When Is a Mistake Not?

The answer is when the Bloated Biased Corporation, more commonly known as the BBC, says so. This once reputable news organisation has fallen so far from grace it will be lucky to pick itself up again. If it were a privately owned and operated business, not a taxpayer-funded gravy train, it would have had to call in the receivers a long time ago. Like numerous broadcast organisations around the world, particularly state-run ones, objective journalism was ditched decades ago. You’d have to be blind and deaf not to notice.

The irony is that the BBC has FINALLY been brought down by Donald Trump, probably the one person on earth it hates the most. The organisation lives in the taxpayer-funded left-wing media bubble and is so insular that it is unable to see where it is going wrong, which does nothing to increase the level of public trust so desperately needed. I don’t think that matters to the BBC; it’s just another of its ‘mistakes’.

They are bereft of scruples like most leftist media outlets and the exact same charge could be levelled at all of them. They all edited Trump’s speech to suit their narrative. The same accusations apply to their coverage of topics like the Middle East and climate change.

Latest figures show at least one in eight British households are not paying their licence fee and 3.6 million households have cancelled their licence entirely. That represents a loss in annual revenue of around £550 million. Yet an article published in another bastion of left-wing journalism, the Guardian, doesn’t seem to think they are to blame: they put it down to the rise in popularity of other news platforms, e.g., YouTube. Has the BBC board ever asked themselves why? Not likely. I can tell them. People are fleeing to right-wing media and podcasters that they know are giving them honest journalism and accurately publicise the policies and the popularity of the likes of Donald Trump and Nigel Farage.

Nobody, other than dyed-in-the-wool lefties, buys into the BBC’s explanation that their editing was a mistake. It was a deliberate and calculated move. You only have to look at the head of news, who, along with the director general, has fallen on her sword, to see they suffer from Trump Derangement Syndrome. And there lies the problem.

They have let their personal views take precedence over objective journalism. Their aim is to get people to believe what they believe, but not only have they achieved the exact opposite, with audiences deserting them in droves, but they have completely disregarded the most basic rules of their profession: honesty, integrity and the truth. The BBC needs new leadership, a change of direction and a change of culture if it is to survive in a meaningful form.

If Starmer, the most incompetent prime minister in British history, agrees with the organisation’s position then you know its situation is untenable. The outfit is bloated and needs to be slimmed down, along with its taxpayer funding and the salaries of its top presenters.

This model is all too prevalent amongst left-wing media, including 1-News and Three News. The ABC in Australia edited the Trump interview in exactly the same way the BBC did and is refusing to admit it’s done anything wrong. Another problem is they source all their news from each other, which means the bias is unavoidable.

The BBC’s apology to Trump was one you would expect from the organisation: a pathetic attempt to try and extricate itself from the hole it had dug. The reply illustrated that it has no clue as to how he operates. To think he was going to accept their bunch of weasel words, including compensation being off the table, was naïve.

The result of this huge miscalculation is the BBC will probably face being sued for an amount somewhere in the range of £3.75 billion and it would be well advised to seek an out-of-court settlement. Judging from the comments I’ve read on many articles, there is a general consensus and hope that Trump will bankrupt the organisation.

In my next article I will compare viewership between left and right media which will show that those on the right are benefitting from the demise of the left.