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The Boobs of the Beeb: A media monopoly that only gets worse.(British Broadcasting Corporation Ltd.)
In the days when I traveled into the remoter parts of Africa, I would often be surprised by a villager who would proceed to inform me of the latest events in the next country but three. There had been an attempted coup there, and my informant seemed inevitably to have been a party to the secret machinations of the plotters.
"How do you know all this?" I would ask.
"I heard it on the BBC."
This meant that it was true, unarguably and undeniably true: as set in stone as the Ten Commandments. The BBC was not a mere broadcasting organization (as were the Voice of America, the Deutsche Welle, or Radio Moscow), much less was it the voice of Britain: It ...
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