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Hard hitting piece from Robin Aitken in the Speccie“ As fans of the BBC hit show Line of Duty know very well the ‘one rotten apple’ explanation for police corruption won’t wash. It’s never just the one – corruption flourishes only when it is facilitated by others. The corrupt officer needs others around them; people who will lie for them, cover-up for them, brazenly praise and reward them. This is logical because if the ‘bent copper’ is surrounded only by honest people they will be quickly rumbled; they need others who are dishonest, or morally weak, or who actively collude in their schemes. We know this. We’ve watched the series.”...“ The tone the BBC adopts is usually one of self-righteous superiority. It never tires of lecturing us – that we are bigoted, racist and uncaring. In its own eyes the BBC is always ‘on the right side’ – and the side it chooses is always the same side; it is the one favoured by progressive academics, human rights lawyers and any of its favoured victim groups. The BBC has an especial disdain for ‘populism’ and reserves its fiercest contempt for tabloid journalism. It gleefully reported the revelations of the Leveson inquiry into phone-hacking and its assiduous coverage of that story was meant to underscore the point: the BBC is different.That pious self-regard now looks deeply hypocritical and when the BBC next starts prating about climate change, or Black Lives Matter, we will remember the way the BBC lied and obfuscated, for years, about how it got its own famous Diana scoop. This episode showcases worse behaviour even than the tabloids stooped to.”https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/martin-bashir-and-the-bbc-s-line-of-duty
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