The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a government-owned public
communication system. Its stated main responsibility is to provide impartial
public service broadcasting.
It has recently been criticized,
presumably by leftist global warming alarmists, of allowing too much air time
to those in opposition of the British government’s position on global warming.
The BBC has responded by a program
to reduce air time by dissenters. The justification is said to be a matter of
fairness based upon numbers. It is said that since there are so many more
proponents of climate control than dissenters of global warming, the majority
of their time should be with the proponents.
The BBC can take this high-handed
approach in the UK , because
it has no constitution allowing freedom of the press, such as we have in the US . The danger,
of course, is that the majority proponents of man-made global warming could be
wrong, and the BBC would be helping to influence the general British public of
traveling down an incorrect road. The BBC action can also be interpreted as
another form of censorship.
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