The Hollywood Reporter’sSteve Brennan offers an important overview of the BBC’s ambitious plans inside the US. The headline, including the word “assault,” gives us a sense of the ambition, and aggressiveness, of the plans of “The Beeb.”
Most Americans don’t worry much about Britain, of course, but they might pause to reflect that the BBC is government-owned and government-financed. And it’s huge, far dwarfing American PBS. And it’s also ideological, tilting in an anti-American, anti-Israel direction. And that’s despite the government of Tony Blair. So what happens when Blair is no longer PM of the UK? Well, who knows. And that’s the point. Americans should think twice about turning over their culture to a foreign-government-owned entity.
Jim Pinkerton, a Fox News contributor, actually wrote about this potentially ominous phenomenon of "State Owned Main Stream Media" here, in the pages of TCSdaily.com.
