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Originally Posted by Chris
I'm not going to check news readers' salaries. If you're offering them as evidence to back your views, then that's your job. 
As for the rest of it, it's all rather subjective isn't it. I watched Attenborough's latest on BBC1 last night. There was nothing remotely poor about it. |
Not interested in that programme.
See people like me pay for the bbc, so people like you who like the channel get it subsidised.
As make no mistake if the bbc was voluntary subscription I wouldnt sign up.
The fact is most of the programmes on the bbc, in fact the vast majority dont interest me.
Regarding the salaries thats up to you, obviously it suits your argument to conveniantly not bother to check it out. There was also a recent news article about alen hansen getting paid 40k an episode of match of the day.
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Originally Posted by RizzyKing
Bbc in terms of quality is imo no better or worse then many other channels all of them have their gems and their turds always have always will. Chrysalis does have a point on the documentary side of it though in recent years there appears to be a definate agenda going on. I have lost count of how many welfare programs i have seen on the bbc that take a tiny minority of people and represent them as the norm and it is annoying as hell and only helps to enforce this belief that welfare in the UK is being taken for a ride constantly.
As for salaries of top people yes they may be high but there is more then a grain of truth to the "you have to pay for the best" and the people moaning about the salaries of some of the top presenters would also soon be quick to moan about the bbc paying the cost of training many top people who then left if the bbc didn't have competitive salary to keep them they cannot win on that one.
We are all going to have to make savings in our expenditure in the coming years cutting back on things we would rather not thats just how it is now and the bbc should not be immune frrom that.
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There is nothing to say those people really are the best tho, anyone can get better with experience and training, on countdown they sacked both presenters for refusing to take a paycut and the new ones are better than the old ones, so at least channel4 have the balls to do it, and yes I am saying its no better than other channels so I am basically agreeing with you on that. Out of the terrestrial channels, channel 4 is probably my favourite although still not great. Out of all channels ironically is probably sky one and sky atlantic due to american shows.