The directors of the BBC, its board of governors are nearly always part of the ruling class, often with Oxbridge and private school backgrounds. It tends overwhelmingly to support the wars of the rich, cheerleading the invasion of Iraq, for instance, at a time when two million people had taken to the streets in the biggest popular protest in UK history in order to demonstrate against that same war. Indeed a study at the time revealed the BBC to display ‘the most "pro-war" agenda of any broadcaster’. The state broadcaster also coordinated with MI5 in vetting journalists for any radical political sensibilities they might have. More
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