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gamahuche6 months ago

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I would disagree with this hyperbola.
Until the Iraq War the BBC remained a very independent entity.
They were sandbagged by Tony Blair - or rather by his hitman.
David Kelly later died.
The details of his death make it extremely unlikely that this was a suicide, though it was declared as such.
Here's a relevant comment from the Economist:

The David Kelly affair
Blair, the BBC and the war
Jul 24th 2003
From The Economist print edition

THE rapturous ovations that greeted Tony Blair's speech last week to both houses of America's Congress had barely died down before Britain's prime minister was cast low by a shocking development in the war. Not the war in Iraq, but a related and ferocious war he is waging at home against Britain's state-financed broadcaster, the BBC.

Within hours of Mr Blair's speech, one of the government's leading authorities on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction was found dead. He had killed himself. The government had earlier named this man, David Kelly, as the source for BBC reports that the government had “sexed-up” the evidence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. Specifically, the BBC had reported its source as criticising the government's claim that Iraq's WMD could be deployed at 45 minutes' notice, later emphasised by the prime minister to great effect. This had been included in the government's published dossier of intelligence at the last minute, according to the source, at the insistence of 10 Downing Street and against the wishes of the intelligence agencies. …

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  hyperbola6 months ago
  
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  Well gama, I hae been watching the BBC from time to time for about 30 years now. It has been a long time since they ever get out of the standardized "propaganda bubble". The "controversies" that they stage for people are will within the boundary of that bubble and they avoid raising real issues.
  
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