Dan Glazebrook Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/dan-glazebrook/ News You Won't Find on BBC or ITN Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:01:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://bsnews.info/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cropped-truth1-55x55.jpg Dan Glazebrook Archives - BSNEWS https://bsnews.info/tags/dan-glazebrook/ 32 32 49333625 From ‘sexed up’ in Iraq to silenced in Afghanistan, cowing of the BBC continues https://bsnews.info/from-sexed-up-in-iraq-to-silenced-in-afghanistan-cowing-of-the-bbc-continues/ https://bsnews.info/from-sexed-up-in-iraq-to-silenced-in-afghanistan-cowing-of-the-bbc-continues/#respond Mon, 09 Nov 2015 19:00:09 +0000 http://bsnews.info/?p=12900 Of course, the BBC has always been an instrument of the British state, established by statute in 1928 and run by a governor appointed by the Prime Minister. As Seumas Milne has pointed out: “There is no point in romanticizing a BBC golden age. The corporation was always an establishment institution, deeply embedded in the security state and subject to direct government control in an emergency…[with] around 40 percent of the staff… vetted by MI5.”

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