What's really distressing is that a majority of Americans under 40, indoctrinated since kindergarten, approve of this

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Tim Blair: BBC is purging entire sketches from its comedy archives

By its own admission, the BBC has been deleting entire sketches from comedy series that are 50, 60, or 70 years old, many of which can be heard only with the BBC’s permission. Are we simply to assume that the public supports this development? And, if so, are we permitted to wonder why the BBC was not open about it?

And what about the poor bastards at the BBC dutifully combing through the archives to remove ancient wrongthink? They’re real-life Winston Smiths:

The “process of continuous alteration” in which Smith was engaged, Orwell wrote in 1984, “applied not only to newspapers, but to books, periodicals, pamphlets, posters, leaflets, films, sound-tracks, cartoons, photographs – to every kind of literature or documentation which might conceivably hold any political or ideological significance,” such that “day by day and almost minute by minute the past was brought up to date.”

What better description could one find of what the BBC is now doing to its canon?

Here’s a Pew poll from 2015 showing that 40% of millennials support this type of censorship. I saw another one today, which I can’t lay my hands on, but the number now, after seven more years of media and the education establishment’s steady drumming, is well over 50%.

It’s frightening, and depressing, to realize that these uneducated, silly people aren’t even aware of what they’re giving back to the government. Of course, that’s exactly what you’d expect when the history of the revolution and the freedoms fought for by the founders of this country is wiped out and reduced to a tale of white slave masters and the raping of a verdant wilderness, period. Expected, and exactly as planned.

UPDATE: And the indoctrinators aren’t stopping. The NEA has entered into a partnership with a far-left “fact-checking” service to guide and steer students’ to the left.

From the NEA Announcement:

Under the terms of the pathbreaking licensing agreement, coinciding with National News Literacy Week(link is external), the AFT’s 1.7 million members, tens of millions of kids they teach, and their families, can now receive free, real-time “traffic light” news ratings and detailed “Nutrition Label” reviews, via a licensed copy of NewsGuard’s browser extension, whenever they search the web for news and information.

For years, educators have fought battles against suspect sourcing, with their students often misled by dubious outlets and spam sites posing as “news.” NewsGuard offers a practical solution, alerting students and educators to those sites while also providing a valuable lesson in media literacy.

The “traffic light” news rating and “Nutrition Label” are supposedly designed to inform news consumers of the accuracy, honesty, and reliability of a given news site. NewsGuard created these tools to help people avoid being deceived by “misinformation,” which, as you already know, is defined as “any opinion that conflict with the left.”

The Media Research Center (MRC) conducted a study in December 2021, in which it found “extraordinary left-wing bias” in NewsGuard’s rating methodology. It found a 27-point disparity on average between left-wing sites and right-wing sites. You can guess which side of the aisle has the higher average score, right?

MRC’s assessment showed NewsGuard rating left-wing site the Nation, and Jacobin, an unabashedly Marxist site, at 93 percent while the average rating for conservative outlets like Fox News, Breitbart News, and the Washington Times was 66 percent. It is not difficult to imagine that these disparities are specifically intended to make left-wing outlets appear more credible than those on the right. It also seems obvious that the AFT, which is led by union boss Randi Weingarten, is trying to ensure students are not as frequently exposed to non-progressive sites as they are with left-leaning outlets.

The browser extension would show a green checkmark for sites NewsGuard deems to be “credible” and a red exclamation point for those that “fail to meet the basic standards of credibility.”

“For years, educators have fought battles against suspect sourcing, with their students often misled by dubious outlets and spam sites posing as ‘news,’” the AFT announcement declared. “AFT President Randi Weingarten hailed the deal as a game-changer for teachers and families drowning in an ocean of online dishonesty.”

Weingarten lauded NewsGuard as “a beacon of clarity to expose the dark depths of the internet and uplift those outlets committed to truth and honesty rather than falsehoods and fabrications.”

And so it goes — on.