The BBC's bullies can dish it out, but they can't take it
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1044416,00.html
Events in the US suggest that the time is ripe for a liberal media
rebellion
Joe Conason
Thursday September 18, 2003
The Guardian
To an American, there is much that sounds awfully familiar about
Beebwatch - the series launched last week by the Daily Telegraph
editor Charles Moore to root out "soft left" bias in the BBC. Moore's
determination to inflict daily humiliation on the network coincides
neatly with efforts by Rupert Murdoch and the Tory opposition to
deprive Britain's great broadcasting institution of its licence fee,
just as its charter is coming up for renewal.
At the very least, this campaign aims to intimidate the BBC's
management from broadcasting anything that might offend reactionary
sensibilities; but its ultimate goal is the crippling, or even the
abolition, of the BBC itself.
Joe Conason
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