Last week the BBC’s Newsnight programme broadcast an unchallenged opinion piece by opaquely-funded think-tank the IEA, which routinely promotes ‘reform’ of the NHS that appears to be all about privatisation and ‘americanisation’ of the NHS. NHS campaigners were not given any right of reply, let alone an uncontested slot of several minutes.
The video below, put together by Simon Baker of EL4C and featuring NHS campaigner Deborah Harrington, is what the programme might have shown if we lived in an alternative universe where the BBC was a genuinely impartial and objective broadcaster.
It tells a completely different story of the real reform the NHS needs:
Last week Newsnight broadcast an opinion piece by the IEA, a right wing, free market think tank, calling for NHS "reform".
The BBC didn't give NHS campaigners the right to reply, so we though we'd ask Deborah Harrington of @ThePublicMatter to tell us what "reform" really means. pic.twitter.com/9JNqV1b22A
— EL4C (@EL4JC) July 10, 2018
Since we do not live in an alternative universe in which the BBC is genuinely impartial, it’s up to you to make sure this is seen as widely as it needs to be.
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There’s no video
Pete, if you see two images – it’s the second, lower one – worked fine for me on W7 x64 with Chrome.
Health professionals are articulate people – I wonder how many would welcome the opportunity to speak on camera if they were asked?
A hospital car park full of off-shift doctors speaking as one from an agreed script would be difficult to explain away as ‘a few malcontents’.
Wouldn’t want anyone to jeopardise their careers but one or two doctors speaking out every so often is too easily ignored by the media, the Tories and the public.
A sea of white coats explaining the stark reality would be something the MSM would have to pick up surely?
Where’s the video please?
Try this – its an embedded tweet: https://twitter.com/EL4JC/status/1016743802772615168
El4JC also posted it on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/EL4JC/videos/774254936298746/?hc_ref=ARSyn5HONPtrC2rhPKuLh_Bue5M5vzeyn2qpzzytJEI6hZd8Wdo-pyw2Lt-gEHFFECY
WHICH NIGHT WAS THE PIECE ON NHS REFORM BY IEA BROADCAST? I NEVER WATCH IT EXCEPT TO COMPLAIN.
2 July I believe. You can see it on YouTube https://youtube.com/watch?v=FZXB14-soSg
Newsnight also spiked a story exposing Jimmy Savile.