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18 Mar 2007 07:28 am
The BBC
Gerard Baker pens a highly enjoyable rant:
You really do have to leave the country to appreciate fully how pernicious the BBC’s grasp of the nation’s cultural and political soul has become. The groupthink and assumptions implicit in almost everything broadcast by BBC News, and even less explicitly by much else of the corporation’s output, lie like a suffocating blanket over the national consciousness.
This is the mindset that sees the effortless superiority, at every turn, of benign collectivism over selfish individualism, exploited worker over unscrupulous capitalist, enlightened European over brutish American, thoughtful atheist over dumb believer, persecuted Arab over callous Israeli; and that believes the West is the perpetrator of just about every ill that has ever befallen the world — from colonialism to global warming.
Whenever I go home, I'm struck by the same stuff. But Britain endures, its people immune to these things for the most part. My dad does anyway. For him, the BBC is mainly sports and some good drama. There are more Brits like him than you might think.
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