A Tangled Web

Uncle Hutton and Auntie Beeb



Britain's broadcasting answer to the Politburo has decided to act in the aftermath of the Hutton Report. Former BBC Director of News, Ron Neil, has decided a 'sea change' is necessary to enhance the competence of BBC journalists.



Actually, what is being proposed (colleges of journalism and the like) amounts to nothing other than 'window dressing': action for action's sake. The underlying, fundamental Left-wing ethos of the organisation will not alter, and the public will be left with a state broadcasting leviathan which is anti-American, subliminally anti-Israel and, definitely, anti-Conservative in its political perspectives. Why should I, as someone who holds antithetical viewpoints on all of the above, be forced to pay out a monthly charge to a corporation projecting contrary standpoints to my own? I suggest if Mr Neil is sincere about transforming the atmosphere of BBC journalism, he takes a long, hard look at its base philosophies.