KingBingo Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) I do agree the BBC is slightly left leaning, Slightly? Slightly? http://www.housepricecrash.co.uk/forum/sty...e_types/gif.gif Edited September 25, 2009 by KingBingo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Cameron is a private sector media man, and he wants to privatise the commercially-oriented parts of the BBC. To me that includes Radios 1,2,5. Well for my part, he can keep headline grabing hands of them. Tories are good at doing away with things that benefit the general pubic and once the're gone you never get them back. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Well for my part, he can keep headline grabing hands of them.Tories are good at doing away with things that benefit the general pubic and once the're gone you never get them back. so how does that relate to radios 1,2,5 again ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 so how does that relate to radios 1,2,5 again ? You just brought to my mind Wedges and the thin end of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 You just brought to my mind Wedges and the thin end of them. yeah, hopefully they'll sell off the whole lot and get rid of the silly license fee. OK keep the world service and maybe news24, but a big fat wedge sounds like a great way to do it, given 3 or 4 years. bring it on, eh! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 yeah, hopefully they'll sell off the whole lot and get rid of the silly license fee. OK keep the world service and maybe news24, but a big fat wedge sounds like a great way to do it, given 3 or 4 years. bring it on, eh! So keep the ones you like. Not every begrudges the licence. I know the BBC act like asses sometimes, but commercial wall to wall. No thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Not every begrudges the licence. ...but everyone has to pay for it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 Victoria from Brighton was very good though. I had a ticket like that Tigs, but it was Brighton to Victoria Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 ...but everyone has to pay for it Yeah true Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) Yeah true but it isn't a public service, so what's the point in that then? (it possibly was 40 yrs ago, but now ain't then) Edited September 25, 2009 by Si1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogbrush Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 The licence fee is even more absurd when you think clearly about what it actually is. It is NOT a licence to watch BBC. It is a licence to be authorised by the government to own a receiving device for radio waves, irrespective of what you tune it to listen to. You cannot own a device for the purpose of listening to an independent broadcaster without paying a fee to the government for the privilige of it. Arguably a price system when BBC was the only broadcaster, utterly absurd now. As a free man a wish to possess a receiving device and look at broadcasts from independent people, some of whom I have paid money to for the right to watch their stuff. Quite where the Hell the government comes into this baffles me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rain'ard Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 but it isn't a public service, so what's the point in that then?(it possibly was 40 yrs ago, but now ain't then) I think it's value has been more in the past as you say. But BBC 4 BBC2 Television do come up with some inovative and quality production, but this of course is not beyond commercial providers, if only they would more. I would hate to lose Radio 4 and The world service by whoever. Thanks for the 15 minute arguement Si1. Happy veiwing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Si1 Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 The licence fee is even more absurd when you think clearly about what it actually is.It is NOT a licence to watch BBC. It is a licence to be authorised by the government to own a receiving device for radio waves, irrespective of what you tune it to listen to. You cannot own a device for the purpose of listening to an independent broadcaster without paying a fee to the government for the privilige of it. Arguably a price system when BBC was the only broadcaster, utterly absurd now. As a free man a wish to possess a receiving device and look at broadcasts from independent people, some of whom I have paid money to for the right to watch their stuff. Quite where the Hell the government comes into this baffles me. well, playing devil's advocate, if there IS a case for a public broadcasting organisation (and I don't think there is, but bear with me) , then the license fee is quite a nice way of ring-fencing the money. If the BBC were simply paid out of general taxation then they'd even be less accountable Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
codeine Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 The BBC airs very little of value these days. All I see on their channels is either biased news, PC "celebrating Islamic culture" programmes, property shows, and depressing melodramatic soap operas. Cut the BBC in half. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bogbrush Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 (edited) well, playing devil's advocate, if there IS a case for a public broadcasting organisation (and I don't think there is, but bear with me) , then the license fee is quite a nice way of ring-fencing the money. If the BBC were simply paid out of general taxation then they'd even be less accountable That's one Hell of a big "if"! Fact is that it means Britain is one of the few places in the World where unauthorised possession of a radio wave receiving device carries huge penalties, regardless of the use. Put like that it is unacceptable in a "free" country. Edited September 25, 2009 by bogbrush Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
@contradevian Posted September 25, 2009 Share Posted September 25, 2009 However the BBC head political correspondent Nick Robinson is as Tory as you can get You obviously didn't see his piece on Gordon Brown last night on the 10pm news. I thought I'd stumbled onto a Labour Party Election Broadcast. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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