This week the BBC used a flagship programme, Money Box, to spread fear over using Bitcoin. All of the phone in guests seem suspicious, the studio guests were all anti Bitcoin and the host, Louise Cooper, is ex Goldman Sachs.
Perhaps worth a listen even just to see the extent the BBC would go to to downplay the significance of cryptocurrencies.
Money Box Live: Bitcoin and digital currencies:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09gzjhy
"Louise Cooper started her career at Goldman Sachs as a stockbroker, advising some of the biggest fund managers in the world on their shareholdings. And then going from one extreme to the other became a business journalist, reporting and presenting at BBC World Service Radio for almost a decade."
Guests:
Frances Coppola "In a past life I worked for banks...now I write about them, and about finance and economics generally. I'm an alumnus of Cass Business School, where I did an MBA with a specialism in finance and risk management. I spent 17 years working for various banks, from large to small, retail and investment banks"
Marc Warne, Founder, Bittylicious.
Matthew Newton, Crypto Researcher, eToro
Professor Alan Woodward, Cybersecurity & cybercrime specialist, University of Surrey.
I'd like to say that it was the worst case of biased BBC journalismm that I had ever heard but... it wasn't. It's like this every day with the BBC.
Mark Mace Smith - Artist - Poet - Journalist