BBC: British Bullshit Communications
Philadelphia, PA – September 28, 2007
British broadcasting companies have recently found themselves fighting for their own credibility amidst a rash of disclosures and outings exposing intentional viewer deceit. The state-owned British Broadcasting Corporation admitted earlier this week that it had rigged an online voting promotion to name a new character on its popular television show Blue Peter. The second violation for the Blue Peter show alone has found the BBC scrambling to regain credibility amongst viewers and advertisers alike. In July, the network was fined $100,000 (£50,000 for all you Anglophiles, barf) by communications regulators for presenting a fake sweepstakes winner on air. In another BBC incident from this summer, producers of a documentary about the Queen of England herself were called-out for editing a particular sequence out of order, belying Queen Elizabeth’s actual disposition.
People of Britain, duh. It’s quite puzzling to us at the ICBR that there seems to be some sort of surprise on the part of the British proletariat that your state-owned-and-operated-since-1927 broadcasting network is a total spin zone. Of course the BBC is going to manipulate its viewers; it’s a bloody (again for Anglophile comprehension) institution of propaganda. Here in America, we have a variety of privately owned broadcast networks and one government-funded, public broadcasting network that, get this, serves as one of our more independently minded and liberal communications outlets. F tyranny!
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