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Open Letter to "Alice" about Domestic Violence

George Rolph 2004

Hi Alice

I have talked to lots of people about this and many are saying they do not trust the BBC to take the issue seriously or present a fair picture. There is a huge disquiet about the BBC and the way it deals with ordinary people, its political leanings, its feminist stance and the way it has treated people like Kilroy.

For the mens movement much of this damage was done during the "Hitting Home" series the BBC ran a while back, and after they refused to alter misleading facts that appeared on their web site and only agreed to let the public hear about male victims after huge protests. It was felt then that the BBC was censoring information, misleading the public, treating the mens movement and their evidence for male victims of domestic violence with contempt and were not interested in anything that detracted from the radical feminist world view of the issues as postulated by Women`s Aid etc.

Many of these concerns are reflected in the attitudes and thinking of my friends and family. Outside of the mens movement there is a growing awareness of the BBC`s political bias and refusal to report anything that upsets the government and this is despite the recent attempt to snow job the British people over the Gilligan affair. Men and women are remarking that fewer and fewer male presenters are appearing and that this is as sexist as having no female presenters.

It seems the BBC lives in a bubble of 1970`s politically correct thinking most of the rest of the people left behind in the 1970`s and the corporation is losing credibility and the trust of more and more people because of it.

Though I doubt that the arrogant BBC will ever listen to views like these I do feel that if they do not they will not survive much longer. The people will not pay for a service that no longer reflects their views and treats them like political morons, to be manipulated by fools who think a degree in journalism and a plummy accent makes them a better class of pleb than the rest of us.

You may not believe this Alice but after the "Hitting Home" fiasco I spent a lot of energy and time trying to repair trust in the BBC among the mens groups here in the UK and world wide. That effort was largely succeeding. Now however, there is a growing perception that if you are not a black, female or gay man, radical feminist supporter your views are unimportant to the BBC and that the BBC is simply a mirror of government thinking.

That you are finding it hard to find men to speak to you on these issues is a reflection of the level of distrust in the BBC I am afraid. No one wants to appear on a BBC program that films men discussing painful issues and then gives the last word to yet another politically correct, out of touch, biased and dogmatic radical feminist spokesperson from either the government, or some other female only orientated organisation that cannot see further than the end of their own narrow minds and bigotted attitudes. We have been there and done that. The only light that shon for male issues at the BBC was Kilroy and the PC monsters in policy descision making at the BBC stabbed him in the back. That will not be quickly forgotten. As a means of suppressing dissent within the BBC it may have been an exercise that has a measure of success. For the country as a whole, it only served to infuriate even more licence payers. Our grandfathers and granmothers fought the likes of Goebels who used the public broadcasting services to manipulate the people and we will be dammed if we shall let the same thinking prevail here in the UK today.

Feel free to pass this email on to those whoes job it is to worry about the way the BBC is percieved but let me warn them in advance that because of nasty people like Alistair Cambell, the public have learned to see through spin so it would be yet another mistake for the BBC to try and spin their way out of mistrust. Only an update in thinking that truely reflects modern society will achieve that.

But hey...... what do I know? I am only a pleb...... right?

By the way, and as an aside, did you know that men get breast cancer also?

No?

Why would you? No one cares do they!

WRONG. WE CARE!

Last Update: 5 February 2004

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