BBC – Big Bullshit Corporation

BBC – Big Bullshit Corporation

I have stopped tuning to BBC since it joined the anti-China bandwagon. I particularly hate to see the faces of these two presenters in its HARDtalk programme: Tim Sabastian and Stephen Sackur, especially in the way they try to twist and distort facts with their interviewees. Very sickening indeed! Nonetheless, I still keep an eye on this channel from time to time, basically to know how much they can lie about things on China.

However, when I first saw their clip showing how Hu Jintao was escorted out of the concluding session of the CPC’s 20^th National Congress, I felt disappointed with Xi Jinping. Xi seemed callous to Hu’s seemingly humiliating exit. And for the first time, I harboured doubt of Xi’s character. No one had come forward to explain the background of the scene, giving rise to all sorts of speculations. The West seemed to insinuate that this was China’s power play at its worst.

But on second thought, I knew Xi could not be that stupid. And when there were no follow-ups from BBC on the incident, I knew the issue was certainly not about the power play in China. True enough, it has emerged that it was more about Hu’s medical condition than anything else.

However, I do blame China's official media for not making any attempt to preempt such a misconception. This lack of PR ability or capacity is still very evident in China today. They did not seem to be able to go beyond their scripts. Another glaring example is the way they hold press conferences. Obviously, the questions had already been planted. You can see the answers were well prepared and read wholesale; little was left to spontaneous efforts. I suppose nobody wants to make any mistake.

Nonetheless, BBC's obvious attempt to insinuate further reinforces my contempt for its professionalism, or the lack of it. 

As a matter of fact, they had just distorted what had happened in the Chinese consulate in Manchester by saying that peaceful protesters had been dragged into the consulate to be bashed up! When other videos clips were made available and analyzed, BBC’s accusation was certainly exposed as dishonest. I posted some of these exposés and it prompted a member in one of our WhatsApp chat groups to brand BBC as “Big Bluff Corporation”. I am harsher than him. I think Big Bullshit Corporation is more befitting.

If there is anything that it can bash China, it will certainly do. I remember years ago, when 39 illegal migrants were found to have died from suffocation in a container that was being transported across the Chennel, BBC immediately gave the world the impression these unfortunate souls were Chinese. And no apology was offered when they knew they had made a bad call.