Picture this: It's 2025, and while Elon Musk is plotting Mars colonies and trillion-dollar robot armies, two taxpayer-funded behemoths, the BBC in Blighty and the ABC Down Under, are still churning out what feels like 1970s agitprop, dressed up as "impartial" journalism. Allister Heath's blistering Telegraph takedown on November 5 nailed it: "The awful truth about the BBC is now too monstrous to hide." Behind the paywall, he eviscerates our national broadcaster as a hotbed of "pernicious Leftist orthodoxy," turning institutions into echo chambers of woke groupthink. Britain, Heath argues, is rotting from the inside, and the BBC's not just complicit, it's the accelerant. Sound familiar, Aussies? Swap "BBC" for "ABC," and it's your own backyard barbecue of bias, where the snags are cooked left-of-centre and the truth gets charred.
Heath's piece isn't some lone rant; it's the boiling point of years of festering fury. Leaked docs reveal BBC reporters self-censoring on trans issues to appease an internal "LGBTQ desk" that spikes dissenting views. Their Arabic service? Accused of parroting Hamas propaganda, spreading lies that "pushed [them] around the world." X users are piling on: "The BBC has been pushing out leftist disinformation propaganda for years," thunders one, calling for a full defund. Another: "BBC & Haaretz... have any less bias media?" It's not hyperbole; it's pattern recognition. When your "public service" broadcaster treats Western values like they're optional extras, it's not serving the public, it's serving an ideology.
Now, flip the globe to Oz, where the ABC mirrors this mess like a Vegemite-stained funhouse. Media Bias/Fact Check slaps it with "Left-centre biased," citing story selection that "moderately favours the left," though it scores high on facts. But trust me, that "high" is cold comfort when headlines skew toward loaded Labor love-ins and Coalition carps. Critics from the Institute of Public Affairs torch it as a "conservative-free zone," a "Leftist propaganda machine" uncritically amplifying Kevin Rudd's Murdoch grudge-fests. X echoes the outrage: "ABC lefties are so inculcated by the leftist parasite that even a hint of balance is seen as bias." And don't get me started on election debates, Albo wants the ABC to host. That's like letting the fox moderate the henhouse Q&A.
Sure, the ABC's defenders (often from its own ranks) cry foul: "Far from having a Leftwing bias, [it's] been tamed by cuts and incessant attacks." Reddit threads flip-flop, with some Aussies griping it's swung rightward under pressure. Fair dinkum? Maybe it's overcorrecting into a zigzag of mediocrity. But when News Corp and Libs lob grenades, and the ABC responds by tiptoeing around "occupation" in Gaza reports to dodge "radical Lefty" tags, that's not impartiality, it's institutional paralysis. Taxpayers fork out $1B+ annually for this? It's like subsidising a fax machine in the age of fibre optics.
So, yeah, close them down! Or at least gut the bloat: Scrap the TV license fee in the UK (good luck prying it from Starmer's grip) and privatise/slimline the ABC here. Redirect funds to niche public goods, rural broadband, emergency alerts, actual investigative pods on biosmuggling scandals or AI doomsdays. Let the market handle the rest: Sky News for the right, Guardian for the greens, X for the unhinged masses. Bias won't vanish, but at least you'll choose your poison without a compulsory chaser.
Heath's "monstrous" truth? It's not just about the Beeb or the Box, it's a symptom of elite capture, where "public" broadcasters peddle private prejudices on the public's dime. In decaying democracies, trust is the first casualty. Time to pull the plug, reboot the signal, and let free speech flourish without the socialist static.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/11/05/bbc-poisonous-group-think-destroying-britain/