Slashing the BBC will embolden “democratic disruption” by Russian and Chinese state-controlled propaganda outlets around the world, the corporation’s chairman claimed last night.
Sir David Clementi also warned that partisan US-style news channels could arrive in the UK, further dividing society, if impartial public service news organisations such as the BBC were not supported.
He acknowledged that the BBC could make mistakes but suggested that politicians who wanted to cut its funding should be careful what they wished for. “While many of our critics from the left and right argue vehemently that we do not always get it right, few of them can really want the polarisation of media that we see in our newspapers, or the polarisation of television news that we see in
