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Pay Per View Propaganda
"By and large BBC journalism starts from the premise of leftwing ideology: it is hostile to conservatism and the traditional right, Britain's past and British values, America, Ulster unionism, Euroscepticism, capitalism and big business, the countryside, Christianity and family values. Conversely, it is sympathetic to Labour, European federalism, the state and state spending, mass immigration, minority rights, multiculturalism, alternative lifestyles, abortion, and progressiveness in the education and the justice systems."
- Daily Mail editor Paul Dacre. An abridged version of his speech on the BBC's "cultural Marxism" is published in The Guardian
Surprisingly (well...) the abridged version does not include Dacre's references to the "subsidiarat " - those left-leaning newspapers, including the Guardian, that could not exist without financial support from either the government, benevolent proprietors or cash cow sister publications.
Dacre's full lecture spoke of how the Guardian's anti-market ranters had their salaries paid by Auto Trader. The numerous advertisements for thousands of government-funded jobs that the newspaper's "Society" supplement carries each week pay a hefty sum into the Guardian's coffers too, and amounts to a subsidy.
The Taxpayer's Alliance put the annual cost of these jobs at close to £800 million: A few clicks around the Guardian's own Advertising Rate generator suggests that the cost of advertising them could be even more. EURSOC checked the rates for advertising a Housing Officer post - by no means the most prestigious job available: It's more than £9000 for a half page.
That's 18 grand, times (say) 40 for a conservative 40 page supplement, times 50 for Society's weekly appearance: £36,000,000 a year.
Again, these figures are estimates based on the chart below: We'd be delighted to hear from someone who has spent longer on the sums.
