BBC

BBC (Corporate media)
Motto	Nation Shall Speak Peace Unto Nation
Formation	18 October 1922
Type	propaganda
Interest of	BBC/100 Women/2020, BBC/100 Women/2021, BBC/100 Women/2022, BBC/People, Alex Belfield, Biased BBC, Asa Briggs, Yalda Hakim, Fergus Walsh
Member of	European Broadcasting Union
Sponsored by	BBC/Verify, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Subpage	•BBC/Censorship •BBC/Chair •BBC/Deep state control •BBC/Director-General •BBC/Governor •BBC/People •BBC/Political Editor •BBC/Propaganda •BBC/Radio 4 •BBC/Scotland Editor •BBC/Terrorism reporting •BBC/Verify
A state propaganda apparatus disguised as a quasi-autonomous public service corporation.

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is the largest broadcasting organisation in the world. In its own words it is an 'autonomous public service broadcaster' operating under a Royal Charter . Within the UK, it is funded principally by an annual television licence fee, which is charged to all United Kingdom households, companies and organisations using any type of equipment to record and/or receive live television broadcasts. The level of the fee is set annually by the UK Government and agreed by Parliament. The BBC's main responsibility under its charter is to provide 'public service broadcasting' within the United Kingdom, Channel Islands and Isle of Man. Outside the United Kingdom the BBC broadcasts commercially funded channels such as BBC America, BBC Canada, and BBC World News. It also has a substantial presence on the Internet. Its global headquarters are located in London.

Origins

The BBC was the first national state broadcasting organisation. Founded on as the 'British Broadcasting Company Ltd', it was subsequently granted a Royal Charter and was made a publicly funded corporation in 1927. The stated mission of the BBC is "to inform, educate and entertain" - as laid down by Parliament in the BBC Charter; its motto is "".

The BBC is run by the BBC Trust (strapline: "Getting the best out of the BBC for licence fee payers"). Per its charter, its should be "free from both political and commercial influence and answer[able] only to its viewers and listeners".

The 1926 General Strike

The UK General Strike of 1926 provided an indication of how the BBC was to be run. John Reith, then general manager of the BBC (later director general), confided to his diary: "The Cabinet decision is really a negative one. They want to be able to say that they did not commandeer us, but they know they can trust us not to be really impartial." Reith explained it like this "since the BBC was a national institution, and since the government in this crisis was acting for the people... the BBC was for the government in the crisis too."

John Pilger contrasts the actual implementation of a policy on impartiality with the literal meaning. He states:

The BBC began in 1922, just before the corporate press began in America. Its founder was Lord John Reith, who believed that impartiality and objectivity were the essence of professionalism. In the same year the British establishment was under siege. The unions had called a general strike and the Tories were terrified that a revolution was on the way. The new BBC came to their rescue. In high secrecy, Lord Reith wrote anti-union speeches for the Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and broadcast them to the nation, while refusing to allow the labor leaders to put their side until the strike was over. So, a pattern was set. Impartiality was a principle certainly: a principle to be suspended whenever the establishment was under threat. And that principle has been upheld ever since.

Vetting by MI5

Perhaps the clearest evidence that the covert control exercised over the BBC throughout the post WW2 period to about the mid 1980's is provided by the systematic MI5 vetting of senior (and not-so-senior) BBC appointments and projects.

Continued deep state control

Bilderberg trustee and steering committee member, Marcus Agius is a Senior Independent Director of the BBC and was the first non-executive director appointed to the BBC's new Executive Board,. The clearest evidence however that the BBC remains de facto subservient to the deep state is in its handling of deep events.

WTC 7 Collapse foreknowledge - "an error - no more than that"

Full article: 9-11/WTC7 Collapse

The BBC have never released the source of the information that WTC7 would collapse, and have only issued one statement regarding their remarkable premature announcement of the collapse of WTC7. In 2007, Richard Porter, BBC Senior Editor claimed that the BBC "no longer ha[d] the original tapes of our 9/11 coverage", that "if we reported the building had collapsed before it had done so, it would have been an error - no more than that" and no further explanation would be forthcoming.

Andrew Gilligan affair

A demeaning latter-day example of BBC subservience was provided by the treatment accorded Andrew Gilligan, one of its reporters, over his broadcast claims about the 'sexing up' of the 'Iraq Dossier' used to justify the UK's participation in the invasion of Iraq and which led to the death of UN Weapons Inspector Dr David Kelly. In spite of Gilligan's claims being largely vindicated by subsequent revelations, he was forced to resign from the BBC, as was its Chairman Gavyn Davies and its Director General Greg Dyke.

BBC rejects humanitarian appeal

In the 2008/2009 attack on Gaza by Israel known as Operation Cast Lead at least 1,417 people (mostly women and children) were killed and more than 3,000 homes and hundreds of other properties, including factories, workshops, animal farms and orchards, as well as government buildings, police stations and prisons, were destroyed and more than 20,000 were damaged.

"The level of human suffering and destruction I saw today is, from any angle, heartbreaking. It is shocking that civilians suffered so disproportionately in this military operation".
UN Under-Secretary General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes, 22 January 2009

The Disasters Emergency Committee launched a public appeal to support its humanitarian relief efforts in Gaza, which the BBC refused to broadcast on grounds of "Upholding the BBC's hard won reputation for impartiality" The Archbishop of York, John Sentamu, accused the broadcaster of taking sides, "This is not a row about impartiality but rather about humanity". Communities secretary Hazel Blears said: "I sincerely hope the BBC will urgently review its decision." It did not.

Dr Rola

Full article: Dr Rola

In 2011, the BBC broadcast the highly suspicious "Dr Rola" report. This 'unverified' footage appeared calculated to provoke pro-war sentiment; purporting as it did to show the aftermath of a Syrian napalm/chemical weapon attack on a school. The report certainly contained a doctored soundtrack (the BBC have admitted as much) and may even have been a complete fake.

Summary

Whilst inquirers will undoubtedly be informed that these were all unfortunate aberrations from which lessons have been learned, there is every reason to suppose that, just like the Ronnie Corbett character in that John Cleese-Ronnie Barker-Ronnie Corbett video sketch, when it comes to deep political issues of the British Establishment, the BBC continues to "know its place".

 

An event carried out

Event	Location	Description
BBC coverage of the Calais Jungle	France	Coverage of the European migrant crisis from the BBC.

 

A Document by BBC

Title	Document type	Subject(s)
Document:BBC report on the 2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack	report	2001 Mexican legislative assembly attack

 

Quotes by BBC

Page	Quote	Date	Source
2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War	“There had already been a significant increase in violence by Israeli settlers this year, even before the Hamas attack, according to UN data, with more than 100 incidents reported each month and about 400 people driven from their land between January and August. Israeli human rights organisation B'Tselem told the BBC that since the attack, it had documented "a concerted and organised effort by settlers to use the fact that the entire international and local attention is focused on Gaza and the north of Israel to try to seize land in the West Bank". Partial data compiled by B'Tselem, covering the first six days after the Hamas attack, recorded at least 46 separate incidents in which it said settlers threatened, physically attacked or damaged the property of Palestinians in the West Bank. "A lot of shepherding families and communities have fled because they were threatened in the past week by settlers," said Roy Yellin, a spokesman for B'Tselem. "Settlers have been giving residents a deadline to leave and telling them if they don't they will be harmed. And some villages have been totally emptied out."”	2023	BBC
China	“The US believes a suspected Chinese surveillance balloon that was shot down over its territory is part of a wider fleet that has spanned five continents. "The United States was not the only target of this broader programme," Secretary of State Antony Blinken said. He added that the US had shared information gathered from the balloon debris with dozens of other countries. China has denied the balloon was being used for spying purposes, and says it was a weather device blown astray. US officials have described the balloon as being about 200 ft (60m) tall, with the payload portion comparable in size to regional airliners and weighing hundreds - or potentially thousands - of pounds. Its presence in US airspace set off a diplomatic crisis and prompted Secretary Blinken to immediately call off a trip to China - the first such high level US-China meeting there in years. It was later shot down by a US fighter jet off the eastern coast. Citing unnamed officials, the Washington Post reported that the US believes the suspected surveillance balloon project was being operated from China's coastal Hainan province and targeted countries including Japan, India, Vietnam, Taiwan and the Philippines.”	2023
European Parliament	“A fourth Euro MP caught up in a "cash-for-laws" scandal has denied wrongdoing as the European Parliament investigates corruption allegations. Spanish MEP Pablo Zalba said he had been "deceived" by the Sunday Times undercover reporters and had not accepted their offer of cash. But he said he did amend draft legislation at the request of the reporters posing as lobbyists. Two other MEPs have resigned in the affair and a third has left his party. Mr Zalba, of Spain's centre-right Popular Party (PP), said he was the victim of a "trap", in which the pretend lobbyists had requested two amendments to draft legislation on consumer protection. He said he rejected the first amendment but agreed to put forward the second because he thought it would help protect small investors, Spain's El Pais news website reported. According to the UK's Sunday Times newspaper, the undercover team made it clear to Mr Zalba that he would be paid for his services”	2010

 

Related Quotations

Page	Quote	Author	Date
Australian Broadcasting Corporation	“The Australian Broadcasting Corporation shamed the BBC by putting out a Four Corners documentary on the Panama leak that had real balls. In stark contrast to the BBC, the Australians named and shamed Australia’s biggest company and Australia’s biggest foreign investor. BBC Panorama by contrast found a guy who sold one house in Islington. The Australians also, unlike the BBC who deliberately and knowing hid it, pointed out that the corruption centred on the British Virgin Islands, and even went there. All in all an excellent job.”		April 2016
John Laughland	“People experience a strong psychological reluctance to accept that political events today are deliberately manipulated. This reluctance is itself a product of the ideology of the information age, which flatters people’s vanity and encourages them to believe that they have access to huge amounts of information. In fact, the apparent multifarious nature of modern media information hides an extreme paucity of original sources, rather as a street of restaurants on a Greek waterfront can hide the reality of a single kitchen at the back. News reports of major events very often come from a single source, usually a wire agency, and even authoritative news outlets like the BBC simply recycle information which they have received from these agencies, presenting it as their own.”	John Laughland	2010
Craig Murray	“We have a programme, the Integrity Initiative, whose entire purpose is to pump out covert disinformation against Russia, through social media and news stories secretly paid for by the British government. And we have the Skripals’ MI6 handler, the BBC, Porton Down, the FCO, the MOD and the US Embassy, working together in a group under the auspices of the Integrity Initiative. The Skripal Case happened to occur shortly after a massive increase in the Integrity Initiative’s budget and activity, which itself was a small part of a British Government decision to ramp up a major information war against Russia. I find that very interesting indeed.”	Craig Murray	21 December 2018
Robert Stuart	“Let me pin my colours to the mast and say that I am absolutely convinced that the BBC did deliberately and knowingly fake evidence of chemical attacks.”	Craig Murray Robert Stuart
Mark Urban	“Mark Urban’s piece for Newsnight tonight was simply disgusting; it did not even pretend to be more than a propaganda piece on behalf of the security services, who had told Urban (as he said) that Yulia Skripal's phone “could have been” tapped by the Russians and they “might even” have listened to her conversations through the microphone in her telephone. That was the “new evidence” that the Russians were behind everything. As a former British Ambassador I can tell you with certainty that indeed the Russians might have tapped Yulia, but GCHQ most definitely would have. It is, after all, their job, and billions of our taxes go into it. If tapping of phones is seriously presented as evidence of intent to murder, the British government must be very murderous indeed.”	Craig Murray Mark Urban	5 July 2018

 

Employees on Wikispooks

Employee	Job	Appointed	End	Description
Matthew Bannister	Radio Host	1983		Selected a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in 1999
Matthew Bannister	Manager	1983	1993
Helen Boaden	BBC News Group/Director
Jeremy Bowen	International Editor	August 2022
Gordon Corera	Security Correspondent	2004		"Frequently in contact" with the Integrity Initiative
Lyse Doucet	Journalist and presenter	1983
Hannah Fry	Host of Contagion! The BBC Four Pandemic	2018	2018	Inadvertently exposed the the preplanning of Covid.
Stephen Fry	Television presenter	2001
Lewis Goodall	Producer	September 2012	December 2016
Lewis Goodall	Political Editor BBC Newsnight	January 2020
Nik Gowing	Broadcaster	1996
Michael Grade	Controller of BBC1	1984	1986
Tony Hall	Director of News & Current Affairs	1993	2001
Gavin Hewitt	News Editor	October 2014
Jane Hill	News presenter	1991
Mishal Husain	News presenter	2011		Made propaganda documentations on Arab Spring, Malala Yousafzai and Brexit
Mishal Husain	Washington correspondent	September 2002	2003	In the build-up to the invasion of Iraq
Ivone Kirkpatrick	Controller of the European services of the BBC	October 1941	September 1944
James Landale	Deputy Political Editor	2009	2016
James Landale	Diplomatic Correspondent	2016		Part of II's Tackling Tools of Malign Influence
Clarence Mitchell	Correspondent and Presenter	January 1986	June 2005
Ian Pannell	Middle East Correspondent	2005	2008
Ian Pannell	South Asia Correspondent	2008	2011	"Based primarily in Afghanistan, reporting on the battle against the Taliban and the struggle for democratic change."
Ian Pannell	Foreign Correspondent	2011	2014
Ian Pannell	International Correspondent	2014	June 2017	"Reporting on major news stories around the world with particular focus on the Middle East, in particular Syria."
Ian Pannell	Washington correspondent	2002	2005	"Ian worked primarily for BBC Breakfast News and morning radio, reporting on the Bush administration and US affairs in the post 911 world and the launch of the "war on terror"."
Jeremy Paxman	Journalist	1972	1989
Jeremy Paxman	Presenter of Newsnight	1989	18 June 2014
Richard Sambrook	Journalist producer and editor	1980	2010
Richard Sambrook	Director of BBC News	2001	2004
David Scholey	BBC/Governor	1996	1999
Richard Sharp	BBC/Chair	February 2021	27 June 2023
Marianna Spring	Disinformation and Social Media Correspondent	March 2020
Elan Closs Stephens	BBC/Chair	27 June 2023		Acting
Deborah Turness	CEO of News and Current Affairs	31 January 2022
Fran Unsworth	Director of News & Current Affairs	January 2018	31 January 2022
Charles Wheeler	Washington correspondent	1965	1973	Attended the 1962, 1966 and 1967 Bilderberg conferences
Nawal al-Maghafi	Producer	March 2013	December 2013
Nawal al-Maghafi	Correspondent	June 2017

 

Sponsors

Event	Description
BBC/Verify	A BBC "fact checking service"
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation	Very influential and rich foundation established to take leadership of global health.

 

Related Documents

Title	Type	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:Appleby launches legal action against ICIJ’s UK partners	Article	18 December 2017	Gerard Ryle	"This is a potentially dangerous moment for free expression in Britain" – Gerard Ryle
Document:BBC Panorama Investigation Into Labour Antisemitism Omitted Key Evidence and Parts of Labour’s Response	Article	22 July 2020	Justin Schlosberg	The fact that the Labour Party is now settling libel cases brought by both John Ware and the Labour 'whistleblowers' is remarkable, not least because there is meant to be an ongoing internal inquiry into the leaked internal report, whose findings have now effectively been prejudged. But I’ve been told this will cost the party close to half a million in damages and costs.
Document:BBC's biased and inaccurate reporting of anti-semitism allegations towards Jeremy Corbyn	Letter	7 August 2018	Pamela Blakelock	"We regret that the BBC has failed to comply with its own codes with regard to impartiality and accuracy. Given the gravity of allegations of anti-semitism, the role performed by the BBC is all the more critical if it is to live up to Reithian principles of informing the public."
Document:Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years	Article	10 January 2022	Rachel Schraer Robert Cuffe	Why did so many people die in 2022? This remarkable BBC News article doesn't explain why.
Document:HSBC and the sham of Guardian’s Scott Trust	Article	3 March 2015	Jonathan Cook	Britain, we are told, is privileged to have two “liberal” media outlets, the BBC and Guardian, that are seen either as neutral or as a leftwing counterbalance to the rightwing agenda of the rest of the media. Here are three illuminating articles and a short video that should help to dispel any such illusions.
Document:Has the media ignored good news about Jeremy Corbyn	Blog post	11 December 2017	Patrick Worrall	No-platforming Jeremy Corbyn: Tories and Unionists have a visceral hate of Seán MacBride
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?	Article	18 October 2021	Marianna Spring	The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.
Document:Index on Disgrace	Article	22 April 2018	Craig Murray	"We thus have the extraordinary spectacle of a coordinated government and media onslaught on anybody who doubts their entirely fact free narratives. Public trust in the state and corporate media hits new lows, which is the happy part of this story."
Document:Is The BBC Anti-Labour?	Report	December 2019	Paddy French	Paddy French's antidote to John Ware's Panorama programme "Is Labour Anti-Semitic?"
Document:MI5 and the Christmas Tree Files	book extract	1988	Mark Hollingsworth Richard Norton-Taylor
Document:No Ceasefire in the Propaganda War	blog post	24 November 2023	Craig Murray	Since October 8 over 200 Palestinian children have been taken prisoner, none of whom had anything to do with the October 7 attacks. That rather puts the possible release of 33 children and six women today into perspective. But it is not a perspective the BBC would ever give you.
Document:Objectives, Tasks and Cluster activities and Relationships	Wikispooks Page		Euan Grant	Euan Grant lists an extensive list of willing collaborators. Intelligence people, non-fiction authors and lots and lots of media.
Document:The BBC is weaponising its Lebanon reporting to help disguise Israel's crimes	Article	27 September 2024	Jonathan Cook	By the third week of September, Israel had killed more than 750 Lebanese, compared to 33 Israeli deaths. The differential is even starker now. And yet the western media has not framed Hezbollah’s attacks as its "right to defend itself" – a right we are continuously reminded Israel has.
Document:The BBC’s vaccine cheerleader Jeremy Vine gets his comeuppance	Article	15 August 2021	Kathy Gyngell	The BBC and their COVID-19/Vaccine propaganda is getting pushback.
Document:The Demonization of Jeremy Corbyn	Article	10 December 2019	Tony McKenna	Notwithstanding, Corbyn was transfigured by a rabid establishment into successive manifestations of the purest evil: he was a terrorist sympathiser; a threat to national security; a communist spy; a misogynist; and, a dyed-in-the-wool anti-Semite.
Document:The Paradise Papers and HSBC. Who	Article	14 November 2017	Nicholas Wilson	The corruption surrounding Theresa May's seduction of Saudi Aramco to hold its stock market launch (IPO) at the London Stock Exchange next year has involved bribes, lobbying for HSBC and changing the rules by the FCA
Document:What is the point of tourists' checks and tests if migrants can just walk into Dover?	article	5 June 2021	Peter Hitchens	A blog post outlining the illogical policy of lockdown measures in the pandemic era, followed by sections about political correctness, and the Douma attack whistleblowers and Wikileaks.
File:BBC ECU Response about Dr Rola.pdf	letter	19 May 2014	Colin Tregear	The reponse from the BBC to the complaints about the veracity of the Dr Rola footage by Robert Stuart.
File:BBC on the Israel-Palestine conflict.pdf	paper	22 February 2013	Peter Allen	Peter Allen's University of Leicester MA dissertation, analysing the bias of the BBC Newsnight program in its reporting of the Israel/Palesine conflict. Although confined to the Newsnight series, it is a telling commentary on the subliminal official narrative nature of BBC News output and that of the Western Corporate media in general.
File:How the BBC betrayed the NHS.pdf	report	27 September 2012	Oliver Huitson

 

Documents sourced from BBC

Title	Type	Subject(s)	Publication date	Author(s)	Description
Document:An Open Letter On Defence	open letter	UK/Ministry of Defence UK/Army		Michael Boyce Michael Clarke Chris Donnelly Richard Barrons David Richards Jeremy Blackham Robert Fulton Hew Strachan Edward Argles Paul Cornish Peter Dunning James Glancy Michael Graydon Antony Hichens Clifford Kamara Andrew Lambert Frank Ledwidge Tony Mason Gwythian Prins Michael Rose Cayle Royce Julian Thompson	An open letter the BBC published from a group of academics and military men written to the UK Prime Minister highlighting "global threats", warning that "security is threatened in almost every corner of the globe" and that decreased military expenditure would "damage our international credibility". Authors included at least three members of the Institute for Statecraft.
Document:Excess deaths in 2022 among worst in 50 years	Article	BBC NHS 2022 NHS England COVID-19 "COVID-19/Vaccine" COVID-19/Premature death	10 January 2022	Rachel Schraer Robert Cuffe	Why did so many people die in 2022? This remarkable BBC News article doesn't explain why.
Document:I get abuse and threats online - why can't it be stopped?	Article	BBC Demos "Conspiracy theory" "Disinformation" Internet/Censorship Troll Center for Countering Digital Hate Algorithm manipulation Big Tech "Anti-vaxxer" Plymouth shooting	18 October 2021	Marianna Spring	The Disinformation Specialist at the BBC gets criticism online for her "fact checking". Internet censorship is the answer.
Document:MPs given guide to spotting conspiracy theories	Article	Institute for Strategic Dialogue "Conspiracy theory" "Disinformation" Chemtrails Ukraine New world order 5G Penny Mordaunt QAnon "COVID-19/Vaccine" Vaccine/Censorship AstraZeneca The Great Reset Climate lockdown Andrew Bridgen 15-minute city Great Replacement Tell MAMA Antisemitism Policy Trust	10 May 2024	Marianna Spring Jennifer McKiernan	Penny Mordaunt has commissioned a booklet for MPs on conspiracy theories.
Document:New Goldsmith Statement	article	Downing Street memo	25 May 2006	Mahdi Darius Nazemroaya
Document:The Russians are here	article	Our Kind of Traitor John le Carré	8 September 2010	Andy Walker	From an interview broadcast on BBC Radio 4 about John Le Carré 's latest book of "Our Kind of Traitor". Le Carré (aka David Cornwell) also airs his views about the nature of the SIS's 20 years after the end of the cold war.
Document:What could go wrong for Keir Starmer? A lot actually, Laura Kuenssberg writes	Article	Labour Party Keir Starmer 2023-2024 Israel-Hamas War/October 7 Natalie Elphicke	11 May 2024	Laura Kuenssberg	Following the May 2024 local elections Keir Starmer looks highly likely to be the next Prime Minister, but his future it is in doubt.
Document:Why some people are spreading false rumours about the Texas gunman	Article	"Disinformation" Bellingcat Mass shooting "Extremism" Psyop Nazism "Fact checking" "Misinformation" Tim Pool "Far right"	9 May 2023	Shayan Sardarizadeh Mike Wendling	The BBC factchecks the recent 2023 Allen, Texas outlet mall shooting regarding the alleged Nazism of the Hispanic shooter
Document:Wilmshurst Resignation Letter	letter	Iraq War 2003 Downing Street memo	18 March 2002	Elizabeth Wilmshurst	Letter of resignation from her position as a UK Foreign Office legal adviser over the issue of the legality of military action against Iraq in the absence of a specific UNSC resolution authorising it

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External sites

• Spin Profiles BBC page , A detailed and healthily CCM-sceptic view of the BBC
• Beyond the Fringe article - 24 January 2010, on the BBC refusal to Broadcast the Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for Gaza