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Murdoch’s attacks on the BBC: How should the Left respond?
MediaWatch
Monday, 28 September
15:30-16:30
Grand Hotel, Victoria Terrace (secure zone), Labour party conference, Brighton
This Tory government’s cheerleaders in the press have declared ‘war on the BBC’.
As the Beeb-bashing continues and the axe swings ahead of charter renewal in 2016, what progressive case should be made to defend public broadcasting?
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- Chi Onwurah MP, shadow minister for culture, media and sport
- Jane Perry, president of Bectu, the UK’s media and entertainment trade union
- Chair: Adam Barnett, MediaWatch writer for Left Foot Forward
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6 Responses to “Event: Murdoch’s attacks on the BBC: How should the Left respond?”
Patrick Nelson
The BBC is no longer balanced and it did a hatchet job on Ed Miliband, stuff them, let them defend themselves.
stevep
The BBC needs to defend itself against government and media attacks on it.
It probably still has the best investigative reporting team in the business and should use them to dig deep into the various media empires and the roles they play in the UK.
It could run Panorama specials at peak time on various media baron`s mucky empires, mucky propaganda and the use of it to support far-right governmental policy.
The BBC has got nothing to lose, the various far-right forces arrayed against it want it shut down anyway.
It should come out fighting, using every part of it`s still-considerable resources to attack the opposition.
When the BEEB has gone, say goodbye to quality programmes worth watching, Standards will fall off the edge of a cliff. Say goodbye to excellent and diverse radio programming and most importantly, say goodbye to the most important relatively impartial media broadcaster in the world.
IvyMike
“It could run Panorama specials at peak time on various media baron`s mucky empires, mucky propaganda and the use of it to support far-right governmental policy.”
So an ‘impartial’ BBC isn’t what you had in mind? And you wonder why people want to get rid of this leftist propaganda outfit?
stevep
The BBC has built a worldwide reputation for relative impartiality. However it is under attack from far-right forces and their supporters, who don`t want impartiality. It has a right to defend itself from such attacks and respond in kind by investigating the motivation behind it all and reporting on it`s findings.
If you think the BBC is a “leftist propaganda outfit”, then you either don`t watch or listen to it much, read the SunMail too much or are just trolling on behalf of the poverty-deniers.
IvyMike
The BBC is NOT impartial and has admitted it. The real reason that people like you want it to remain is because you see it as a leftie counter balance to the ‘right wing’ Murdoch press. It supports multiculturalism, ‘diversity’, immigration and the EU.
http://biasedbbc.org/quotes-of-shame/
You clearly worship at the feet of Owen Jones and Russell Brand. Open your mind and educate yourself.
Do a Google search of the BBC website and you’ll see that something ‘right wing’ is many times more likely to be called ‘extreme’ than something ‘left wing’. For example, the term “extreme right wing’ occurs 994 times, compared with 315 times for “extreme left wing”.
Google: “extreme right wing” site:bbc.co.uk