But if the Right Wing have so much control over the levers, why are Labour doing so well in the polls? To me, it looks increasingly gloomy for anyone wanting to see a Tory victory at the next General Election, and increasingly hopeful for the rest of us. Politically at least, the clouds seem to be lifting.Cugel wrote: ↑5 Oct 2022, 11:59amThe BBC isn't "fearful". It's been suborned by the same spivs and gangsters populating the extreme right wing "think tanks" who've suborned the Tory party.reohn2 wrote: ↑5 Oct 2022, 9:55amQuite!Bonefishblues wrote: ↑5 Oct 2022, 9:45am I didn't invite comment Mick, I was informing you. As R2 suggests, best avoid - but to do that is to miss the views an incisive commentator, very well connected, and now free of the 'BBC shackles'
Marr is as you say an incisive commentator now free of shackles of an increasingly fearful BBC.
To write off his comments due to his delivery is to throw the baby out with the bath water!
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... programmes
A quote:
"Day after day, year after year, the BBC has provided these extremists with a massive platform on its news and current affairs programmes. Major BBC programmes including Today, Question Time, Newsnight and Any Questions? are populated by speakers from the Institute of Economic Affairs, the Adam Smith Institute, the Taxpayers’ Alliance, the Centre for Policy Studies and Policy Exchange. These groups also happen to have been rated by the campaign Who Funds You? as among the most opaque of all those it investigated.
When the IEA complained to Ofcom about the broadcaster James O’Brien’s description of the institute as a “hard-right lobby group for vested interests of big business, fossil fuels, tobacco, junk food” on his LBC show, Ofcom rejected its complaint, ruling that he had not distorted the facts. Yet the combined platform of these dark-money groups on the BBC is surely many times bigger than that of any other non-party grouping".
Face it. We've all been "owned" by these New Model Aristocrats for decades, with their power now so well-established in the various cultural and governmental institutions that they now feel free to boast about it openly, after working in their dark closets for years and years to achieve what they now fully posses - unlimited and unfettered access to the levers of policy and the agencies that enforce it.
Incidentally, why do you think Bokum & pals wanted to manipulate the appointment of the Ofcom chief so that the media hoodlum and Daily Hate Main Chief Guttersnipe, Paul Dacre, got the job?
Cugel
I get a lot of my basic news from the BBC, but I think I still manage to form less than favourable opinions about how the Government are performing. If the Government are pulling strings, they aren't doing it very well.