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I LOVE your site.. I am going to link you if that is o.k.??

I remember listening NPR a year or two ago, and the hosts gushing how wonderful it was that the Brits have to pay a mandatory licensing fee for the privilege of owning a TV, all of which goes to the BBC. They seemed to think it was a wonderful idea, surprise, surprise.

So, in keeping with their enlightened spirit, from now on, whenever I get any news from BBC, I am going to work from the premise that "they are shit."

Rebecca, I would be honored.

The BBC has had an institutional problem pretty much since its foundation, inasmuch as it acts as a semi-official organ ot the state and sees its role as educating the masses about the world. In the days when there were very few sources of information this didn't matter too much sicne, at the time, the people in charge took their jobs very seriously and did their best to try and educate. Unfortunate that very act was the problem; they took the view that they knew more than most people. The BBC and its ilk are paternalistic, moreso than any other organisation you could think of. They assume that their view is correct, and try to force that on to the general population under the guise of educational programming and "public service".

AS I said, in itself this isn't a problem. The problem came with the marriage of the paternalistic BBC to socialism. In the 1940s and 50s, the BBC was infiltrated, for want of a better word, by a large number of new socialists. By the 60s and 70s these men - almsot exclusively men - had worked their way up to the very heights of the BBC management, and it's around this time that the BBC became the hated thing it is today, acting as if it were a state in itself, rather than a mere service provider. And, in effect, it is a miniature communist state, complete with the ypocritical criticism of capitalism from people who earn more than the average upper-middle-class worker, and a hell of a lot more than the proles.

The new people joining in the 70s may have been more vocal in their intentions, but the BBC has always worked from the assumption that it's right, and anyone it's facing against is a "shit", though they phrase it more politely. The managers of the day were more worried about their motives being revealed by these vocal newcomers than anything else.

My understanding is that the CBC (Canada) is the same. The numerous Canadians I know seem to take everything the CBC says as whole and truthful cloth. They seem as a collective unable to think critically on their own. I realize there are Canadian thinkers and questioners, just not among those I've known, and they're in the minority it would appear. CBC obviously a major contributor to the groupthink.

p.s. I too love this site, and I've turned a number of friends and acquaintances on to it, including a couple of currently-reforming about-to-be-former lefties.