For all its neuroses, the BBC should have self-confidence
Conservatives hate the corporation, but the public trust and
will always defend it against looming depredations     • The
Guardian,     • Jump to comments () Peter Sissons, the former
BBC newsreader, has attacked the BBC for what he says is its
left-wing bias. Photograph: BBC  The loathing the Conservative
party and its newspapers harbour towards the BBC is an odd
phenomenon. How they detest it, not just for particular faults,
but because its very existence is an affront to everything they
believe about markets. There it stands – a great monolithic arm
of the state – yet one of the most successful, envied and
admired organisations in the world, the wellspring of success
for our creative industries. It breathes the Britishness
conservatives are supposed to conserve, yet they itch to pull it
apart.  The sight of a sour old BBC presenter of yesteryear
plugging his memoirs in the Daily Mail and attacking the hand
that fed him rather well for 20 years migh