Comments by "Ash Roskell" (@ashroskell) on "the BBC- a catalogue of cheap jibes throughout the day" video.
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It’s time we faced the fact that there has been a consistent and concerted effort to take over the media at every level by the right, over the last 10 years. Since the Tories have stopped threatening the BBC’s license fee and almost daily whining about them being a, “leftie,” organisation, I have been paying closer attention to why that might be? The public were tossed a bone, in the form of a resigning Chairman, Richard Sharp, under a cloud of Tory sleaze scandal and then, radio silence from the front and back benches? Which just so happens to coincide with a suddenly more favourable coverage of Tory policies, downplaying of scandals and burying leads.
Just look at how they covered the, “Let them die,” revelation about Sunak from the Covid Enquiry? He’s our current, serving PM! Yet the BBC’s reporting of that shockingly callous indifference was buried right at the very end of a litany of allegations against his enemy at large, Boris Johnson. A couple of sentences of coverage, tacked on to the very final seconds of the report I saw, in a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it, moment.
We’ve seen the launch of a right wing, “news,” station and Parliament unable to get any answers from the regulator about MP’s blatantly breaking the law by anchoring programs and dressing up political opinion as news. If you watched any of the enquiries into those, the regulator comes off as pusillanimous at best. We have most of the press leaning to the right, which has done for decades, but never with such impunity and insolence. And they all seem to have their, “message,” agreed before anything goes to print or broadcast.
Something is deeply rotten in the state of Denmark. And the coverage of the King is just an example of something we will likely see more and more of in the coming years: careless arrogance from the people in charge.
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