup
attempt RCTV was one of the main protagonists in the organization and
execution of the coup. It was the first to broadcast the false claim
that Chavez supporters were shooting at opposition demonstrators, which
then served as a justification for high level generals to declare their
disobedience to the government, also on RCTV.
RCTV then had exclusive interviews
with coup plotters and the talk show host Napoleon Bravo read Chavez’s
supposed resignation letter on RCTV. Later it turned out that the letter
was never signed by Chavez and that he had actually not resigned at
all, but had been taken into custody.
When the coup began to falter
and thousands of demonstrators took to the streets in support of Chavez,
RCTV refused to provide any news coverage of the developments and switched
from 24-hour news coverage to the broadcasting of old cartoons and movies
instead.
(Venezuelanalysis.com, 3
January 2007)
Of course, the BBC report
doesn't mention any of the above. In its news release on the Net it
presents the demonstration as a popular uprising of "thousands"
countered only by a pro-Chávist demonstration of "hundreds."
Well, anyone who has been on an anti-government march in Britain will
know how good the BBC is at misreporting numbers so I, for one, will
reserve my judgement on the BBC's 'hundreds' v. 'thousands' in Caracas.
The report was then carried
on BBC News 24 which is satellite broadcast all over the planet. That
report conspicuously omitted any mention of a counter-demo and concentrated,
instead, on what appeared through the magic of the editor's cutting-room
to look like the beginnings of an anti-Chávist uprising. All
in the BBC's dreams.
Now, imagine the failed coup
had taken place not in Caracas but --as in my own dreams-- in London.
Not against Chávez but Blair and not with RCTV but the BBC. How
would Tinpot Tony feel about renewing the BBC's licence?
In fact, the comparison is
not far wide of the mark. The BBC, under Greg Dyke's directorship, did
challenge Blair about his serial WMD lies which legitimised the invasion
of Iraq. For having dared to do so, Dyke 'resigned' (he had no choice)
and was replaced with one of Blair's toadies, Michael Grade. Ever since
that time the BBC has been reduced to playing the part of the neocons'
whoring mouthpiece.
All that took place in the
Red-Pill world which the BBC is prohibited from reporting. Unlike the
BBC's reactionary bosses who would find themselves out of work in an
anti-capitalist revolution, Greg Dyke commented significantly on his
'resignation' that, being financially independent, he hadn't taken the
director's job for the money. You can be sure that no British government
will ever make a mistake like that again!
Meantime, spare a thought
for all the poor souls who continue to languish in the BBC's dark satanic
mills, their consciences compromised by a state not very different to
the Soviet Union against which it used to rail so self-righteously during
an earlier Cold War.
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