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Is The Bbc No Longer Fit For Purpose?
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After repeatedly letting down this once great nation, most recently over the Last Night Of The Proms songs, the left wing BBC omitted to include Labour MP Tom Watson from last night’s documentary on Carl Beech, despite Watson’s scandalous key role in that fiasco. https:/
Should the BBC now be scrapped?
Should the BBC now be scrapped?
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That’s not good enough, Ken. We’re paying for a service that we expect to be impartial. It is not.
08:31 Tue 25th Aug 2020
It seems the answer is definitely YES. https:/
I think Hansurbancer (@ 15.44 Tues) is totally correct. The BBC wastes our money on what I consider to be useless people, starting with the sports programmes. This is because the BBC would rather pay less for fewer highlights of sports programmes but spend the savings on former players who think they know how the current system works in their relevant sport. Money for old rope. People watch sports programmes for the sport, not the useless pundits.
I also think some programmes are a waste of money. There is one being aired at the moment called Reported Missing. I appreciate the concerns of relatives in this situation. It must be dreadful, but I can't see the value of this programme. I know there are many people who go missing for various reasons, occasionally never to be seen again but you just know, when watching this, that the person concerned will be found. I feel the programme should be looking for people who have been missing for longer, but that won't happen because it would involve more expenditure.
I also think some programmes are a waste of money. There is one being aired at the moment called Reported Missing. I appreciate the concerns of relatives in this situation. It must be dreadful, but I can't see the value of this programme. I know there are many people who go missing for various reasons, occasionally never to be seen again but you just know, when watching this, that the person concerned will be found. I feel the programme should be looking for people who have been missing for longer, but that won't happen because it would involve more expenditure.
The following link is almost 5years old but it will make you wonder what extras (in addition to BBC salaries) are the 'celebs' being paid nowadays for 'after dinner speaking'.
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Hans.
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Hans.
In the meantime, despite 65% of the UK thinking it is time to scrap the lie sense fee and 71% thinking that the notion of a fee is outdated, Lord Hall, the outgoing boss of the increasingly out of touch organisation, says that everyone should be paying a tax instead. A universal tax to be collected like your council tax even if you do not own a tv or radio. Deluded or what? Coming soon the Ministry of little transport demands road tax from people who don't own a car.
Like the vast majority of the populace Danny I am now receiving my TV channels through a digital box. It is as easy for them to block their channels to my digibox as it is for all the other subscription content providers who do if I choose not to watch their offerings. They are petrified of this becoming openly suggested as a solution to the non payment of a licence. Payment that can be linked to an address and system. It is another reason why every programme that they put out is constantly flagged up as available by wifi or mobile signal systems. They learned very early to nip in the bud the "I do not have a TV defence" for having no licence. Wicked manipulation that would have made Goebbels proud.
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