2023-06-13
There's no such thing as bad publicity - or so the saying goes, in which case the BBC has done the Light free newspaper a favour by running their disinformation correspondent Marianna Spring over not only their output, but also over their editor Darren Nesbit.
Before I go any further - full disclosure - Free Citizen UK advertises in the Light. Not because they or we are "far right" (in the BBC's favoured vernacular), but because we are both motivated to cover similar ground, namely, freedom of speech, and those topics and viewpoints that the mainstream (including the BBC) somehow have entirely failed to cover.
That there is no shortage of such opportunity should provide pause for thought.
We are by no means the only people stepping forward to fill that vacuum, as the vast wealth of alternative providers on YouTube, Bitchute, Rumble, Odysee (the list goes on) and indeed the world-wide-web attest.
We also like to quote our relevant sources where possible (perhaps Ms Spring may learn from us?).
She makes much of Mr Nesbit's reluctance to disavow the use of force in all conceivable circumstances, but does the BBC apply the same standards to the use of force to "defend the Ukraine"? We are all and always entitled to the use of reasonable force as a last resort in our defence against aggression, wherever that aggression may come from, including in extremis from the forces of the State.
That the amply-funded BBC thinks it necessary to run a piece decrying the work of a private free newspaper of comparatively trivial circulation which is voluntarily funded (and delivered) by individual citizens (and is indeed thriving to the extent of now producing an Irish version!) must say something about the public's perception of the news media in the UK today (and indeed, vice versa).
