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| | The '''British Broadcasting Corporation''', also known as the '''BBC''', is a [[United Kingdom|British]] public service media outlet.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm</ref> Considering Britain's role in global [[capitalism]] and [[imperialism]], their public broadcast service tends to support imperial wars and demonize the anti-colonial struggles of the periphery. |
| The '''British Broadcasting Corporation''' ('''BBC''') is a [[United Kingdom|British]] state media outlet.<ref>http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm</ref> British intelligence agencies such as [[MI5]] investigate the majority of BBC staff to prevent [[Left-wing politics|leftists]] or [[Anti-imperialism|anti-imperialists]] from entering the BBC.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Alan MacLeod]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful|date=2022-10-06|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/bbc-nato-pipeline-british-state-broadcaster-serves-powerful/282156/|retrieved=2022-10-06}}</ref> Considering Britain's role in global [[capitalism]] and [[imperialism]], their public broadcast service tends to support imperial wars and demonize the anti-colonial struggles of the periphery. | |
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| The BBC tends to, according to conservative commentators, have a "[[Liberalism|liberal]]" and "center-left" bias,<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/10/bbc-review-liberal-bias</ref> much in the same way that [[Fox News Channel|Fox]] viewers would describe America's public broadcasting service, [[PBS]], even though its former head of political programming, Robbie Gibb, was a supporter of the [[Conservative and Unionist Party|Conservative Party]].<ref name=":0" /> However, when it comes to questions of imperial wars and [[anti-communism]], the "liberal media" in the Western world tends to closely align with their corresponding right-wing media outlets. | | The BBC tends to, according to conservative commentators, have a "liberal" and "center-left" bias<ref>https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/10/bbc-review-liberal-bias</ref>, much in the same way that [[Fox News Channel|Fox]] viewers would describe America's public broadcasting service, [[PBS]]. Although when it comes to questions of imperial wars and [[anti-communism]], the "liberal media" in the Western world tends to closely align with their corresponding right-wing media outlets. |
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| In 2021, [[People's Republic of China|China]] banned the BBC after the British government banned [[China Global Television Network|CGTN]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Maitreya Bhakal|newspaper=[[Mango Press]]|title=Why China Finally Banned the BBC, a Racist British Propaganda Outlet|date=2021-09-03|url=https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604203011/https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-date=2022-06-04|retrieved=2022-06-27}}</ref> | | In 2021, [[People's Republic of China|China]] banned the BBC because the British government banned [[China Global Television Network|CGTN]].<ref>{{News citation|author=Maitreya Bhakal|newspaper=[[Mango Press]]|title=Why China Finally Banned the BBC, a Racist British Propaganda Outlet|date=2021-09-03|url=https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220604203011/https://www.mango-press.com/why-china-finally-banned-the-bbc-a-racist-british-propaganda-outlet/|archive-date=2022-06-04|retrieved=2022-06-27}}</ref> |
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| == NATO connections ==
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| BBC producer Victoria Cook was funded by [[NATO]] from 2007 to 2008. Former BBC correspondents Oana Lungescu and Mark Laity and producer David McGee left the BBC to work for NATO. BBC information security specialist Terence Sach was previously a security analyst for the British military. Technical consultant Bojan Lazic worked as a psychological operations specialist for NATO during the bombing of [[Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (1992–2006)|Yugoslavia]].<ref name=":0" />
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| == Right-wing Bias ==
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| In 2023, BBC refused to broadcast an episode of a nature documentary featuring Sir David Attenborough, fearing a "right-wing backlash" over "its themes of the destruction of nature”.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Helena Horton|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=BBC will not broadcast Attenborough episode over fear of ‘rightwing backlash’|date=2023-03-11|url=https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230311120518/https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/mar/10/david-attenborough-bbc-wild-isles-episode-rightwing-backlash-fears|archive-date=2023-03-11|retrieved=2023-03-11|quote=The BBC has decided not to broadcast an episode of Sir David Attenborough’s flagship new series on British wildlife because of fears its themes of the destruction of nature would risk a backlash from Tory politicians and the rightwing press, the Guardian has been told.}}</ref>
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| == Transphobia ==
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| In October 2021, the BBC published an article titled "We're being pressured into sex by some trans women", which argues that lesbian women are being "pressured and coerced into accepting trans women as partners" and "shunned and even threatened for speaking out".<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Caroline Lowbridge|newspaper=[[BBC]]|title="The lesbians who feel pressured to have sex and relationships with trans women"|date=2021-10-26|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211026084108/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-57853385|archive-date=2021-10-26|retrieved=2023-12-02}}</ref> The article drew heavy criticism for its bad methodology and blatant [[transphobia]]. The BBC also gave a platform to [[Bev Jackson]] (a co-founder of the transphobic hate group the [[LGB Alliance]]) and [[Lily Cade]] (an actress, adult film director, and serial rapist) who, after the article's publication, called for the lynching of several high-profile trans women. Cade's contribution to the article has since been deleted, though the rest of the article is still up at the time of writing.<ref name=":1" />
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| [[Category:State media]] | | [[Category:State media]] |
| [[Category:Imperialist propaganda]] | | [[Category:Imperialist propaganda]] |
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