THE ENEMY WITHIN (BRITAIN) (3/3)
by Michael Walsh
‘You cannot hope to bribe or twist, thank God a British journalist - But seeing what the man will do, unbribed, there's no occasion to.’ - Humbert Wolfe
‘Newspapers have to sell in order to live, so does commercial T.V. That leaves the British Broadcasting Corporation as the only truly public service medium in this country disseminating information, entertainment, and, in the case of race relations propaganda. We are unashamed to admit it is what we are doing.’ - Gerry Hines, BBC, Programme Organiser, in Race Today / ‘We are all Marxists now.’ - Sir. Charles Curran, BBC, 10 October 1970.
BRITAIN'S MOSCOW TYPE MEDIA ‘I have heard MPs and senior political aficionados complain that if they were to say on BBC what they really think, they would never be invited again, and not to be invited again could make a quick end to an aspiring politician's prospects.’ - Roy Bramwell, Inter-City Research Centre. Blatant Bias Corporation
THE TELEVISION TALIBAN ‘Television lies. All television lies. It lies persistently, instinctively and by habit. Everyone involved lies. A culture of mendacity surrounds the medium and those who work there live it, breathe it and prosper by it. I know of no area of public life - no, not even politics - more saturated by a professional cynicism. If you want a word that takes you to the core of it, I would offer 'rigged'. ......... is it dishonest for the presenter to imply that the pundit in the chair is free to offer any opinion, when the truth is that 50 pundits were telephoned but only the fellow prepared to offer the requisite opinion was invited?’ - Matthew Pariss. British Press Awards Columnist of the Year. Daily Mail, April 21 1996.
‘When it came to discussing the war in Iraq staff found it so difficult to find any member of the public prepared to speak in favour that they ended up planting people in the (Question Time) audience.’ – Autobiography: BBC Director-General, Greg Dyke. Mail on Sunday. October 24 2004.
‘If you have nothing to fill it (television) with, then turn to blacks and the coloureds... you can always find a sufficient number of blacks who are only too glad to get on television.’ - Reverend Wilfred Wood, Chairman, BBC Religious Advisory Committee
‘You tend to find that television does accumulate around it left-of-centre people.... and the whole direction of television is left-of-centre.’ - Anthony Smith, BBC Twenty For Hours, 1970/1971.
Leslie Littlewood, President of the Association of Broadcasting Staffs addressing the TUC Conference, December, 1970 said that his 13,000 programme and technical staff were 'a damned sight more to the left than most of the delegates in the hall.’
‘When Michael Wharton, then a BBC producer and later satirical writer for the Daily Telegraph ( Peter Simple) saw some members of a BBC TV camera crew sobbing he asked them why they were crying. They replied ‘Joe Stalin has died’. Wharton replied ‘it's a pity he was every born!’ The reds never spoke to him again.
ENGINES FOR PROPAGANDA
‘The papers conducted by Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are not newspapers in the ordinary acceptance of the term. They are engines of propaganda, for the constantly changing policies, desires, personal wishes, personal likes and dislikes of two men... it is power without responsibility’ - Stanley Baldwin, British Prime Minister 1924-1929 and 1935-1937.
‘Political correctness is just another way of filtering the truth.’ - Sir Peter Hall, Theatre Director.
‘This is, in theory still a free country, but our politically correct, censorious times are such that many of us tremble to give vent to perfectly acceptable views for fear of condemnation. Freedom of speech is thereby imperilled, big questions go undebated, and great lies become accepted, unequivocally as great truths.’ - Simon Heffer, Daily Mail, June 7 2000.
THE FINAL WORD
Here's freedom to him who would speak
Here's freedom to him who would write,
For there's none ever feared that the truth should be heard,
Except he who the truth would indict.
- Robert Burns
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