Does anybody still think the BBC is independent?

Well Michael Morris over at The American Thinker has something that might interest you.

Today, as reported by Tom Mangold in the London Evening Standard, it has emerged that in July of last year, while Greg Dyke was still head of the BBC, he had an outburst in which he told friends that he was contemplating spending three million pounds of his own money, to start a new political party in order to unseat Tony Blair as British PM.

One of Greg Dyke’s closest friends, Melvin Bragg said:

It’s true; he did say that he could form a new political party to challenge Tony Blair on the simple basis that it would bring about a change of leadership

The most astonishing aspect of this, of course, is that the DG of the BBC is meant to be totally independent. We are always being told that the BBC is supremely balanced and impartial in its coverage of the news, but these revelations concerning Greg Dyke’s comments about supporting a political campaign against Tony Blair, prove once and for all that the BBC is indeed a politicized broadcaster, and is anything but independent. It also confirms the feeling many have had for a long time that the BBC is in fact, institutionally biased.

Read the whole thing.