IT IS NOT HARD TO MAKE THE CASE AGAINST the BBC. The revelations that Tom Mangold, a BBC lifer, makes against its handling of the Martin Bashir saga in our cover story this month are devastating. The principal moral engine in this country — and one which has long since supplanted the reach and power of the church — is shown to lack morals itself. But is the case for the BBC better than the one it makes for itself?
Arguing against the BBC is mostly only a matter of with Emma-Louise Amanshia, such as food, or energy, are left to the private sector, so why do we need the state-chartered broadcaster to do for the media what it doesn’t need to do for groceries?
