by Giulio Meotti
The BBC live streamed the entire speech of Iranian Ayatollah Khamenei (armed with a rifle). This took up 40 minutes of air time and the TV inserted his quotes in its banner: “October 7 was logical and legal” and “The missile attack on Israel is legal and legitimate”.
It is hard to imagine the BBC live streaming a speech by Hitler in 1942 and reporting the quotes in the banner at the bottom of the screen.
And while Liliane Landor, the former director of news for the BBC, defended Hezbollah, the public TV invited Islamists to talk about immigration and Palestinian Arab doctors who incite to “kill the Jews”.
In 2004 the BBC was renamed the “Baghdad Broadcasting Corporation” because its news programs seemed to have been written by Saddam Hussein. Today, in 2024, it should be called “Tehran Broadcasting Corporation”.
The English ironically call it “Auntie”. The very size of the BBC and the vastness of its reach, a huge public monopoly, an almost Soviet-style bureaucratic apparatus, accountable to no one, means that “BBC truth” is instantly believed.
A few days ago the BBC agreed to broadcast a documentary about the massacre of 364 young Israelis at the Nova Festival by Hamas, but on the condition that the terrorists were not called “terrorists”.
Former BBC presenter Don Maclean says the TV “supports Islam and attacks Christianity”.
It started in 2005, after the London bombings, when the BBC decided to call the four suicide bombers “perpetrators of the attack”. Then, in 2007, the fear of offending Muslims living in Great Britain pushed Channel 4 of the broadcaster to change the plot of a television series, Casualty, deleting the suicide attack of an Islamic terrorist from the script, under pressure from the internal committee of the TV that oversees its content.
Another significant episode is the interview with the Danish cartoonist Kurt Westergaard, made and then deleted for fear of triggering an Islamist reaction. The famous cartoonist, who lived with an escort like a head of state, compared this decision to that of the British appeasement of Hitler.
The BBC has also decided that jokes, even irreverent ones, can continue to be made about the Vatican and the Jews, but not about Islam. This was established by Mark Thompson, director of the British public service. The reason? Muslims “are more sensitive” than Christians (Jews do not even deserve an explanation, however lame) and therefore it is better not to irritate them.
George Orwell worked at the BBC producing radio programs during the Second World War. The writer left in 1943 because, as he explained in his resignation letter, at the BBC he was “wasting his time and public money on work that doesn’t produce results”. But his experience at the BBC had become a source of inspiration for him: he named “Room 101” in 1984 after a TV meeting room of the same name. The new 1984 Ministry of Truth’ is a newsroom.
Fear of criticizing Islam has made the West incapable of defending itself, while Khamenei has launched a “cognitive war” against and within the West. And Western television and other media have become their useful idiots.
The BBC renamed: The Tehran Broadcasting Station | Israel National News – Arutz Sheva