Over many years, the BBC’s treatment of climate change issues has been marked by bias, ignorance, credulity and – in the latest episode – unwarranted concealment.
“Lord Lawson (Conservative), Lord Donoughue (Labour) and Baroness Nicholson (Liberal Democrat), three Trustees of the all-Party and non-Party Global Warming Policy Foundation, have called upon the BBC’s new Director-General Designate to convene a new high-level seminar in order to re-assess the BBC’s treatment of global warming and climate policy issues.” [Bishop Hill]
Also check out, The Propaganda Bureau, by Andrew Montford.
The Golden Rule applies: “Whoever has the gold makes the rules.” As a consequence, whenever a communication medium starts accepting money from a government, it cannot avoid degenerating into a simple propaganda tool for the regime. The Pre-Celtic tradition is as old as bards – at least 3000 years. A bard was a professional poet, employed by a patron, such as a monarch or nobleman, to commemorate the patron’s ancestors and to praise the patron’s own activities.