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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?
Join us for MediaWatch’s first event at Labour party conference in Brighton this Monday.
Our panel will see Chi Onwurah MP, a member of Jeremy Corbyn’s new culture and media team, and Jane Perry, president of the media trade union Bectu, discuss how the Left should respond to attacks on the BBC.
The event will be a unique opportunity to help shape Labour and Left policy on the BBC and the media.
You can submit questions for the panel by commenting below or emailing adam@leftfootforward.org.
Speakers:
- 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
For more information email: adam@leftfootforward.org
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6 Responses to “Event: Murdoch’s attacks on the BBC: How should the Left respond?”
stevep
Don`t care for Russell Brand and I don`t even know who Owen Jones is, so consider myself educated!
A 60,000 strong petition against BBC refusal to call Cameron Right-Wing, when Corbyn is repeatedly labelled left-wing blows your theory out of the water.
There`s ample people on the left who think the BBC has always been pro-establishment, ie. Right-Wing. Nothing I`ve seen in the last five decades changes that.
Right Wingers assume that debate about anything that doesn`t promote the doctrine of greed, selfishness and plutocracy is left-wing. That the programming of anything left of “Downton Abbey” or “To the Manor Born” is somehow proof that the red flag flies just around the corner.
To be fair to the BBC, it is an organisation internationally respected for it`s relatively unbiased news coverage. A good many people in war-torn and occupied countries have relied on it for their source of information, in preference to their own media and often at great personal risk.
Despite our perceptions of it, If the BBC goes we will be reduced to other media organisations offering cheaply-made, poor quality, lowest common denominator programming designed to fill the gaps between advertising. If you`ve witnessed TV in the USA, you will know what I mean!
There will be no diverse radio programming. What other media organisations will run specialist shows with talk, drama, debate, classical music, reggae, 50`s, rock, metal,sport, world service, in fact programming to suit all of us, not just the advertisers.
Do you really want that, just to score political points?
Neither do I.
Long live the BBC!