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| Subject: Auntie is not what she was. | |
Author: Ed Harris (Venezia) | [ Next Thread |
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] Date Posted: 00:56:15 11/20/04 Sat In reply to: Roberdin 's message, "Better than having crappy adverts on TV!" on 23:58:21 11/19/04 Fri Who can deny that the BBC's progamming is the best in the world? I certainly don't. Apart from BBC news' manifest inclinations to present the Tories as madmen and not even efficient madmen at that, to imply that invading Iraq was akin to Germany invading Poland, and their implicit suggestion that Tony Blair is a real-life Flash Gordon (who will save every one of us), I have no argument with Auntie. Except... ...The propaganda campaign by the BBC to get people to pay the license is getting more like Big Brother than anything real. "We have a list of everyone without a TV license. Just so you know" emblazoned across London omnibuses, for example. And the vans with satellite dishes and the inordinate fines (£1000? for watching Father Ted without a license? That's about the price of a good suit, for heaven's sake!)... it's a bit authoritarian for my liking. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Author: David (Australia) [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 02:16:04 11/20/04 Sat It is interesting that you refer to the BBC as "Auntie" - the same name is given to the ABC here is Australia. The BBC is an institution that you should all be proud of, particulary the BBC World Service. It is far better than our ABC. I regulary listen to the BBC World Service on the radio here and get much of my news from the BBC Website. I also enjoy listening to a few other BBC radio programmes every now and again via the internet. The quality of the ABC is far better than the commercial networks in Australia, however it is well behind the BBC. I wish the Australian government would increase its funding at a faster rate. We should be looking to the BBC as a model. It does seem slightly strange to charge a licence fee for the BBC though, you would think it would be much more efficient to pay for the BBC directly out of people's taxes, as is done in Australia. I realise there are some issues with bias (similar to the ABC here) but it would be sad to see the BBC scaled down or privitised. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |