On 16 May the BBC "will host a day of special live coverage examining how the movement of people is changing the world we live in and how our economies develop."
It will be an "all-day Today programme" and dominate that day's output on both Radio 4 and the BBC World Service.
The BBC says "the discussion will impartially cover how migration is changing our world" and promises "a range of speakers from different sides of the arguments" to "set out the most important new ideas".
But, looking at the press release, I've got my doubts.
After all, the star attraction of Word On The Move day will be Angelina Jolie Pitt - a celebrity "activist on behalf of refugees" (in the words of the Guardian).
And the press release says the day will be "bookended" by two live Radio 4 programmes - one (Today) looking at "how reverse migration has seen Asian people return to their countries of origin to promote economic growth, such as in India and Vietnam" (which sounds very much like a positive, pro-migration angle), the other (The World Tonight) "looking at how multinational workforces are serving the creativity of the tech sector" in California (which also sounds very much like a positive, pro-migration angle).
This sounds ominous.
Yep all part of the "resistance is useless" Vote Remain campaign on the BBC.... So sounds like they won't be covering New Year's Eve Cologne, the organised abuse of Kaffir women and girls across the UK, pro-Sharia terrorist networks, out of control population growth in the UK, the growth of migrant-
ReplyDeletebased anti-semitism, or the negative impacts of mass immigration on our economy. Also sounds to me like this is deliberately set up to try and catch out a UKIP or spokesperson to say something that can be presented as "controversial", "anti-migrant" and "racist" in the run up to the Referendum campaign in order to make a Leave vote sound socially unacceptable. This might sound a bit paranoid - but we only have to think back to the Brexit disaster movie pretend docudrama the BBC made last year (which even they were embarrassed by it was so obviously and insanely biased) to realise such fears are not far-fetched. I feel there is a definite drumbeat of pro-Remain propaganda on the BBC: all about context, what questions are asked, and who is allowed to answer them.
"The BBC says "the discussion will impartially cover... in unique ways only the BBC can". It's in their DNA. Apparently.
ReplyDeleteWill they cover the large contribution of mass migration and globilisation to climate change? I'm talking about air miles (when 'going home to see the family' involves plane travel), destruction of our countryside to house everyone, and exposure of native wildlife to foreign diseases.
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