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Originally Posted by Mr K
Poor old Aunty always under atrack from ever side. Politicians have always tried to control/ influence their output. With the best will in the world they are never going to get everything right, given the amount of their output. If we lose a independent public service broadcaster, then all hope is lost for unbiased quality broadcasting. You'd be left with 20 mins of ads an hour on every channel and imported repeated crap, and Farage doing the 'news' he likes.
They should go on strike for a month, withdraw all channels , radio, iplayer, website etc, permission for any other channel to show their output. Lets see how the public like what would be left.
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This argument boils down to a claim that the BBC should be free to behave with limitless incompetence and/or corporate malice because its existence, under any circumstances, is preferable to its non-existence. That is obvious nonsense. I believe in public service broadcasting in principle, but if the BBC is becoming institutionally incapable of delivering it, or even adequately reforming itself so that it can, then it has to go. No organisation has an unqualified right to exist on taxpayer funds.
The thing that has caused me to worry that the BBC may be past the point of no return is the reports of senior editors deferring to identitarian Millennials and Gen-Zs in their newsrooms. If the older, experienced journalists aren’t in charge, and the wide-eyed, idealistic kids are, then they’re in serious trouble.
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Originally Posted by jem
And here we go.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cd9kqz1yyxkt
So Trump's legal team are now threatening to sue the BBC, which basically means all of us as licence payers, for a sum of at least $1 billion.
Now obviously a threat to sue, doesn’t necessarily mean they will, or it will succeed if they tried. But it has made the news! |
As they should. This editorial breach was so egregious, it’s undefendable. They need to make a very generous out-of-court settlement. If it stings the budget, they can make a massive saving by ending their bizarre, super-sized obsession with drag queens. There’s one on just about every show now, it must be costing a fortune.