Owen Jones the left-wing British newspaper columnist, commentator, journalist, author and political activist is well known to those of us on the Brexiteer, Climate Change Denying “Far Right”!
Yesterday, Owen’s blood pressure was raised by BBC Breakfast in the corporations muted coverage of Dear Donald’s annexationist demands on Greenland.
In his YouTube video (https://youtu.be/zrxRQWxUYPs?si=ydnMz0NFzZZKteSz) Owen chided the BBC in the way he chides the rest of us from time to time demanding that the BBC should describe a military annexation of Greenland as an invasion (which is what it would be) and not the muted “acquisition” the broadcasters used.
Owen is a passionate political activist and I empathise with his passion in this instance. However: Owen should realise that the BBC is very much the state broadcaster. This does not mean that the corporation parrots the party line of the government of the day. It does however mean that the corporation adopts an editorial line that is very much defending and supporting the establishment. This is NOT a new policy. It has had this policy since it’s formation over 100 years ago.
This policy was at it’s height during WW2.
I do not listen to BBC Breakfast so when I viewed Owen’s video it was my first time of looking. My take on the broadcast was different and more informed than Owen’s.
IMHO the reserved approach the Labour government is adopting on the Greenland Crisis is indicative of two things:
#1: The UK’s desperate efforts to keep Trump supportive of Ukraine and not to annoy him needlessly.
#2: The reserved approach being a cover for more substantive action should Trump cross the Rubicon and commit US forces to an occupation of Greenland pending formal annexation.
Be in NO doubt, the Greenland Crisis is the most serious crisis to confront NATO since the Cuban Missile Crisis (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis) in 1962.
I have been “out of the loop” in relation to the UK defence industry since June 1984.
I could speculate but given the circumstances, I am not going to.