BBC LEADS COUNTER-REVOLUTION

In the midst of the biggest economic crisis for decades, possibly a century (it is not finished yet - not by a long way), the BBC yet again exposes itself as the scion and bastion of the gluttonous propertied classes, instead of pursuing its supposed role of "public service broadcaster."

Every middle-class waster it can get its hands on, is paraded across our screens, mouthing their banal middle-class drivel and stuffing their putrifying middle-class values down our throats.

Every debate or discussion, initiated or broadcast by the BBC, is executed within limited parameters, those parameters being the existing political and philosophical paradigms of the ruling class.

The belief systems and values of the ruled are never given air-time in any meaningful manner which would encourage the growth and development of real working-class concerns and solutions.

All the media are guilty of these practices which is a reflection of their private ownership and profits based existence, but the BBC exists by virtue of its licence fee income, paid by every viewing citizen in the country.

As its paymasters, the public can be forgiven for thinking that the opinions of the majority of the licence fee-paying community, namely the working-class, would and should be broadcast by the BBC!

But no!

How niave and gullible can we be?

Our needs are seemingly catered for through celebrity-led travelogues, property make-overs, celebrity cooking competitions, money from attic rubbish, cringe-inducing soaps and other such trite and spite programmes.

The educative role of the BBC was once one of its strengths, but in this dumbed-down era, the role of the BBC, as far as its service to the working-class is concerned, seems to be "keep the bastards ignorant!"

The worst recent example of this genuflection to limited middle-class discussion was the "big beast" BBC 2 "Newsnight" special on the future of the NHS.

No Jeremy Paxman or Jeremy Vine to lead this "discussion."

The role of "impartial and independent" chairperson was given to Nick Robinson, the BBC's political correspondent and proud member of the Tory Party.

The four members of the panel consisted of health minister Liam O'Brien, his Tory Shadow another O'Brien, Niall Dickson of the King's Fund and some "professional" non-entity who waxed lyrical about extending "the market in health care," obviously blissfully unaware that the civilised world had been brought to the brink of disaster as a result of such neo-liberal, lame-brainer, hogwash.

The other panellists were too polite to capitalise on this glaring debating point or, more sinisterly, conspired to ignore it!

Their "solutions" were efficiency savings and increased productivity - in every day language - sackings, wage cuts and reductions in services!

As with other discussions about cuts in spending, to claw back the £1.3 trillion bail-out for the banks, policies such as taxing the super-rich, enforcing payment of corporation tax, ending tax evasion and avoidance, halting spending on ID cards, IT programmes, privatisation, illegal wars, weapons of mass destruction and the ever growing army of management consultants were never mentioned as a means to avoid horrendous cuts in the NHS.

This was par for the course and is an indication of how deep the conspiracy to further squeeze services which the majority of people depend on, instead of attacking the real culprits for the economic mess, has penetrated the ruling class and all aided and abetted by the "impartial BBC."