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The Treason of the BBC
On the Existence of, and possible solutions for, the human population problem:-
the Beeb sees, hears, & says, almost NOTHING! WHY?
By Jack Parsons
ISBN: 1-904791-05-0
£8.50
This author probably has better qualifications than anyone else for writing a book of this type. In various ways he has been in contact with the BBC for 56 years and still has virtually all of the documentation on file.
His case against the BBC is
set out in three logical stages.
Stage 1 lists a baker’s dozen of types of reasons showing that there
always have been, are now, and probably always will be, problems in balancing
human numbers vis-a-vis resources at an acceptable quality of life. He
then argues that these vital matters concern the whole of society so that the
media – especially the BBC – have a profound and basic duty to help keep us all
properly informed and consulted.
Stage 2 proves, fact by fact and letter by letter to and from various
programs and top executives, that the BBC refuses to give more than fleeting
cover to these vital questions regarding either the UK or the world as a whole.
The last straw for JP was when BBC Information argued that his criticism was
invalid as there had been a BBC program on the population problem back in 1992.
He then told them that he would not waste any more time trying to get them to
accept a reasoned case but would instead present the material in a book.
Stage 3 shows how in what he calls ‘The Good Old Days’ (60s on) the BBC
put out wide-ranging presentations and discussions – in which he himself took an
active part – on the key human population problems; hunger, poverty, excess
mortality, conflict over scarce resources, damage to the environment, to
wildlife, carrying capacity, and so forth. He shows that there has been a
complete volte-face and the book is powerful demand that this be reversed
forthwith
There is an ‘Authors Apologia’, a few ‘Late Notes’, a copy of the BBC Producer’s
Guidelines – which state that ‘no significant strand of thought’ may be ignored
– and a bibliography
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