For all its faults, the BBC’s capacity for critical journalism should be celebrated Simon Jenkins
about 4 years in The guardian
Ministers hate the BBC for understandable reasons, but Britain is all the better for it
Good news. The system is working. Britain’s largest media organisation by far, the BBC, has ministers howling for its blood. The ancient beast is wandering through the bush, wounded by the Martin Bashir affair and trumpeting its regrets. Tory ministers are taking potshots at it with headlines, eager for preferment in Boris Johnson’s next reshuffle.
We know what happens next. The BBC sings another verse of “lessons will be learned”. Ministers come and go. Nothing much happens because the BBC is so designed for nothing much to happen. The marketplace, video-on-demand and social media may yet drive the corporation to extinction, but no government has yet dared to do so. That is how it should be. Continue reading...
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