Winston Churchill's access to the radio broadcasting state monopoly in the 1930s was blocked by John Reith, the BBC director, who was an admirer of both Hitler and Mussolini. Radio broadcasting was then the only way Churchill could reach the masses and inform Britons about the growing Nazi threat. But Reith was an appeaser, like Prime Ministers Stanley Baldwin and Neville Chamberlain.Today the stakes may be lower, but the one-sidedness endures, based on what happened to David Bellamy:
For years David Bellamy was one of the best known faces on TV.On Tuesday, Bellamy provided his account in The Australian:
A respected botanist and the author of 35 books, he had presented around 400 programmes over the years and was appreciated by audiences for his boundless enthusiasm.
Yet for more than 10 years he has been out of the limelight, shunned by bosses at the BBC where he made his name, as well as fellow scientists and environmentalists.
His crime? Bellamy says he doesn’t believe in man-made global warming.
When I first stuck my head above the parapet to say I didn't believe what we were being told about global warming, I had no idea what the consequences would be. I am a scientist and I have to follow the directions of science, but when I see that the truth is being covered up I have to voice my opinions.I'm especially pleased to highlight and applaud truth-seeking scientists who reject the supposed "consensus" but are not themselves conservatives.
According to official data, in every year since 1998, world temperatures have been getting colder, and in 2002 Arctic ice actually increased. Why, then, do we not hear about that? The sad fact is that since I said I didn't believe human beings caused global warming, I've not been allowed to make a television program.
My absence has been noticed, because wherever I go I meet people who say: "I grew up with you on the television, where are you now?"
It was in 1996 that I criticised wind farms while appearing on children's program Blue Peter, and I also had an article published in which I described global warming as poppycock. The truth is, I didn't think wind farms were an effective means of alternative energy, so I said so. Back then, at the BBC you had to toe the line, and I wasn't doing that.
At that point, I was still making loads of TV programs and I was enjoying it greatly. Then I suddenly found I was sending in ideas for TV shows and they weren't getting taken up. I've asked around about why I've been ignored, but I found that people didn't get back to me. . .
The thing that annoys me most is that there are genuine environmental problems that desperately require attention. I'm still an environmentalist, I'm still a Green and I'm still campaigning to stop the destruction of the biodiversity of the world. But money will be wasted on trying to solve this global warming "problem" that I would much rather was used for looking after the people of the world. Being ignored by the likes of the BBC does not really bother me, not when there are bigger problems at stake.
I might not be on TV any more but I still go around the world campaigning about these important issues.
(via Planet Gore)
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The bbc is supportive of the NuLabor police state of the UK - (but it is not united)
An example is bbc Question Time and its associated Any Answers which is a national disgrace with its inept Chairman "Dumblebee" being so obviously in the bbc - government pocket as to be laughable - if it were not so serious.
However like with Stalin all things cannot be totally controlled, so the government-police-state attack on our democracy carried out at the home and Westminster office of the Shadow Immigration Minister could not be hidden with the lies so obviously given, as could not the revulsion of the British populace.
As normal a lone loony-left police officer offered a counter-argument.
Fiction surpassed by aons.
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