Is this the BBC Radio 5Live mantra?

'The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum - even encourage the more critical and dissident views. That gives people the sense that there's free thinking going on, while all the time the presuppositions of the system are being reinforced by the limits put on the range of the debate.'
Noam Chomsky 


The more I listen to 5Live the more I realise that fevered debate is allowed but only within certain prescribed limits, outside of those limits the amount of debate is strictly controlled and contrary views openly attacked. If you can bear it take a listen to Victoria Derbyshire or Nicky Campbell's phone-ins and see if I am right.




Thanks to Biased BBC for reminding me of that Noam Chomsky quotation.