Re: I love seeing useless "journalists" get taken down like that. Archived Message
Posted by Dovetail Joint on April 13, 2023, 7:26 am, in reply to "I love seeing useless "journalists" get taken down like that."
Musk retreated from his comment that the BBC was state funded and therefore not independent. According to the BBC it is 'publically funded' and therefore... independent of the state and unbiased, precisely because it's publically funded. This is the Guardian's line too, that it's owned by an independent trust. But the 'license fee' is set by the government and the BBC has to negotiate with the government about the portion of the revenue from the license fee that it rquires. If the BBC was really 'publically funded' the money would surely go directly to the BBC. Why does it have to go to the government, the state, first? The BBC's top leadership is appointed by the government as well. That's hardly the definition of 'independent'. In reality the BBC is not independent and not unbiased towards the British state. The phrase 'plausible denialbility' springs to mind. The pretense of independence is precious to the BBC. If one were being kind, one could at the most argue that the BBC wasn't 'directly' controlled by the state and wasn't 'directly funded' by the state. But to argue that the BBC is 'publically funded' is spin, if not direct misinformation.
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