Brainwashing the Corporate Way by John Pilger http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=25388

One of the most original and provocative books of the past decade is Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Rowman & Littlefield). “A critical look at salaried professionals,” says the cover, “and the soul-battering system that shapes their lives.” Its theme is postmodern America but also applies to Britain, where the corporate state has bred a new class of Americanised manager to run the private and public sectors: the banks, the main parties, corporations, important committees, the BBC.

The reputable media play a critical often subtle role. Frederick Ogilvie, who succeeded the BBC’s founder, Lord Reith, as director general, wrote that his goal was to turn the BBC into a “fully effective instrument of war”. Ogilvie would have been delighted with his 21st-century managers. In the run-up to the Iraq invasion, the BBC’s coverage overwhelmingly echoed the government’s mendacious position, as studies by the University of Wales and Media Tenor show.

However, the great Arab uprising cannot be easily managed, or appropriated, with omissions and caveats, as an exchange on the BBC’s Today programme on 16 May made clear. With his celebrated professionalism, honed in corporate speeches, John Humphrys interviewed a Palestinian spokesman, Husam Zomlot, following Israel’s massacre of unarmed demonstrators on the 63rd anniversary of the illegal expulsion of the Palestinian people from their homes.

[SAD THING IS MINDLESS DROENS WILL READ THIS AND WHAT ILL POST BELOW,YET CONTINUE TO CITE BBC,AND LEND IT CREDIBILITY..THIS IS HOW BANKRUPT MANY SO CALLED PROGRESSIVES ARE,THEY HAVE ZERO INTEGRITY...NOW SEE....BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9307 Seven BBC Lies in a single news article, "Libya: France and Italy to send officers to aid rebels" http://axisoflogic.com/artman/publish/Article_62827.shtml BBC Bias: The Gaza Freedom Flotilla http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=afBr10f38TI BBC's Pro-Israeli Bias http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=9307 Direct Bias Shown on BBC on Flotilla Crime http://www.kawther.info/wpr/2010/05/31/direct-bias-shown-on-bbc-on-flotilla-crime -------------------------

The BBC: A Zionist Propaganda? http://www.countercurrentshtm/ While Palestinians die! The BBC Lies http://bpc-world.co.uk/2010/08/while-palestinians-die-the-bbc-lies/ Beware of the BBC http://www.redress.cc/global/slittlewood20100122 CASE STUDY OF PRO-ISRAEL BIAS:Children's BBC Website Guide To The Middle-East Conflict http://www.inminds.com/case-study-of-bias.html -------------------------

Spooks On The Job Selection Panel http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=BBC Archived internal BBC documents from the 1980s, obtained by The Sunday Telegraph under Freedom of Information legislation, have revealed that until the late 1980s the British spy service, MI5, was used to vet existing and potential staff at the public broadcaster. The paper reported that the documents revealed that "at one stage it [MI5] was responsible for vetting 6300 BBC posts - almost a third of the total workforce." ----------------------------

BBC World Service operates under the BBC's Royal Charter which is granted by Her Majesty The Queen to guarantee editorial and managerial independence from the Government.Like the rest of the BBC it is accountable to the BBC Trust, appointed under the Royal Charter to act as trustees for the public interest and oversee all BBC activities. http://www.bbc.co.uk/pressoffice/keyfacts/stories/ws_constitution.shtml