ratherbeintobago wrote: ↑31 Aug 2022, 8:46am
Bmblbzzz wrote: ↑31 Aug 2022, 8:16am
The BBC view of impartiality seems to be balancing every positive with a negative, regardless of facts or value. "The new malaria vaccine on trial in Kenya has proved highly effective, promising an end to this disease which kills over a million children every year. However, some people are saying that being infected with malaria is a highly important cultural experience."
Something has gone seriously wrong with the notion of balance at the BBC - every time it’s presenting wrong-headed minority opinion against hard fact.
"Hard fact". Hmmmmm.
As to the wrong-headed minority opinion - this is nowadays the opinion of the Tory party minority, canalised by various of their members from the fetid pools of hoary old Victorian prejudices and excuses-my-exploitative greedy-ways stink holes of well-rotted right-wing ideology supporting all sorts of nasty "business" practices.
The BBC, being essentially the main mass media armature of The Establishment, feels duty-bound to follow these government lines, even if they have become the worst kind of populist and proto-fascist nonsense. Even if it's pure barmpot raving, any crazy notion appealing to large swathes of the swivel-eyed can be used to gain or maintain power through popularity. And the "balanced" BBC must reflect the opinions of the government and other powerful agencies.
But where is the counter-charge of "hard facts"? No other political party or Establishment institution seems to possess such "right-headed" things. "Growth" and all the other failed assumptions of the Left, of Progressives, of Liberals and all the other alternatives to the dark-souled human monsters seem unable to come up with the wunnerful plan that the mythical "we" will all immediately see as the only and correct solution to the now vast range of social, economic and cultural issues engulfing an ever-increasing proportion of the population.
For many, the utterings of the various witch hunters of the gutter press are now "hard facts". All it takes is to screw up your swivel eyes a bit more and it becomes obvious that all sorts, from cyclists to dark-skinned people, as well as women with their own opinions, are dangerous to "our" way of life! If they can't now be burnt at a stake, well .... they can be persecuted with a wide range of other punishment tools available in this technological cornucopia of reality-bending mechanisms. One call to the editor of The Daily Hate Mail and .....
Cugel
“Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence are usually the slaves of some defunct economist”.
John Maynard Keynes