The interviewer from the BBC had an agenda, as opposed to getting news from the Ambassador to the UK. None of this is surprising as the BBC has long had a reputation of being anti-semitic. I can imagine her in May 1940: Well Mr. Prime Minister you have said we shall never surrender, but how will this impact the civilians of the Reich and the countries the Nazis occupy?
If you have a shortwave service broadcasting to abused populations abroad (or whatever the technologically updated version of that is), you have a publishing house which produces and distributes government publications, and you have a communications office in various departments and agencies, you have all the government media you are justified in having. The main body of the BBC, the CBC, PBS, NPR, &c are all properly shut down. Auction off their plant and equipment, give severance to their hourly employees and salaried staff employees, and put the salaried line employees out on the curb with Glad bags filled with their office gew gaws.
What I find so distasteful is the interviewer’s tone, which you also find in NPR etc. It is a tone of superiority and patronization. A tone that always seems to be saying “oh you pathetic idiot, you simpleton, can’t you see that you really must agree with me? Oh, I guess maybe someday. We’ll keep educating you until you do.”
All due credit to the Ambassador she held her own and refused to be drawn into the interviewers narrative (and ignorance).
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