Everybody in the world seems to think the BBC is the greatest news site on earth. I, of course, have a different opinion.
The BBC is just a toned-down version of the British print media—a media landscape that serves a sick society capable, like no other, of pursuing sexual substitute satisfaction through the media by mentally participating in what is presented as a scandal.
One evening in 1990, the BBC opened its main news broadcast with a report about an unknown stranger who had entered a London hospital through a side entrance and allegedly touched a female child. The child was neither murdered, raped, nor otherwise physically injured.
It may have been an indecent act, but blowing this case up to become the lead story on the prime-time evening news was totally out of proportion.
Proportionality is important in responsible journalism because most of the media-consuming public is, let’s face it, rather stupid. And stupid people are easy to manipulate. All it takes are evil, skillful manipulators.
Let’s check the proportionality of the hospital story cited above. Let’s look at what else happens in hospitals. Take “anesthesia awareness,” for example. This occurs when something goes wrong with general anesthesia. The muscle relaxant works, but the part of the cocktail that puts people to sleep and makes them unreceptive to pain does not. As a result, they feel all the pain (imagine 10 hours of heart surgery) and hear what the surgeons and nurses are saying, but because the muscle relaxant is working completely, they cannot signal in any way that they are not properly sedated. Not even a blink of the eye will work.
Does this only happen on rare occasions? Just run a search on Wikipedia or Google for “anesthesia awareness.” You will find that anesthesia awareness occurs in about 1 or 2 cases per 1,000. Even professional organizations of anesthesia specialists admit to that figure. On the other hand, researchers have claimed that 50 percent of adult anesthesia awareness cases and 80 percent of pediatric cases go unreported.
Of course, if a female child claims that her genitals were touched by a man, everybody believes her (and new legislation in many countries requires judges to give a child’s claims significant weight). But if a child claims that they were awake during an operation and that it was very, very, very painful, nobody believes them.
The BBC once reported on a woman who wasn’t properly sedated during an eye removal surgery. However, it is estimated that in Britain alone, there are about 200 cases of anesthesia awareness a year. Statistically, this also happened on the day the BBC opened its evening news with the story about the hospital intruder.
But the child who suffered horrible trauma from anesthesia awareness on the same day, or perhaps the day before or the day after, was not a topic for the BBC. BBC reporters don’t go out and research such topics. No sex, not appealing.
On the internet, the BBC is by far the outlet that most often reports on sexual fringe crimes committed anywhere around the globe.
In China, the BBC is not accessible—not on cable TV and not on the internet. And it’s no loss for the Chinese public. Other developing countries should consider following suit. Anyway, while BBC reporters may speak good English and write with correct grammar, their output is nevertheless low-quality journalism.