The BBC Is Gaslighting You
The Owen Jones Podcast
Owen Jones
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🗓️ 1 November 2022
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Last week, the BBC committed a straightforward violation of journalistic objectivity, presenting Tory spending cuts as an inevitable consequence of the economic situation. I did a video about it, and huge numbers of you complained. The BBC have now responded to your complaints - and goodness grief, it is absolutely epic gaslighting and dishonesty. This matters - a public broadcaster which is supposed to be impartial and objective cannot manufacture public consent for ideological right-wing policies. And as I show here, this couldn't matter more - it's a matter of life and death.
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| 0:00.0 | Wow, just wow, it could not scream. So it's just going to compose myself. What about to |
| 0:14.8 | tell you involves one sun gaslighting and dishonesty on behalf of the BBC, which let's not forget |
| 0:21.8 | you pay for and as accountable to you, last week during rolling coverage on the day |
| 0:26.8 | that Rishi Sonak ascended to the High Office of Prime Minister, the BBC committed a straightforward |
| 0:31.7 | blatant violation of journalistic objectivity, which I highlighted in a previous video, |
| 0:36.5 | slash podcast. Now let's just hear again exactly what that reporter said. |
| 0:41.5 | In terms of stability, keeping Mr Hunt on the job, but the new government has to decide |
| 0:48.6 | extremely quickly what spending cuts it's prepared to make, what constraints on the public |
| 0:54.4 | purse it's prepared to count and what tax rises might be coming seven weeks ago. Let's |
| 1:00.5 | trust that at that very lectern, in told us all, the big tax cuts were coming. That was the |
| 1:07.4 | conservative plan to boost economic growth. What we're about to see in the next few days is the |
| 1:13.7 | exact opposite. The economic backdrop has changed. Mr Sonak is going to have to agree to |
| 1:20.0 | spending cuts and tax rises. So just for total clarity, let me repeat exactly what that journalist |
| 1:28.7 | said, not upon it, political commentator, so political correspondent even for the BBC. The |
| 1:34.8 | economic backdrop has changed. Mr Sonak is going to have to agree to spending cuts and to tax |
| 1:42.4 | rises. Mr Sonak is going to have to agree to spending cuts and to tax rises because the economic |
| 1:49.5 | backdrop has changed. Now there's only one honest legitimate interpretation of these comments |
| 1:53.8 | that because of the economic situation, the Conservative government has no option at all, but to |
| 2:00.1 | cut spending and to hike taxes. These are not presented spending cuts, tax rises as to legitimate, |
| 2:07.6 | but contested options that the government could take. Now, there is the BBC saying that because |
| 2:13.4 | of the ideological instincts of the Conservatives, given their recording government, you might expect |
| 2:18.4 | them to rely on cuts to spending and to be instinctively opposed to increasing taxes on rich |
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