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Unelected, undemocratic, entitled through historical theft, murder etc.
I'll pay for the less self interested, more accountable BBC. Deal?
There's a reason why all these interesting documentaries about bands that we all love are on BBC and not on Netflix. Same reason why all the good quality educational TV is on cbeebies and not on ITV. Same reason John Peel was on the beeb. Same reason Gaelic and Welsh language programming isn't on Sky. Or why I can listen to coverage of lower league Scottish football live on iplayer but not on commercial radio. It's not commercially viable, but that doesn't make it not worthwhile.
You can tell the kind of people who can only conceive of value in monetary terms because they're often the same people who complain that our national broadcaster doesn't provide any.
Honestly, anyone complaining about the BBC should be forced to go and watch Spanish or Italian or even US broadcasting for a month just to see exactly what they're asking for. I'm honestly astounded that so many of us are so short sighted as to be prepared to throw all that away for 45p a week or whatever it costs.
General taxation... be nice about the government or bye-bye funding. The strategy that the tories are using now, but worse.
Advertising... make programmes advertisers like, nothing edgy "our focus group shows our core buyers are elderly and white so we'd like more racism please..."
Subscription... how many people watched? Not enough, you're axed chum, "sorry Sir David you didn't grow our subscriber count, does it look like we give a fuck, my children can afford boats..."
If anyone else talks about the BBC or anyone else being "woke" because people have suddenly realised the entire country isn't elderly white misogynist bigots, a d we are going through a bit of a correction, they can officially shove it and go watch love thy neighbour on YouTube (yes, it's on there)...
You are mistaken. A Deloitte study in 2011 on the economic impact of the BBC showed that for every £1 spent on the license fee, the UK economy gained £2 in revenue. That's significant money and the only reason for killing the BBC is ideological.
I suspect a lot of this Tory posturing against the BBC is mostly just trying to keep Murdoch on side. If he keeps the Murdoch press on his side then he keeps a lot of the media consuming public also on his side. Clearly the media would have known about these "work events" before now, they tell us these things when they want us to know them and to suit their own aims. One little suggestion from Murdoch of a good way to deflect the attention away from the parties issue and bam, who'd have thought it
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Britain was and is desperately hanging onto the last threads of a status of a "soft power superpower" our cultural reach, our diplomacy, the commonwealth, and even, yes, goodwill hanging over from WW2, made us on some measures second only to the USA in global influence.
Part of the underpinning of this is organisations that are beacons to the world, like the NHS and the BBC - especially the Beeb as our shows are consumed globally, they are world leaders in engineering standards, and they supply the world service, everywhere, for free.
The current desire to kill it all in service of the "free market", firstly with Brexit, then the "hostile environment", the widespread destruction of our grass roots arts venues, the destruction of local arts funding, creative projects, and now a genuine attempt to wipe out the BBC.
There is a hardcore of people in the UK, independently wealthy Conservatives, the billionaires who own the papers, and the zealots, who want Britain to be a paradise of the free market, low regulation, low employment protections, free to be as greedy as they like. Britain becomes a shit version of America.
All that is stopping it is that the Tories know they owe their majority almost entirely to the "red wall" seats which mysteriously, through a mixture of Corbyn-hatred and a desire for Brexit, suddenly turned blue. The people in these seats want to see the North regenerated, investment in the NHS and public services, and curbs on the rich. Boris has been smart enough to see this and presided over some fairly lefty economic policies... will Rishi Sunak, Liz Truss etc. be as wise?
I've not had one for the best part of ~10 years now, I've been solely watching on-demand content for that long, and nothing from iPlayer since they amended the t&c's to cover that too (~'14?)
just realised, can I give myself a big
off for a lie down, see you in a month
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
That is: the people who are forced to fund it don't get to say who runs it. Instead the gift of the chairman's job is in the Prime minister's hands, when the Beeb is supposed to be independent from government.
I think if they can't square that circle, then basically it's gone.
There is definitely an issue with the ability of the government to bully the BBC though, agree there.
Unfortunately the knock on effects of budget cuts are being felt already, I've heard from some people I know who sell to the BBC that at BBC news the cuts have been brutal.
I think when the Daily Mail trumpet that the "Fat cats at the BBC" have had their budgets slashed. People don't always realise what that means. The BBC don't make profits and what they pay people is governed largely by what staff could get by moving to ITV, or Sky so it basically means programming gets cut so you get less content, or less high budget content and more "homes under the hammer" cheap crap.
Whilst it is true that traditionally a Liberal minded metropolitan elite has predominated, I find the fact that both the DG and Chairman are members or ex members of the Conservative party somewhat disturbing.
I also deeply resent the fact that as an involuntary funder of the BBC, this mysterious(even to BBC staff) 'board' get to choose who runs it, instead of me and the many others who pay the licence fee.