Greg Dyke, director weBBC, akarwisa terevhizheni yekuAmerica yeIraq. "Kuti chero sangano renhau riite secheerleader yehurumende kukanganisa kuvimbika kwako," akadaro. "Vanofanira kunge vari ... vachienzanisa chivharo chavo, kwete kuridza ngoma kune rimwe divi kana rimwe." Akataura kuti tsvagiridzo yakaratidza kuti, panyanzvi dze840 dzakabvunzurudzwa pazvirongwa zvenhau dzeAmerica panguva yekurwisa Iraq, ina chete yaipikisa hondo. "Dai chaive chokwadi muBritain, BBC ingadai yakakundikana kuita basa rayo."
Dyke akataura zvese izvi nechiso chakatwasuka here? Ngatitarisei izvo tsvagiridzo inoratidza nezve BBC yekushuma Iraq. Media Tenor, iyo isiri-partisan, Bonn-based media research organisation, yakaongorora nhoroondo yehondo yeIraq yevamwe nhepfenyuro dzinotungamira pasirese, kusanganisira maUS network neBBC. Yakanangidzira ngwariro pakufukidzwa kwokushorwa kwehondo.
Mhosva yechipiri-yakaipisisa yekuramba kuwana manzwi ekurwisa hondo yaive ABC muUnited States, izvo zvakavatendera chikamu che7 muzana chekuvhara kwayo. Nyaya yakaipisisa yaive BBC, iyo yakapa 2 muzana chete yekuvhara kwayo kune vanopikisa maonero - maonero aimiririra iwo eruzhinji rwevanhu veBritish. Chidzidzo chakasiyana neCardiff University chakasvika pamhedzisiro imwechete. Iyo BBC, yakati, "yakaratidza hurongwa hwehondo hwakanyanya pane chero mutepfenyuro we [British]".
Funga nezvekutanga nhepfenyuro yeNewsnight mushure mekuratidzira kukuru kwezvematongerwo enyika munhoroondo yeBritish musi wa15 Kukadzi. Hurukuro ye studio yaingove yekubvunzurudzwa nenhengo yeTory yeImba yeMadzishe, Tory MP, Oxford don, purofesa weLSE, mutauri kubva ku Times uye maonero eMunyori Wekunze, Jack Straw. Hapana kana mumwe chete aifora akakokwa kuti atore chikamu, hapana kana mumiriri wemamiriyoni maviri akanga azadza London mukupikisa. Panzvimbo pezvo, mutori wenhau wezvamatongerwe enyika, David Grossman, akabvunza nenzira isina kururama, kuti: “Zvakadiniko namamirioni asina kufora?
Kwanga kuri kuenda kuchitoro cheDIY kana kuona nhabvu neMugovera kuratidza kutsigira hurumende? "
Dingindira rinogara riri reBBC's Iraq yekuvhara nderekuti mutemo weAnglo-America, kunyangwe uchikwanisa "kukanganisa", une hunyoro, kunyangwe wakanaka. Saka, zvinoshamisa, Matt Frei, mutori wenhau weBBC kuWashington, akazivisa muna Kubvumbi 13: "Hapana kupokana kuti chishuwo chekuunza zvakanaka, kuunza hunhu hweAmerica kune dzimwe nyika, uye kunyanya iko zvino kuMiddle East ... akasungwa nesimba rehondo. Iro simba remauto “rakanaka” rakanga richangouraya vanhu vanosvika zviuru gumi nezvishanu mukurwisa kusiri pamutemo, kusingaderedzi munyika isina dziviriro.
Pasina kupokana abatwa nekunaka uku, Newsnight's Kirsty Wark akabvunza General Sir Mike Jackson, Mukuru weGeneral Staff, kana "mubatanidzwa"
mauto "haana simba rekubatsira vanhu vakanangwa nemauto eIraq muBasra". Zviripachena, akanzwa pasina chikonzero chekutarisa chokwadi chekutaura kweBritish kuti mauto eIraq anga achinangana nevagari vemuBasra, chirevo chakaratidza kuva nhema dzisina musoro.
Munguva yekubhomba kweSerbia muna 1999, Wark akabvunzurudza mumwe mukuru, Wesley Clark, mukuru weNato. Guta reSerbia reNi- rakanga richangopfapfaidzwa nemabhomba emuAmerican mabhomba, achiuraya vakadzi, vanhu vakuru nevana vakabatwa pachena: basa rinotyisa reimwe yezvombo zveNato “zvakatungamirwa”, izvo chete zvikamu zviviri muzana zvakarova mauto. . Wark haana kana mubvunzo mumwe chete pamusoro peizvi, kana nezverufu rwevanhu.
Iyi haisi mienzaniso yega, asi iyo BBC "maitiro". Chinokosha ndechekuti huchenjeri hwakagamuchirwa hunotonga uye hunodzivirirwa. Apo chombo cheUS chakauraya vanhu makumi matanhatu nevaviri pamusika muBaghdad, BBC News yakabata manyepo "ndiani angaziva kuti ndiani ane mhosva?" kusarerekera, nzira yakajairika kana hutsinye huri "hwedu". PaNewsnight, mutauri weBBC akarasa kuurayiwa uku nemashoko aya: "Ihondo mushure mezvose ... Asi chinangwa chemubatanidzwa ndechekubvisa Saddam Hussein nekukunda mwoyo nepfungwa." Inzwi rake raitevera pamifananidzo yehama dzaichema.
Pasinei nekupopotedzana pamusoro pekuedza kwaAndrew Gilligan kutaura chokwadi pamusoro pekunyepa kwehurumende yaBlair, kuwedzera kweBBC kwehurumende manyepo nezve "kutyisidzira" kubva kuIraq yaive tsika. Kazhinji musi wa 7 Ndira, BBC1's 6pm nhau bulletin yakashuma kuti mauto eBritish anochengetedzwa aishevedzwa "kuzotarisana nekutyisidzira kuri kukonzerwa neIraq". Kutyisidzira kwei?
Mukati mehondo yeGulf ya1991, vateereri veBBC vakaudzwa vasingaregi nezve“kuramwa kwokuvhiya” kwakanyatsojeka zvokuti hondo yakanga yava inenge sayenzi isina ropa. David Dimbleby akabvunza mumiriri weUnited States kuti: “Chokwadi hachisi chokwadi here kuti America, nokusarurama kwezvombo zvataona, ndiyo chete inogona kuva mupurisa wenyika yose?”
Dimbleby, sevamwe vake venhau, akanga asungwa; zvizhinji zvezvombo zvakanga zvapotsa mauto azvo ndokuuraya vanhuwo zvavo.
Muna 1991, maererano neGuardian, BBC yakaudza vatepfenyuri vayo kuti "vachenjere" pamusoro pemifananidzo yekufa nekukuvara kwevanhu. Izvi zvinogona kutsanangura kuti nei BBC yatipa mishoma yechokwadi chinotyisa - kuti maAmerican aingonanga zvivakwa zvevagari uye kuuraya kune rimwe divi. Nguva pfupi Krisimasi ya1991 isati yasvika, Medical Education Trust muLondon yakafungidzira kuti varume, vakadzi nevana vokuIraq vanopfuura 200,000 XNUMX vakanga vafa mukurwisa “kuvhiyiwa” uye mugumisiro wacho wapakarepo.
Kutsvaga mudura kwatadza kuwana chinhu chimwe chete cheBBC chinoshuma izvi. Saizvozvo, tsvakiridzo yeBBC yekuvhara kwezvikonzero nemhedzisiro yekurambidzwa kwemakore gumi nematatu kuIraq kwakatadza kuburitsa mushumo mumwe chete unoperetera izvo zvakataurwa naMadeleine Albright, munyori wehurumende waBill Clinton muchidimbu paakabvunzwa kana kufa hafu yemiriyoni yevana yaive mutengo wakakodzera kubhadhara kune zvirango. “Tinofunga kuti mutengo wacho wakakodzera,” akapindura kudaro.
Paive nekunyomba kwakawanda kwe "Chikara cheBaghdad", asi hapana pachokwadi chekuti, kusvika muna Chikunguru 2002, United States yaive ichivharira nemaune mari inodarika madhora mazana mashanu ezviuru zvekubatsira nekuvakazve kusvika kuIraq - rubatsiro rwakabvumidzwa neUN Security. Council uye yakabhadharwa neIraq. Munguva pfupi yapfuura ndakabvunza mutori wenhau anozivikanwa weBBC nezve izvi, uye iye
akapindura, kuti: “Ndakaedza, asi havafariri.”
Kune misiyano inokudzwa kune zvese izvi, hongu; asi seizvo hunhu hwekugadzirwa kweBBC huine vashoma vakaenzana, ndizvo zvakaitawo ngano dzayo dzekuzvimiririra nezve chinangwa, kusarerekera uye kuenzanisa zvine mashoma akaenzana - ngano dzakaratidza simba radzo kubva kuma1920s, apo John Reith, director weBBC wekutanga, akanyora muchivande propaganda. yehurumende yaTory Baldwin panguva yeGeneral Strike uye akacherechedza muzvinyorwa zvake kuti kusarerekera yaive musimboti unomiswa pese kana kurongeka kwakamiswa uye kubvumirana kwacho kuchityisidzirwa.
Saka, The War Game, Peter Watkins's brilliant film for the BBC about the effects of nuclear attack on Britain, yakadzvinyirirwa kwemakore 20.
Muna 1965, sachigaro webhodhi remagavhuna eBBC, Lord Normanbrook, vakayambira hurumende yeWilson muchivande kuti "kuratidzwa kwefirimu paterevhizheni kungave nekukanganisa maitiro everuzhinji kugwara rekudzivirira kwenyukireya".
Kazhinji, kurambidzwa zvachose hakuna basa, nekuti "kuenda kure", zvakaitwa naWatkins, zvinoodzwa mwoyo nemamiriro ekunze uye kudzidziswa. Kuti BBC, kufanana nevazhinji veAnglo-American media, inoshuma kuguma kwevanhu vose maererano nekushanda kwavo kune "isu", euphemism yesimba rekumadokero, uye inoshanda nekushingaira kuderedza kukanganisa kwehurumende dzeBritain mumhosva huru, ndega. -inooneka uye zvechokwadi isingafungire. Chinongova chikamu chetsika dzakapfuma.
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