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snot

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12. I posted years ago about the change in control of the BBC --

Mon Jun 23, 2014, 11:04 PM

Jun 2014

but aroused no significant interest in this development.

After Tony Blair got mad at the BBC for going after the deception involved in bringing the UK and the US into Iraq, they changed the rules so that Trustees to the BBC Board would be selected by the Prime Minister, and to make it easier to outsource BBC reporting/programming (i.e., to cronies).

Previously, it was ONLY on the BBC that I'd heard that there WAS an alternative explanation for the infamous "aluminum tubes." Now that programming has been replaced by talk about sports and celebrities.

Have you noticed, the countries in which little or no mass media reach most of the population, seem to be the ones in which the people are rising up against unjust governments?

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50,000 protest austerity outside BBC; BBC ignores [View all] ellenrr Jun 2014 OP

Recd. Must've borrowed a page from American MSM. nt raccoon Jun 2014 #1

BBC = ReRe Jun 2014 #2

I posted years ago about the change in control of the BBC -- snot Jun 2014 #12

Yeah... ReRe Jun 2014 #13

Canada's CBC is going that way too. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #14

Yes, I remember that. And we still don't know what really happened behind the scenes. Just that one sabrina 1 Jan 2015 #17

It took our media, which was covering three person Tea Party "events" about two weeks to acknowledge merrily Jun 2014 #3

I loved this one...reminds me of home. Stellar Jun 2014 #4

+1 daleanime Jun 2014 #6

That is exactly what has happened... truebrit71 Jun 2014 #10

Hear, hear! k&r n/t Laelth Jun 2014 #5

Next week, half that number of right wingers will show up NewJeffCT Jun 2014 #7

They already did, with round the clock UKIP coverage nxylas Jun 2014 #8

I think people around the globe need to be in the streets LuvNewcastle Jun 2014 #9

People around the world ARE in the streets. ellenrr Jun 2014 #15

There was a very large demo in Spain the same day also. Joe Shlabotnik Jun 2014 #11

Hmm. Time to move the protest *inside* the building(?) Matariki Jan 2015 #16