The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British state media outlet.[1] British intelligence agencies such as MI5 investigate the majority of BBC staff to prevent leftists or anti-imperialists from entering the BBC.[2] 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 BBC tends to, according to conservative commentators, have a "liberal" and "center-left" bias,[3] much in the same way that 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 Party.[2] 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.
In 2021, China banned the BBC after the British government banned CGTN.[4]
NATO connections
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 Yugoslavia.[2]
References
- ↑ http://news.bbc.co.uk/aboutbbcnews/spl/hi/history/html/default.stm
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Alan MacLeod (2022-10-06). "The BBC-to-NATO Pipeline: How the British State Broadcaster Serves the Powerful" MintPress News. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
- ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/media/2012/oct/10/bbc-review-liberal-bias
- ↑ Maitreya Bhakal (2021-09-03). "Why China Finally Banned the BBC, a Racist British Propaganda Outlet" Mango Press. Archived from the original on 2022-06-04. Retrieved 2022-06-27.