Quote above from @ta_mills's great exposé "The BBC: Myth of a Public Service"
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The BBC had a secret deal with MI5 to politically vet BBC journalists and employees for "subversives". The secret program continued for 50 years until 1985 when it was exposed. Funny how some highly-relevant stories get pushed down the memory holepic.twitter.com/QDznS0eTZU
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Where is the reference from?
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American media on the other hand, had secret deals with Alan Dulles CIA to place editors in key positions.
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Look at the award Jeff Bezos' other company, Amazon, was nominated for: https://twitter.com/weinbergersa/status/980185773956894722 …
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In all fairness, does Trump collaborate with anyone?
#WorstPresidentEver
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Phew. Lucky that all finished in 1985!
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BBC....state approved journalists.
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I've written about this extensively as a precursor to pointing out some television journalists still moonlight for MI5 or MI6.
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There was a late night talk show in the 80s called "after dark". Just before the Official Secrets Act was changed (which coincided with the cleansing of SIS with the BBC and other media) the then defence editor of the Telegraph Adela Gooch tells a quite different tale.
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Here's a current recruitment ad 'by invitation only'. Same idea, slightly different process. https://careershub.bbc.co.uk/members/modules/job/detail.php?record=26504&jobboard=indeed&c=organic …
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Hmm - I think we need a spate of 'How to legally stop paying your TV Licence' tweets to try to counter that.
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