"The BBC's activities and ambitions are chilling"

[payndz201]

Regarding Mock The Week, I stopped watching it some time ago - partly because I don't like some of the regular panelists, and partly because the whole thing comes across as mean-spirited and childishly 'shocking', as in "Ooh, let's see who can say the most outrageous and nasty thing about [Person X]!" It's like a downmarket Have I Got News For You performed by sarcastic, snickering teenage boys who think they're oh-so-clever.

 

[Davros]

Than complaining to who? His speech was at a TV festival, not a complaint to the regulators. And no, what detracts from his argument is the fact that no one has managed to do it in any other country, even where the BBC isn't the "state sponsored media" and even without the BBC there would still be a thousand other sources for news on the internet that are free.

Actually, enough players in the online news market have managed it, the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times only being the most prominent examples.

Paid-for-news can succeed, in markets where there is a scarcity of `free' competitors.

Who would be dumb enough to pay?

 

[stoneroses]

The BBC is a great thing no what anybody says, including my boss.