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The BBC has announced the appointment of former Google executive Matt Brittin as its new director-general, placing the UK’s state media outlet in the hands of a tech businessman with no media experience.

In a statement on Wednesday, BBC chairman Samir Shah said Brittin will take over the reins at the broadcaster in May, six months after outgoing director-general Tim Davie announced his resignation.

Brittin, who worked as Google’s EMEA president from 2014 to 2024, was chosen for his “deep experience of leading a high-profile and highly-complex organisation through transformation,” Shah said.

Brittin’s appointment comes at a nadir for the BBC. The broadcaster is facing a $10 billion lawsuit from US President Donald Trump over a documentary that deceptively edited a speech he gave before his supporters rioted at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. During Davie’s five-year tenure, the BBC has slashed its budget by 10%, been accused of both pro- and anti-Israel bias, had one of its anchors sentenced for child sex crimes, and struggled to keep its government-backed World Service outlets open.

In a speech to parliament in 2024, Davie declared that the BBC was losing the “cognitive war” to “RT and other Chinese services.”

The politics-media-tech revolving door

Brittin is the first ever BBC chief without any prior experience in newspaper or broadcast media, save for joining the board of The Guardian last year. His appointment represents the continued consolidation of big tech, politics, and media across the Western world: Apart from their own algorithms controlling the reach of legacy media outlets and de-facto dictating what they can and cannot say via content guidelines, tech billionaires have bought up a number of struggling media outlets in recent years.

Amazon purchased the Washington Post for $250 million in 2013. Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison and his son David have acquired CBS parent company Paramount and have made a bid for Warner Brothers Discovery, which owns CNN and HBO. Other tycoons have chosen to found their own media outlets. Among them are The Republic and Arena magazine, launched by defense contractor Palantir and venture capitalist Max Meyer respectively.

Meanwhile, Silicon Valley corporations have taken in media bosses who once criticized them, and politicians once tasked with regulating them. Journalist and former UK Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg joined Meta in 2018, going on to lead the company’s Global Affairs department from 2022 to 2025. Former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne joined OpenAI last year, while former Prime Minister Rishi Sunak now advises Microsoft and Anthropic, whose Claude AI is currently used by the Pentagon to assess potential targets for military strikes.

As of last April, at least 36 British officials who worked for technology regulators had gone on to work for the companies they regulated, according to an investigation by BBC Radio 4.

Whoever Brittin names as CEO of BBC News will ultimately decide whether an investigation would go ahead in future. Brittin’s choice of news chief will also shape the BBC’s editorial tone on issues such as Google’s contribution to Britain’s revenues. Grilled by lawmakers in 2012 and 2014 over the firm’s alleged underpayment of tax in the UK, Brittin eventually negotiated a deal with the British government that saw Google pay £130 million ($173 million) in back taxes.

Critics argued that this sum represented a fraction of what Google actually owed, with Labour MP John McDonnell claiming that the firm struck a “sweetheart deal” with the government.

https://www.rt.com/news/636191-bbc-director-brittin-google/

 

YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

SEE ALSO: 

media controls — 42 years ago in the encyclopaedia britannica…...

killing the nuz....

 

https://www.abc.net.au/mediawatch/episodes/google/106487258

Google AI summaries mean opportunity for big news players, and Armageddon for the little guys.

Read a statement from an ABC spokesperson here. A statement from a Guardian spokesperson here. A response from Dr Ashwin Nagappa from QUT Digital Media Research Centre here. And a statement from Barry Adams, Founder, Polemic Digital here. 

 

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ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEM WITH "JOURNALISM" — HONEST NON-BIASED JOURNALISM — HAS BEEN THE FLUIDITY OF INFORMATION COMING FROM THE "INTELLIGENCE" AGENCIES [CIA/NSA ET AL] POLLUTING THE TRUTH WITH "OPINIONS" AND VARIOUS FAKE POLICIES AND PREDICTIONS. 

AS WELL, MOST WESTERN JOURNALISTS ARE ATTACHED TO A BIG MEDIA PLAYER THAT HAS INVESTMENTS IN THE WAY THE NEWS [LIES, PORKIES, ADAPTATION OF OFFICIAL SOURCES, POLITICAL INFLUENCES] IS TOLD. 

FOR EXAMPLE, WE SAW HOW THE PURPOSE OF THE WAR ON IRAQ WAS MANAGED BY THE US GOVERNMENT: THE MEDIA ORGANISATIONS BOUGHT AND SOLD A LIE.

PRESENTLY, THE SAME DISTORTION HAS BEEN TOLD BY THE WESTERN MEDIA ABOUT THE CONFLICT IN UKRAINE... 

ONLY A HANDFUL OF INDEPENDENT MEDIA DARE TELL THE TRUTH... AND HORROR, EVEN SOMEONE LIKE TUCKER CARLSON TELLS THE FUQUING TRUTH! 

MEANWHILE THE PLATFORMS, LIKE GOOGLE AND META, CONTROL A LARGE SLICE OF THE DATA BEING CONSUMED BY PEOPLE. 

WE HAVE NO IDEA WHERE SOME OF OUR INFORMATION COMES FROM, YET WE HAVE TO PLACE OUR TRUST IN SOME PLAYERS, INCLUDING MANY OF THE FORMER CIA OPERATIVES, WHO TELL US WHAT WE THINK WE WANT TO HEAR. WE COMBINE THESE IMPORTANT VOICES WITH THE RUSSIAN MEDIA AND THE CHINESE MEDIA WHICH FOR ALL THEIR FUNDINGS AND OPINIONS, ARE MORE TRUTHFUL THAN EVEN THE GUARDIAN...

IN AUSTRALIA, THE ABC IS THE LAST BASTION OF REAL NEWS, BUT IT IS TIMID AND RARELY GOES AGAINST THE "TREND". SO, THE ABC [AND SBS] WILL CARRY ON PROMOTING "RUSSIA BAD, U.S. AND EU GOOD." EVEN IF DONE SO LIGHTLY WITH COLOUR STORIES ABOUT SUFFERINGS IN UKRAINE, BUT NOT MENTIONING THE CORE ISSUES THAT HAVE ENGENDERED THIS SITUATION...

WE TRY HARD, DAILY, TO POSITION OUR VIEWS TO AN INESCAPABLE RESOLUTION OF THE CONFLICTS, INCLUDING THAT PRESENTLY BEING PLAYED IN THE MIDDLE EAST... WE MAY NOT HAVE ALL THE DETAILS, BUT OUR GEOPOLITICAL SOURCES ARE MOSTLY SOUND, INCLUDING AI GENERATED SOURCES...

THESE AI GENERATED YOUTUBE VIDEOS, ARE USUALLY BRINGING THE LATEST EVENTS ON THE HOUR, BEFORE THEY MAKE THE NEWS A DAY LATER. 

WE COULD BE DECEIVED AS WELL. BUT WE TRY HARD TO FIND ARTICLES AND INFORMATION THAT PROMOTES THE TRUTH. AND IN THE FRAY, THOUGH WE SEEM TO HAVE A HIT AND MISS WITH OUR AUDIENCE, SOME POSTINGS ATTRACT MORE READS THAN EVER BEFORE. 

THE CARTOON BELOW WAS POSTED ON 30 Apr 2005 AND IS STILL CURRENT, WITH OPINIONS ADDING THE CIA AND NSA DISINFORMATION IN THE MIX... 

 

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         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

 

AI nuz....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZuJfJMY-r4

Iran Just Destroyed a $270 Million AWACS — America Lost Its Eyes Over the Gulf

 

Iran just shot down a $270 million E-3 Sentry AWACS over the Persian Gulf, killing all 17 crew aboard. The aircraft that tracked 600 targets simultaneously across 250 miles is gone. Iran spent $15 million on the missile—a 15-to-1 cost advantage. America now operates without persistent surveillance coverage. Remaining AWACS pulled back 250+ miles, creating detection gaps Iranian drones are already exploiting. Replacement timeline: 18 months minimum. This isn't about one aircraft. This is about the collapse of American information dominance.

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.

AI nuzz....

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIkkcWAqLBY&t=181

1 MIN AGO: Iran Strikes Ben Gurion Airport a Second Time — Israel's Last Exit Is Gone For Good

 

One minute ago Iranian missiles hit Ben Gurion Airport again. The same runways Israeli engineering crews have been working around the clock to repair. The same terminal the Israeli government has been publicly describing as days from partial reopening. Iran watched the reconstruction. It watched the government begin communicating a reopening timeline to a population that has been living without an exit since the first strike. And the moment that timeline became credible Iran struck it again. Not to finish what the first strike started. The first strike closed the airport. This strike closed it permanently. Because the message of the second strike is not the same as the first. The first said we can reach Ben Gurion. The second says every time Israel rebuilds it we will strike it again. Israel's last exit is not temporarily closed. It is gone for good.

In this video, we cover:

• Why Iran timed the second Ben Gurion strike to the moment the reconstruction was visible and the reopening was being communicated rather than before reconstruction began or after reopening completed, and what destroying the recovery narrative at its most credible moment achieves beyond the physical damage to the runway infrastructure

• What the difference between a temporary airport closure with a timeline and a permanent closure enforced by an adversary that will strike every reconstruction that reaches operational threshold means for every crisis management response that was built on the assumption of Ben Gurion's eventual return to operation

• What the approximately 170,000 foreign nationals still in Israel were told between the first and second strikes about the reopening timeline and what the permanent closure means for the governments now asking Jerusalem and Washington how to evacuate citizens from a country whose primary international airport will be struck again the moment it becomes functional

Iran struck Ben Gurion twice. It struck the runway and it struck the idea that what Iran destroys can be rebuilt. Israel's last exit is gone for good. And the government that told its population it was coming back has nothing left to say.

 

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YOURDEMOCRACY.NET RECORDS HISTORY AS IT SHOULD BE — NOT AS THE WESTERN MEDIA WRONGLY REPORTS IT — SINCE 2005.

 

         Gus Leonisky

         POLITICAL CARTOONIST SINCE 1951.