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The Gaza Genocide Has Irreparably Destroyed The BBC’s Reputation…
And any semblance of impartiality…
In the run up to the second gulf war in 2003, the perception among members of the British public was that American news channels were rubbish.
The existence of Fox News, whose material was inimitably banal at the best of times, did justify this world view.
The Cable News Network, whose presence in the lobby of every corporate outfit, was an absolute given, also didn’t lend the impression of objectivity, at a time when the neoconservatives in the Bush administration were hellbent on invading a sovereign country to confiscate its weapons of mass destruction.
The sheer uselessness of American news outlets was in your face all the time and you couldn’t escape it, however hard you tried, attributes which were in stark contrast to the United Kingdom’s leading news channel — The BBC.
The notion that Jeremy Paxman was socking it to the government of the day, was quite pervasive and played its part in crystallizing the strident opposition to the war in Iraq.
And the fact that the popular Today program hosted by the British Broadcasting Corporation dared to describe the evidence with which America and Britain went to war ‘sexed up and dodgy’ added to its credibility.