The CPB statement sounds reasonable ??? It sounds bloody soft if you ask me ! .Quote" again misreporting events and does its bit to stoke the embers of anticommunism and the Cold War. It has even been known to blacklist communists. But we won’t take that personally!" . Won't take it personally ? Well you should .In this country the left is too soft for its own good .
We should be welcoming the end of the TV licence fee which is a burden on the unemployed , low paid and pensioners . Why on earth do we need to pay to watch tv. Surely the abolition of the tv licence was a demand of the old CPGB ?
The BBC is part of the state machine and aren't we supposed be smashing the state ?
The arguments about the BBC being a 'public broadcaster ' ( again I seem to remember the old CPGB putting time and effort in refuting the idea that nationalisation under capitalism somehow equated socialism ) are hollow . The BBC was set up and run in such a way as to prevent lefties from taking it over ; staff were positively vetted and communists and communist sympathisers were excluded .
At the end of the day the mainstream media , whether state or private is controlled by the ruling class and the bourgeoisie .It is simply a case of the same poison but in bottles with different lablels .