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Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

scaramanga said:
A subscription model would work. That's where all the best content is coming from.

Absolutely no need to have a tax-funded state broadcaster spouting propaganda on behalf of all the leftists and antisemites.
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What do you think about BBC World Service and website and soft power? The BBC has always been the most effective branch of the Foreign Office. Ensuring most of the planet are culturally aligned and warm to us, as opposed to China or the US
 
scaramanga said:
I don't think sacking the person helping to show the world their dishonesty would be a good look.

It's a bit like when Putin's opponents suddenly want to inspect the outside of their 5th floor windows.
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His huge conflicts of interest aside, I don't think this is a much better look.
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scaramanga said:
So nothing recorded on any Sky channels or anything like that? No live sport ever? I have to admit, that would be incredibly difficult to do.

Either way, that's not how it should work. The BBC shouldn't be able to tax me for watching someone else's content delivered over someone else's distribution system. We should all be free to choose if we want to pay to watch the BBC's propaganda, just like we can starve GB News of it's advertising revenue or refuse to pay for Sky News's content.
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We are.

Are you ok with the concept of On Demand?.

Incredibly difficult ha ha.

If you are a sports lover...of course its difficult, as you want to watch it live.

Btw they're giving you the (their) radio for nowt.
 
scaramanga said:
Turns out they made a similar edit on Newsnight. If the leaks keep dripping slowly enough, the entire senior management team might have to resign.
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Yep - they should absolutely clear out all of Boris Johnson's political appointees and promote a new generation of professional journalists who have cut their teeth in the regions and on radio. Like always happened pre-2010.
 
Gutter Boy said:
What do you think about BBC World Service and website and soft power? The BBC has always been the most effective branch of the Foreign Office. Ensuring most of the planet are culturally aligned and warm to us, as opposed to China or the US
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I'm not sure what planet you're living on, but this one is very much not culturally aligned with us.
 
Gutter Boy said:
What do you think about BBC World Service and website and soft power? The BBC has always been the most effective branch of the Foreign Office. Ensuring most of the planet are culturally aligned and warm to us, as opposed to China or the US
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Yep we get both the six & 10 o'clock news here in Oz I watch at least one of them each day
 
Rorschach said:
His huge conflicts of interest aside, I don't think this is a much better look.
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He's right though. I had to stop listening to it around the time of Brexit and have never been able to return.

He might be against much of the BBC, but that's precisely who should be working to out the problems they keep sweeping under the rug. If you have a friendly face in the role, the problems would never get fixed.

Still, if all the Strictly stuff that hasn't hit the press yet comes out before the charter renewal, this will all be irrelevant. Ad-funded media groups can pretty much say and do what they like.
 
ricky2tricky4city said:
We are.

Are you ok with the concept of On Demand?.

Incredibly difficult ha ha.

If you are a sports lover...of course its difficult, as you want to watch it live.

Btw they're giving you the (their) radio for nowt.
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Not all content gets to on demand and not on all sources. I could probably live without a BBC subscription (not sure the wife could), but the ability to record non-BBC content and watch sport live should not mean paying the BBC to produce content that I don't consume.

Probably a better way to look at it is to imagine there had never been a licence fee. If the govt announced tomorrow that they wanted to introduce a license fee and the BBC people would laugh at how ridiculous the concept is.
 
scaramanga said:
He's right though. I had to stop listening to it around the time of Brexit and have never been able to return.

He might be against much of the BBC, but that's precisely who should be working to out the problems they keep sweeping under the rug. If you have a friendly face in the role, the problems would never get fixed.

Still, if all the Strictly stuff that hasn't hit the press yet comes out before the charter renewal, this will all be irrelevant. Ad-funded media groups can pretty much say and do what they like.
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Honestly, I burst out laughing at that post.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Yep - they should absolutely clear out all of Boris Johnson's political appointees and promote a new generation of professional journalists who have cut their teeth in the regions and on radio. Like always happened pre-2010.
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That would only work if every single employee of the BBC were removed first.

Clearly there's no way any management team is able to reverse the BBC groupthink. Many have tried and failed.
 
scaramanga said:
I'm not sure what planet you're living on, but this one is very much not culturally aligned with us.
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Look into its role in supplying the opposition with independent information that led to Glasnost and the Arab Spring.

So also all the world adopting English as its second language over the past 75 years, rather than French or Spanish. That's BBC World Service as much as it is Hollywood.
 
Gutter Boy said:
Look into its role in supplying the opposition with independent information that led to Glasnost and the Arab Spring.
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Such a shame there's no other methods of long distance communication ;)

Gutter Boy said:
So also all the world adopting English as its second language over the past 75 years, rather than French or Spanish. That's BBC World Service as much as it is Hollywood.
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That would be owning most of the planet for a few centuries that did that.
 
LutonSpurs said:
Collective punishment for genuine claimants because certain tabloids have convinced you they are all lazy scum is the issue. People have slowly been robbed of compassion for anyone who is poor.
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Responsible people think long and hard whether they can afford to have children. I think there are very few people in the world who are 'lazy scum'. However I don't think that anyone should expect others to pay for their own choices (and how many children one has is very much a choice (multiple births excepted).
 
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