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Honestly, if they were actually a government mouthpiece it'd probably improve the quality of the BBC's Covid reporting at this point. They seem to be pushing th
by makomk 5y ago
Honestly, if they were actually a government mouthpiece it'd probably improve the quality of the BBC's Covid reporting at this point. They seem to be pushing this idea that everything the government is doing is wrong and incompetent, and they don't think it violates their standards in any way to publish claims that they know are false and then quietly pull them a month later with no correction after they've had the desired effect in order to achieve this.
- pydry 5y ago>They seem to be pushing this idea that everything the government is doing is wrong and incompetent Hard to cover this truth up completely. Did you think the UK got 128,000 COVID deaths by doing everything right? They're giving a platform to Dominic Cummings (I assume you're referring to this?). For better or worse his claims would come out sooner or later. It's more controllable if it comes out via the BBC. Propaganda management is not all about pushing good stories and hiding bad ones it's also about damage control on negative stories and ideally owning the ones you won't ever be able to suppress. By owning the story they were better poised to claim that Cummings was just a liar who was bitter about being kicked out, for instance.