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Originally Posted by Mad Max
So how do you know it has institutional bias in its news output if you don't watch it Andy?...  |
They've admitted it.
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Originally Posted by harry_hitch
Seriously, you have never watched at least one series of anything in the past? No Generation game? no Big Break? no Top Gear? No Steptoe and Son, no Dad's Army, no Last of The Summer Wine? no Apprentice? no League of Gentlemen? no Alan Partridge? no Question of Sport, no Only Connect, no Mastermind? no FA cup when Palace have played? no Match of the day!?!
How could you have not watched any of the 2012 Olympics? The feel good mood of the country was awesome, thanks mainly to the BBC showing the Olympics FTA.
When was the last full year you went without watching or listening to something on the BBC or which was comissioned by the BBC? 2010? 2011? 2012? 2013? 2014?
I don't watch VIVA, music channels, shopping channels etc. Can I petition VM not to pay for those? No, I have to accept that I have to help spread the cost for the others who do.
Oh, I don't smoke either. I would like the option not to pay for the medical costs attributed to those who do smoke. Where do I go to whinge about my tax concerns in this case? That's right, I can't. I do like a drink now and again, so can my money be put into research for drink related problems? No, that's right, it can't.
The BBC is and always will be a tax, it is as simple as that.
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Yes, I watched the Olympics. But I have multi-channel television with both Of the major sport networks - I would have been able to watch the Olympics regardless of where they were shown. I can honestly say that whilst I've been responsible for paying the licence fee I haven't watched any of the shows you've listed.
You can petition all you like, but you have a choice to subscribe to them or not, so it's not quite the same thing.
I'm not really prepared to respond to an argument that equates serious medical complaints with telly.
The licence fee isn't a tax, but I don't like it - does the fact that you've listed some other things that are wrong mean I have to be quiet about it?
As far as the subject goes then I see this deal as an indication that BT aren't doing quite as well from a viewership and a revenue point of view as they would like and the innovation in this deal is the fact that now more people can watch it and they can earn some money from it.
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In 2006 senior figures admitted a "cultural liberal bias"
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/yes-w...s-7088133.html
In 2010 the DG admitted a "massive bias to the left"
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/bbc-c...s-6509105.html
In 2013 an internal report into impartiality found a "deep liberal bias"
http://www.theguardian.com/media/201...as-immigration
This last report cost £175,000 of our money. The BBC, who commissioned the report and spent our money on it, dismissed it as merely having some "interesting insights".
Just in case anybody wants d me to provide sources for.my earlier post.