From AFP:
Britain’s government is considering a plan to break up the BBC and remove its independent status in the wake of a bitter row with the state-funded broadcaster over the Iraq war, a report said.
Government papers detailing possible changes to the BBC’s structure proposed breaking it into separate regional entities for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Sunday Times said…
Plans being considered include giving a government media watchdog greater control over the BBC’s output, closing BBC outlets which are not considered “public service” and even forcing the corporation to share some of its licence fee revenue with other broadcasters.
Also this today from The Weekly Standard – The Wreck of the BBC :
Its Middle East coverage is notoriously one-sided. Its pro-Palestinian bias is so marked that recently the London bureau chief of the Jerusalem Post refused to take part in any more BBC news programs because he believed the corporation was actually fomenting anti-Semitism.
See a recent HonestReporting communique on double standards at the BBC here.
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