Droopy_McCool<p>@CEMedia@union.place Unsurprising to me that, as you report, the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@BBC" class="u-url mention">@<span>BBC</span></a></span> initially seemed very reluctant to report <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Zahawi" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Zahawi</span></a>’s tax avoidance! As AJP Taylor wryly remarked, [former Director General] Reith had<br />"managed to preserve the technical independence of the BBC by suppressing news which the government did not want published. This set a pattern for the future: the vaunted independence of the <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBC" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BBC</span></a> was secure so long as it was NOT exercised" <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/BBCPropaganda" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BBCPropaganda</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/EstablishmentMedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>EstablishmentMedia</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/StateBroadcaster" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>StateBroadcaster</span></a></p>