Disabled Protest at BBC in London: On Monday 2nd September 2013 I went with disablement protesters, some in wheelchairs, who had been protesting at Broadcasting Home in London on the BBC’s failure to report honestly the results of presidency cuts, significantly on the disabled. They blocked the principle BBC entrance for an hour, with some locking themselves to the doorways.
The BBC finally referred to as the police, who arrived not lengthy earlier than the protest was to finish, and after they advised the police this, the police stood again and watched till they did pack up and depart. In fact the protest was solely a minor inconvenience to the BBC as there are different entrances which individuals had been ready to make use of.
At one level a BBC TV cameraman turned up who had been requested to movie the protesters. I joked with them that maybe he would have the ability to promote his footage to ITV information because it was very unlikely that it will be proven by the BBC. And I used to be right in that there was no point out of the protest in any respect on BBC information programmes. Maybe a couple of years later the footage may seem in some function about disabled folks.
The protesters took turns in talking out in regards to the failure of the BBC to report the true hardship attributable to ATOS assessments and the withdrawal of advantages, profit cuts and caps and the bed room tax. All had been fed up with the BBC repeating the lies and half-truths of presidency and requested why the true issues and quite a few deaths from the austerity programme and the protests over these weren’t being correctly reported.
The scenario was essential for a lot of poor and disabled folks, with over 500,000 having to resort to meals banks arrange by church buildings and charities to fend off hunger. The protesters chanted ‘BBC, Inform the Reality’ and requested somebody from the BBC to come back and talk about the difficulty with them – however nobody would.
They made clear they weren’t asking for particular remedy for the disabled, however for full, correct and neutral reporting – one thing the BBC as soon as had a popularity for, however sadly no extra.
They had been joined by probability by activist comic Mark Thomas who had been contained in the BBC after they arrived. Some had just lately met him throughout his ‘Mass Miracle’ efficiency outs Atos’s Edinburgh workplace which had been part of the earlier months Edinburgh fringe. He was persuaded to talk briefly and gave his assist to the protest, praising the protesters for coming to make their views recognized to the BBC.
I’ve blended emotions in regards to the BBC which nonetheless does produce some advantageous programmes but additionally I believe has failed in some ways. Though they’re supposedly unbiased they’re very a lot an institution mouthpiece they usually very a lot work from the viewpoint of the wealthier components of our class-ridden society.
Journalist Emily Maitlis has just lately spoken out in regards to the ‘Tory cronyism on the coronary heart of the BBC’ and their misguided method to impartiality which led, for instance, to local weather deniers being given equal prominence to the massive physique of scientific proof over the acute risks of local weather change.
Maitlis is clearly an achieved journalist and presenter with a protracted and profitable profession. However she was in a really nicely paid put up on the BBC, is married to an funding supervisor and lives and works in a really completely different world to the nice majority of the British folks. A minimum of she was one in all comparatively few in such positions who was educated at a state faculty (although actually not a bog-standard one) earlier than going to Cambridge.
However for years it has been clear that we cannot depend on the BBC for a complete view of occasions within the UK and around the globe. If you wish to be well-informed about what is going on and why you must look and take heed to different sources – together with the BBC’s personal World Service, and different UK and international information companies (which frequently have a really completely different bias), in addition to different UK media akin to Double Down Information, Novara Media and The Canary.
However the BBC has more and more come below threats from governments who management its purse-strings – if at a slight distance. I don’t pay a licence charge as a result of I don’t view TV however do take heed to BBC radio for an hour or two most days, although often with half and ear whereas doing different issues. The BBC continues to be a lot better in some ways than the business options and in a special league to these in another nations – such because the USA.
Extra footage at DPAC at BBC – Inform The Reality.
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