The rot at the BBC is worse than people think. It’s far more serious than the occasional twisting of facts to get one over on a politician the Beeb hates, like Donald Trump – an act of journalistic malpractice for which director-general Tim Davie and News CEO Deborah Turness have now resigned.
This scandal exposes a great truth of our time – that the elites are often more susceptible to fallacy and hysteria than the rest of us
The deeper problem is that the BBC has been so corrupted by faddish ideology that it is now content to burn truth itself in the service of that ideology. It has supped so heartily on the Kool-Aid of correct-think that it is even willing to promote such delirious untruths as ‘male breastmilk’ in order to stay sweet with its fellow ideologues. This is the true crisis: the BBC has forsaken its old noble goal of informing the masses in preference for flattering the delusional beliefs of the elites.
It is no surprise that the Beeb’s shortcomings pertain to three issues in particular: Trump, trans and Gaza. For this is the holy trinity of moral obsessions in chattering-class circles. Hating Trump, believing men can become women, insisting in the absence of anything resembling evidence that Israel is a ‘genocidal entity’. Fail to bow to these neo-religious diktats and it’s curtains for you in polite society.
The Beeb has thoroughly imbibed all three commandments. Its doctoring of that footage of Trump confirms it feels greater loyalty to Trump Derangement Syndrome than to truth. Its ceaseless promotion of the trans ideology – and its sidelining of critical women’s voices – confirmed it will even set fire to science to please its fellow congregants in the church of high-status opinion. And its frothing obsession with Gaza, often to the exclusion of every other tragedy on earth, confirms it bows deeply to the bourgeois cult of Israelophobia.
We have witnessed something extraordinary – the subversion of the BBC by a cruel new creed that cares little for truth and even less for fairness. That’s what is so infuriating about today’s cries that the BBC is being ‘taken down’ by a toxic cabal of right-wing loons. The reason we’re in the mess is because the Beeb has already been taken down, or taken over, by leftish loons who think men can make milk and war is genocide.
The question is not: ‘Why is the Daily Telegraph going after the BBC?’. It’s: ‘Why did it take the Daily Telegraph to make the BBC see there is a problem?’. Many people have pleaded with the BBC to wake up. Every day the good women of ‘TERF Island’ call out the Beeb for its abandonment of scientific truth and its brutish hushing of women’s voices. Jews, too, have protested at BBC HQ and begged it to be fairer on the Israel-Hamas war.
All were ignored. The BBC treated the public it is meant to serve as irritants, people who’ve simply failed to get with the programme of ‘trans joy’ and Israel-hate. If it had listened to them, maybe it wouldn’t be sinking so fast.
This scandal exposes a great truth of our time – that the elites are often more susceptible to fallacy and hysteria than the rest of us are. Those who live in a bubble of self-reinforcing right-think are more easily swayed by dangerous fads and false gods than those of us who live in the real world. In ensconcing themselves in their ivory towers of self-flattering dogma, they cut themselves off from other ways of thinking, and from truth itself.
The thing BBC bigwigs said about us – that we are vulnerable to misinformation – turned out to be far truer of them. If the Beeb really wants to be saved, it will open up its citadel of ideology to the wisdom of the very Brits it sneers at.
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