To all who are rushing to excuse the BBC for its years-long drive to impose a social engineering project on the public: let’s remember Edward R. Murrow, who understood - as few did in the McCarthyite era - the essence of real journalism. It requires an independent mind, and above all courage to go against the grain.
Journalist Edward R. Murrow used his platform on CBS to criticize the witch hunts led by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s.
This is what real journalism should do — hold power to account, not capitulate to it.