Noam Chomsky on Public Broadcasting

[@louisjantzen7141]

This must be very early 80s. How things have changed since then. (l worked briefly at BBCs Six O'Clock News at the beginning of 1985 and it was still vibrant and challenging. They're an embarrassment nowadays)

[@MrB1923]

The BBC has no gone down a rabbit-hole of the Establishment obsession with identity politics and preaching what to think and believe. It has truly lost it's way. With journalists earning £250,000+ they will defend the system that benefits them to the last man.

[@10aDowningStreet]

I agree, I ceased paying the TV licence (and watching TV) approximately 15 years ago. Pro establishment bias is rampant on the BBC, their selling point used to be their supposed objectivity, we can get bias everywhere, it's not valuable. As @MrB1923 said, the super patronising, almost Orwellian way they have on disseminating, sometimes very wacky, identity politics, whether it's based on evidence or just the feelings of some group, is bizarre it looks to me like blatant indoctrination. These days I switch on BBC Radio 4 in the car I'm almost wondering if it's parody when hear them, for the 300th time, talking about the oppression of women, not in the Middle-East or Africa, but the UK and the USA. A once great station, totally sabotaged and turned into a crazy 3rd wave feminist mouthpiece.

[@beesplaining1882]

I live in Australia and our public broadcaster, the ABC, has changed/is changing as well. The conservative government here, under pressure by Newscorp (who own much of our media) to reign in the "liberal bias", regularly criticises it - unofficially of course! Over the last 20 years odd I have noticed a gradual drift to the right in the ABC. I put it down to the wider corporatisation of our society and the dislike of governments to have a critical broadcaster when "they are footing the bill" as one politician put it. That's not true of course.

[@cl759]

You remember the level of technology in the early 80's?

[@NyetTube]

BBC and Aussie state TV sounds like our cable news like CNN and MSNBC which are employed by people with zero integrity.

[@michaelwu7678]

In Our Time hosted by Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4 is still the greatest thing of its kind I have ever seen. Wish more public broadcasting were like that.

[@imhoisntworthmuch5441]

180k.. a while back, perhaps 6 months, i was sure you would reach 175k. congrats and thousands more.

[@leechong5335]

Tank you very much professor Noam Chomsky wee are proud in Europe for your teaching En open eyes en minds remarquable for many generations on earth, the film maker mister Kustiricka open a big salle just for you in is village, the transmission is very important en wee ave en hopefully many people's around the world à big respect for your work merci beaucoup nous sommes très fier de votre travail pour les générations d'aujourd'hui et celles de demain amitié de l'Europe pour vous dire que nous nous vous aimons et vous souhaite encore une longue vie pour voir grandir les enfants de la terre avec des livres à la main 'la fabrique du consentement "merci pour votre soutient à Julian Assange ainsi envers tous les peuples de ce monde merci beaucoup gratitude

[@johnsorrelw849]

"The main centers like Boston are subject to what is called 'liberal bias' --meaning tightly controlled by ideological managers who know their business and don't let things get out of hand."

[@Freedom_and_Democracy]

The walton family foundation started funding PBS after they aired "Is Walmart Good For America?" PBS has been quiet on the subject since then.

[@spiritualeco-syndicalisthe207]

In Germany we have councils which decide over the program. The members are appointed, not elected. They're appointed for example by the federal governments or certain organizations (which have always been pre-determined since shortly after WW2 and there's little to no changein this setup, for example there are representatives for each religion, but atheists aren't represented while at the same time, the organization of refugees after WW2 still is allowed to send delegates, because that was a thing in the 1950s when public broadcasting was established. I'm not saying they shouldn't be represented, I say they should be elected). So in practise, what we end up with is public media controlled by people who were appointed by people who were appointed by people who were elected by a population which is not fully, but to a large extent misinformed by mainstream media. A perfect circle. There are some exceptions though (like arte, french-german partner project, they make high quality documentaries and really care about showing all sides of the story), but most content is either unpolitical, which is irrelevant for this discussion, or center-left or center-right.

[@CranesNotSkyHooks]

Uploaded on the same day as the first trailer from It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood. :')

[@MrB1923]

ALWAYS quality.

[@mikkyd9989]

Hey when you upload these in the description could you please state when and where he said his comments when possible

[@rixar139]

🍀 Irish Honey Badger & Irish Bunny -> 🤔 ~ My Hero Noam Chomsky

[@Daretoknow2020]

Is there any way I can contact you via email?

[@turkson1]

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