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Personal life? Cause of death? Nietzsche 2 (talk) 03:32, 24 January 2009 (UTC)Reply

Re Director General section

Latest comment: 4 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

"as Greene was regarded, by the conservative minded" This shouild be replaced as it's biased. It wasn't just the conservative minded but anyone not a 'liberal' left extremist who - if they were interested at all - thought Greene did what the article says. 212.219.249.5 (talk) 18:07, 11 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

I disagree. Only the conservative minded even recognise that the phrase "low moral fibre" has any useful meaning. --El Ingles (talk) 19:48, 11 March 2010 (UTC)Reply

Surely this depends, crucially, on the context of the remarks? 149.34.148.214 (talk) 17:43, 17 July 2024 (UTC)Reply

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Latest comment: 5 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I have removed a lot of it from the article, but will return with properly cited material shortly. Tim riley talk 18:27, 22 March 2019 (UTC)Reply

A Source for the Interesting Quotation from Hugh Greene

Latest comment: 6 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Dear all,

Under the heading 'BBC director-general' on Hugh Greene's wikipedia page, there is the following quotation from him:

"We are going to use this organisation to change the way the rest of the country thinks. We want them to see stuff they don’t like. We don’t really care if they complain."

Insofar as I can see, this quotation does not have a source. I have looked around the internet to try & find a source, but, have been unable to locate one. Can anyone help?

Thanks, Democrat208 (talk) 06:55, 2 May 2024 (UTC)Reply

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