Yes, we are delighted.. It's only the start..The exit of BBC DG Timothy Davie, universally known as 'Tiny Tim' in its corridors, was absurdly and cranially out of his depth. I met him once: I told him SMEs were 98% of business in the UK yet the BBC never had an 'SME Correspondent'. His reply was proto-typical BBC smear: 'Is that only because YOU want to make programmes..?', somewhat idiotic as I'd retired 15 years earlier.When I worked in the BBC radio newsroom in the late 1980s I was astonished that when a major story broke the editors often said: 'No, let's wait until the newspapers cover it.. and then we'll follow up..' Cowardice et al.The bias among its 2,500 'news journalists' (mostly re-writers of agency output) is in fact widely and deeply embedded into every fabric, every inch of the Corp. For 30 years anyone who objected to immigration was instantly labelled 'racist' without any presenter rebuking the accuser. Only one view of immigration, global warming, Trump, Brexit, gender, being white, grammar schools, 'poverty', big business, class and race was tolerated. In nearly all Brexit programming Remainer guests vastly outnumbered Leavers. Bias and prejudice ruled the roost. Most absurdly nearly all presenters with middle class accents - like Jamie Oliver - pretended for decades to be 'working class' to keep their jobs. David Attenborough endlessly included references to 'global warming' - even when it was absurd - just to keep his job.Davie's career was marked by the emasculation of the few good news units, eg 'Hardtalk', and the introduction of virtually no good new ones. Years ago a noted KGB defector said the KGB spent 85% of budget and effort not on spies but on disinformation - spreading 'guilt' messages among ever-gullible college students about issues in the West that sent them wild: South Africa, nuclear energy, NATO missiles, global warming, class, solar and wind, colonialism, and most successfuly, the 'justice' of mass uncontrolled non-European immigration. Best of all, the KGB man said: not only were/are those students in power: Blair, Starmer, Trudeau, Newsom, all are psycho-blind to the truth of the absurdity of their views - even when presented with concrete, incontrovertible facts to the contrary. For them news is now a 'moral mission'. That's how and why the BBC is deeply mean, biased, bigoted - and fatally flawed - until a whole new generation of properly educated staff arrives sometime in the future - and we return to fact-based, not ideologically, corrupted methods of programme production.
Marcus Gibson ● 2h