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Post-Hutton, the BBC's news reporting seems to be biased toward US and world capitalist interests in far more blatant a way than before. Maybe I'm being over sensitive, but I'm seeing a real shift in emphasis.
I mentioned a lack of questioning of Republican spin in a Today report on the US presidential campaign a few posts ago; today's impetus to post comes from the BBC1 10 o'clock news, and a piece on the forthcoming Venezuelan referendum.
I read a report in the Guardian earlier today. Granted, that report is clearly partial too, but putting it next to the BBC report, it's hard to believe they're about the same country. There was no mention whatsoever of any possibility of ouside interference in Venezuelan politics by the BBC, or questioning of the motives of those campaigning against the current administration. It was clearly a case of the reasonable and acceptable civilised portion of the population facing those nasty, ignorant, poor peasants who have been OMGWTF!!! bought off by FREE FOOD from the government.
I'm afraid that when the interests of the US government and your choice of multinational corporations with a turnover exceeding that of all of South America coincides with a "peoples' campaign" against a government, the name that immediately comes to my mind is Salvador Allende...
I mentioned a lack of questioning of Republican spin in a Today report on the US presidential campaign a few posts ago; today's impetus to post comes from the BBC1 10 o'clock news, and a piece on the forthcoming Venezuelan referendum.
I read a report in the Guardian earlier today. Granted, that report is clearly partial too, but putting it next to the BBC report, it's hard to believe they're about the same country. There was no mention whatsoever of any possibility of ouside interference in Venezuelan politics by the BBC, or questioning of the motives of those campaigning against the current administration. It was clearly a case of the reasonable and acceptable civilised portion of the population facing those nasty, ignorant, poor peasants who have been OMGWTF!!! bought off by FREE FOOD from the government.
I'm afraid that when the interests of the US government and your choice of multinational corporations with a turnover exceeding that of all of South America coincides with a "peoples' campaign" against a government, the name that immediately comes to my mind is Salvador Allende...