"The BBC is---probably---the finest news organisation in the world."
Posted by Morrissey on January 27, 2024, 11:37 pm
Sunday 28 January 2024
I've just heard on the 12 noon news (Radio NZ) that it's Holocaust Remembrance Day. A man from the BBC tells us that in Poland, twenty Holocaust survivors gathered to "remember." One of them, a 94 year old woman, says that "she is reminded of those days every time she hears people shouting Death to the Jews on protests against Israel."
Remarkable journalism from the BBC, as compelling as their stories about "thirty beheaded babies" and "terrorists under the hospitals."
"I would also like to thank the BBC just for being the BBC: more than ever, it is a privilege to work for a news organisation which is sincerely and wholly committed to trying to understand and explain the world in an unbiased way." (page 5) "The BBC is---probably---the finest news organisation in the world." (page 456)
---Robert Peston and Laurence Knight How Do We Fix This Mess? The Economic Price of Having It All and the Route to Lasting Prosperity (Hodder & Stoughton, 2012)
Re: "The BBC is---probably---the finest news organisation in the world."
Desert Island Discs today had a "political" cartoonist and illustrator called Riddell, who I'm not familiar with. I think he does stuff for the Independent. Lauren Laverne asked him how he gets his ideas for topical cartoons and what fires him up. He said listening to the radio (I think he said Radio 4) makes him want to shout back at the radio, in anger or annoyance, and then quickly qualified it by saying, "I mean the news items of course, the BBC coverage is excellent (or first class or brilliant or something)"
Obviously well suited to doing biting political satire for the Independent.
Decent cartoonists get fired, usually. That's what happened to