![]() ![]() ![]() 'You live with the realisation that if I put a foot wrong, the mob will descend.' 'We're fighting our own culture war within the Corporation,' he added. A small but significant number of the BBC's staff had appointed themselves would-be censors, he said. I thought of it again last week, when a senior figure told me about 'a climate of fear' at the Corporation, surrounding stories on race and on transgender issues. ![]() The Orwell statue only appeared in 2017, towards the end of my time there – I was a BBC foreign correspondent for 25 years – but I've always felt that particular line stands for something important about the way journalism should be done. Visitors to Broadcasting House, the BBC's headquarters in London, are greeted by a statue of George Orwell, along with this sentence from his work: 'If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.' ![]()
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