The BBC has a major role, one so important that we are compelled by law to fund it, its real service is to national unity. The Corporation cannot unite us while becoming a mouthpiece for one side of a culture war. Nothing good will come of this troubling evolution in the BBC’s news values, not least if it spreads to other subjects. The punters got fed up of the Corporation lecturing them many decades ago and won’t enjoy being scolded or, worse, talked over by people whose generous salaries they fund. If the BBC ends up alienating the mainstream, it will lose popular support and sacrifice public consent for the License Fee. It is too vital an institution to be allowed to destroy itself with towering, hectoring certainty.
Media Bias Part 7
