I want to write to Baroness Bakewell
Baroness Bakewell: ...out whistleblowers armed with internal memos and taped conversations of meetings.” Subsequently, after a programme referring to a complaint about the “Today” programme’s coverage of Iraq, he wrote: “Another reason why the Right should be aiming for the end of the BBC in its current form and the legalisation of TV political advertising.” In the autumn of that year, again:...
Baroness Bakewell: ...days. Churchill wanted to take over the studios during the war. Eden was furious over Suez. Mrs Thatcher complained about coverage of the Falklands War. Tony Blair was enraged by coverage of the Iraq war and the death of David Kelly. It is a testimony to the fact that the BBC, unlike other non-commercial national broadcasters, is not in the pocket of government or required to do their...