If you can't trust the BBC

Thanks to San Serif for this other BBC story.

Yet another ex BBC journalist Robert Aitken leaves the corporation and writes an book about his experiences.

"I think the BBC, by and large, lines up behind what I would term the progressive consensus on whatever issue one happens to be talking about," "So for instance, during the era of the Soviet Union and the Cold War, the BBC was too willing to find excuses for Soviet misdeeds and excesses; was too sympathetic for the notion of unilateral nuclear disarmament; was too hostile and suspicious of the motives of the US."

He highlights a number of areas

1.An internal corrosive culture-he comments on the poster that was hanging in the BBC comparing George W Bush to Hitler

"Bush=Hitler poster and the mindset that finds it acceptable to hang in newsroom that prides itself on objectivity is the mark of "a powerfully corrosive internal culture in the BBC, which acts upon individuals"

2.That post 9/11 the corporation's coverage of the Middle East has been rather one sided,its view in particular of the Iraq war is held

I think it took a clear editorial view, from the very first, that the Iraq War was mad, bad, and dangerous," and thus filtered that opinion to its millions of listeners, all the while, feigning objectivity.