BBC accused of ‘client journalism’ as it tries to make Rishi Sunak acceptable to the public
SuperTory: this previous BBC attempt to make Rishi Sunak acceptable had just one thing right – the “£” sign on his chest, signifying that he exists for one thing alone: money.
Let’s get this straight: Tory chancellor Rishi Sunak is an out-of-touch money-grubber whose wife is richer than the Queen.
He has nothing in common with you.
But the BBC keeps trying to turn him into something acceptable – as if there was any such thing as a “cuddly Tory”.
Its latest attempt at a free party political broadcast for the Tories was broadcast today – Budget day – and received the roasting it deserved:
Obsequious, fawning idolatry of a party responsible for the worst covid response on the planet and 10 years of austerity, of war on the poor.
Damn the BBC to hell. https://t.co/kIoazRZwI2
— Damien Willey 🟢 🔴 (@KernowDamo) March 3, 2021
Steve Topple’s piece in The Canary* hit exactly the right notes:
BBC News‘s video was little more than a cuddly look at a man who, however you dress him up, is a Tory. He’s one who’s left some sick and disabled people in dire straits. Sunak is a man who’s ignored the plight of the so-called three million “excluded” people. Yet BBC News even went as far as to push the idea Sunak could one day be PM.
“Client journalism” is where the government uses reporters for its own agenda. Peter Oborne wrote about this for openDemocracy. He noted an example where both BBC and ITV political editors Laura Kuenssberg and Robert Peston quoted an unnamed government source in 2019. Here the news they put out was, as Oborne said, “fake” with no basis in fact. But the two corporate journalists pushed it anyway.
This latest BBC video, with its upbeat music, rapid-fire delivery, and glossy production reeks of client journalism. What the public needs on Budget day is critical and unbiased analysis of Sunak and his policies. It doesn’t need yet more pro-government propaganda from the BBC posing as something informative.
Damn straight. Now try complaining to the BBC about it. You’ll get a load of hogwash about “balanced reporting”.
But this is nothing like that.
It’s unbalanced reporting – verging on insane.
Source: Here’s the BBC’s most insidious bit of Rishi Sunak propaganda yet | The Canary
And there’s another excellent take on this issue here: BBC, is this your idea of journalism? | The Critique Archives
*If you’re about to hit the ‘comment’ button to come out with a claim that “The Canary is unacceptable because…” then step away from the keyboard because you have been brainwashed.
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Rishi Sunak is a multi millionaire in his own right because he was a hedge fund consultant and a banker. His wealth is estimated to be over £10million! Sunak and his wife jointly have a property portfolio spanning the UK and America that is worth about £10m. Their London home is a five-bedroom mews house in Kensington worth £7m. They also own a £1.5m Georgian mansion set in 12 acres in Sunak’s North Yorkshire constituency, among other properties.
Sunak obviously knows about poverty because he is a self-made multi-millionaire! It also explains why he doesn’t care about impoverished women and men!
Tories for the people – what a joke – fascist tories have only one aim – to increase their exorbitant wealth and continue stealing from our public purse! Sunak is as crooked as little fascist dictator dick johnson!