Troops ready to take over the BBC(1956)

If yiu think that the freedom of press is restricted,go back 50 years to the Suez crisis.In an article by Andrew Marr in today's Telegraph,he recounts the story of troops outside the BBC during the invasion of the Egypt.

According to Marr:

"I knew that Eden had contemplated taking control of the BBC as he seethed about
its unpatriotic commitment to reporting the news, rather than acting as a voice
of his embattled government."

"What I hadn't heard was that troops had been quietly mustered in a building off
the Strand awaiting orders to march into Bush House and take it over. Bush House
was the headquarters of the BBC's "external services", now the World Service,
which particularly irritated the government - enough so for the Foreign Office
to tell the BBC it would slash its budget if it carried on reporting dissenting
articles in the British press. Meanwhile, along the road, BBC engineers had been
issued with sledgehammers and told by their managers to smash their equipment
rather than let it fall into the hands of the government."