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Old 08-03-2014, 12:17   #29
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Re: TV licence non payment could be made a civil offence

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Originally Posted by heero_yuy View Post
Comparing the current BBC to schools is quite misleading. If you were to say there should be a special tax that all must pay to run Eton though your children will never go there is a better allegory.

IMO the BBC fails its PSB remit as it just goes for ratings these days and pushes out rubbish designed to appeal to the lowest denominator. Real quality programming is rare and so many other commercial channels do it better.
I'm not saying the BBC is like a school. I'm demonstrating that just because a public service provider also does commercial operations on the side, it does not reclassify the whole operation as "commercial".
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