Mr. Cumming, who normally writes about tele-vision for the Daily Telegraph, has taken the time to contribute to the Times Literary Supplement of the fifth of this month a review of the recently updated edition of Mr. Aitken's book Can we Still Trust the BBC? Among much else he writes "It is a mistake to think that an earlier BBC was totally bias-free. After all, until the end of the Cold War, MI5 vetted editorial hirings."
Well! I - and many others I know - have always felt that there was something . . . not quite right . . . about the Corporation; and now we know: perhaps an apt description is "the Encounter of the air-waves" (except that was MI6).
But what interests me even more is that the Corporation has since the end of the Cold War been becoming steadily more biassed has it not! So the question which arises is, who is vetting the editorial hirings (and pulling all sorts of strings) now?
Well! I - and many others I know - have always felt that there was something . . . not quite right . . . about the Corporation; and now we know: perhaps an apt description is "the Encounter of the air-waves" (except that was MI6).
But what interests me even more is that the Corporation has since the end of the Cold War been becoming steadily more biassed has it not! So the question which arises is, who is vetting the editorial hirings (and pulling all sorts of strings) now?