How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit | by Nick Cohen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books

How the BBC Lost the Plot on Brexit | by Nick Cohen | NYR Daily | The New York Review of Books: Much of contemporary politics resembles the brainwashing techniques of religious sects, which discredit sources of information that might contradict the cult’s teachings. Political leaders cannot order their followers to cut off communications with their families and leave their partners if they are not fellow members of the sect, but they have found other ways to imitate L. Ron Hubbard. Their most effective technique is to take a half-truth—that all journalistic choices are ideological to some extent—and use it as a weapon to suppress the full truth.�