World Service must be fully state-funded to counter disinformation, say BBC bosses
Ministers must cover full costs of championing western values abroad, senior BBC figures to argue
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/58151089
The same people who've been telling us how we can't trust media from China because it's state owned are now telling us that state owned media is the only way to fight disinformation. 🙃
How 1984 of them, eh?
It is the old, "They are total lies when they do it, but totally not lies when we do it," narrative at play.
and it's just so transparent
Look, somebody has to tell the unwashed masses that Israel is our perfect baby who can do nothing wrong.
counter disinformation
championing Western values
Pick one.
Counter disinformation things I don't like and champion Western values capitalism.
From the people who brought you such hits as The Uighur Genocide, Iraq has WMDs and The Russian Invasion Was Unprovoked!
Russian and Chinese state media are spending an “eyewatering” £8bn a year, compared with the World Service’s £400m budget.
I mean, yeah, that's kind of concerning. The reality is, whoever invests the most in propaganda is going to win.
No organization was spending more on foreign influence and media reportage than USAid. So of course the UK wants to fill the void. They're the voice of Anglo Saxony! They don't speak for this anglo-saxon (by heritage). /s
They're including the entirety of China's media budget.
While I agree things like npr, pbs, and local newspapers are propaganda, you guys typically don't. So it's silly to compare the two like that.
It's like saying the entirety of the UK's tv license fee is just for state run propaganda; and that's not fair, channel 4 exists and works against UK state propaganda.
