A piece in today’s Telegraph. We’re looking forward to Andrew Neil’s GB News.
Two new media outfits hope to loosen the Left-wing death-grip on British broadcasting. How will the increasingly partisan watchdog respond?
Hands up: anyone against free speech? I thought as much – all in favour. Even Ofcom, the quango which regulates our broadcasters, has come down on the side of the angels; I say “even” advisedly, because nothing in this organisation’s recent performance suggests it has a fundamental attachment to, or understanding of, the matter. On the contrary, viewed objectively, Ofcom is a crucial part of the intricate mechanism by which true freedom of speech has been hobbled in Britain.
In high-falutin’ style, one of Ofcom’s senior mediacrats – Kevin Bakhurst – last week set out his thinking about free speech in a Times article, in advance of some expected new entrants into the British broadcasting scene. GB News, the Andrew Neil-led outfit, is in a race with Rupert Murdoch’s News UK TV to be the first to launch this spring. Neil’s channel will be “Right-leaning but impartial”, while Rupert’s boys will offer something “opinionated”. Read what you will into these tentative prospectuses, but they sound like a break with the status quo, dominated as it is by broadcasters, such as the BBC, which are wedded to a liberal-Left, progressive worldview.
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