"The BBC's activities and ambitions are chilling"
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No, but it's practically the only show that I watch on the beeb anyway. I agree that standards have been slipping of late, and that unsuitable material may have slipped south of the watershed. But ever since David Kelly, the BBC has been in knee-jerk mode. It's high time it grew a pair and told the government where to stick it. That'd be good. The beeb striking against the government. Mind your own business, or we'll switch the transmissions off. Or that they'll hire Gerry Adams dub guy to voiceover all the Party Political Broadcasts next election.
They're losing viewers as it is. The next time they show an 15 rated movie past watershed, and the swearing is dubbed or bleeped out, people will be switching to DVDs so fast that it would make your head spin.
No, because that would be editorially justified by the show, its content and the timeslot.
In the consultation I said that bleeped words are annoying, people usually know what they are anyway and draw more attention to the word than it would otherwise have. I doubt it will be people like me who they will listen to though.
They won't because that isn't what the guidelines say. They said it may be some circumstances where timeslot or editorial justification doesn't suit it and it may be bleeped. Not that it will be their policy to bleep all swearing.
Well the Tories have finally admited they're going to fuck up the BBC if the win the election.
I always love all the promises that all the parties state will happen if they get into power, its always all good stuff like free this and do away with this tax measure and that tax, but 99% are forgotten once in power.
"Out of touch" means not fawning at the feet of the Tory PR people, of course. This is same as the Tory Euro MP who went on US TV to call the NHS a '50 year mistake'. It will lose them another few parts of a percentage of votes. I bet those very PR people are cursing Jeremy [rhymes with] as we speak.
Well Labour were calling them "Out of touch" a while back, because they were saying people would rather have a £5 cut than have the money top sliced.
I think what "out of touch" means is "they won't let us have our way".
I think you may be confused. Labour want to use the underspend of funds earmarked for helping people with switch over costs to pay for other projects, and keep the extra £5 on the licence fee to continue funding them. The BBC Trust said that 2/3 of people had said they would prefer to have the money back in the form of a licence fee price freeze or cut. And for that the government say the Trust are "out of touch."
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I seriously think that no matter who gets in, in the longer term, the BBC are fucked because the government(who ever they are) want to please big business and don't really like the fact the BBC criticise them while being paid for by a Royal Charter that they approve.
cultcross agrees.
There are some things a British government can't walk away from. Screwing with the NHS is one, screwing with the BBC is another. I have a feeling on a local level, hosepipe bans are a third.
looking at the Royal Mail, any government interference, (even more so when its for the reason of "cost cutting" ) is bad for something like the BBC, Royal Mail & the NHS.
I actually do not believe you should "cut costs" in public service as it rather misses the point.
for example, you could take the council run hotline to report broken street lamps and cut it down from 10am to 4pm, on the grounds that will save money only having to pay someone for those 6 hours, missing the point that people have lives and need to be able to report the fault when it suits them, which is what public service is about in my book.
As for the private company who will weeks later get around to fixing it, that is another story.
I actually do not believe you should "cut costs" in public service as it rather misses the point.
for example, you could take the council run hotline to report broken street lamps and cut it down from 10am to 4pm, on the grounds that will save money only having to pay someone for those 6 hours, missing the point that people have lives and need to be able to report the fault when it suits them, which is what public service is about in my book.
As for the private company who will weeks later get around to fixing it, that is another story.
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you mean 10am to 4Pm surely?
yes that is what I meant.
And the horrible reality is that this SHOULD make me determined to keep the Tories out at all costs... and then I remember what Ben Bradshaw's saying about the Beeb, and realize New Labour is just as bad.
As has been said about so many things - can't they both lose?
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