The talking heads in the media and in the "corridors of power" must take us all for fools! As if the broadcasting media - whether the BBC or any other - can possibly be "neutral"!

    To show its "impartiality" over the Israeli government's systematic destruction of Gaza and deliberate massacre of civilians, the BBC in fact went one better - and so did Channel 4 and ITV. Every time the massacre in Gaza perpetrated by the government's friend, Netanyahu, was reported, they invited Israeli defence spokespersons, publicity agents for Israel's government and best of all, the hysterical former Israeli ambassador to London, Tzipi Hotovely to comment... "for balance".

    And their "comment" was always to claim that this was a "justifiable war" against the terrorist organisation Hamas, while denying that it was a merciless slaughter to eradicate and ethnically cleanse as many of Gaza''s Palestinians as possible, which it evidently was (and still is).

    Strangely enough, the other side of the conflict, that is Hamas, which led the deadly 7 October terrorist attack, but had also headed an elected civilian government in charge of running the Strip since 2006, was never invited.

    So, balance? Or does balance and impartiality not come into it, when the policy of the government of the day is to support the Israeli state, in tow of the USA, come what may?

Their not-so-hidden agenda

Ironically, Michael Prescott - the ex-journo now PR company owner who is responsible for this row over BBC "bias", had accused it of pro-Palestinian bias!

    Apparently he doesn't accept the findings of the "independent" Centre for Media Monitoring, which found that the BBC had given Israeli deaths 33 times more coverage per fatality than Palestinian deaths.

    Then again, Prescott is a close associate of the pro-lsraeli-Zionist Robin Gibb who helped launch GB News. And while Prescott (also a business advisor to Starmer!) denies any rightward bias himself, his "expose" was published in that well-known "unbiased" and 100% neutral newspaper, the Daily Torygraph!

    BBC director general Tim Davie and news CEO Deborah Turness may both have resigned, but only because they've also been disgraced by none other than that paragon of truthfulness, the US President Donald Trump! Who promptly threatened the BBC with a $1bn lawsuit for defamation!

    This may all seem a little too good to be true for all those opposed to public broadcasting and ad-free TV of course! Because if the BBC "house" falls down, then there'll be no more choice; it will be commercial viewing and listening only... in other words, the profit system will have conquered the whole of the media's territory. So in that sense it's not really in workers' interests for public broadcasting to disappear!

Tilting the balance

But give us a break! Clearly, the BBC (and the rest of the mainstream media too!) are guilty of bias. They cannot avoid reflecting the fundamental class division - that is, class bias - in this society.

    And whether nominally private or public, dependent or independent, the message is the same. Whether it's a licence fee collected by the government which pays the broadcaster, or whether it's a private consortium, as the saying goes: "he who pays the piper calls the tune"...

    And the tune gets pretty jarring at times. As mouth-pieces for the ruling political establishment in Westminster, the state institutions and beyond, the official media's main objective is to help maintain the status quo. In other words, the dominance of the wealthy over the rest of us.

    If in any doubt, try to recall when last you saw the BBC championing workers' strike action, cheering them on, or praising a militant shop steward. Even resident doctors, the backbone of the NHS, are cast as greedy villains. The best the BBC can manage is nostalgic documentaries about working class defeats, like the 1984-5 miners' strike...

    Just watch today, how the incredibly timid Employment Rights Bill is discussed in the media. This Bill offers workers even less than the accepted norm in other rich countries, in terms of the right to a proper contract, to sick pay, to unfair dismissal rights etc... but the objections of the bosses, the Tories and Farage are constantly aired. Little or nothing is broadcast "in balance"...

    So no, "neutral" doesn't exist... And to pretend that this is the case, is really one of the biggest fakes of all!

    And yes, as workers, we intend to show our own totally impartial bias against the exploiting class, their institutions and their media, until we have successfully "unbalanced" and overturned them!