The BBC is no longer worth saving.
I've always been a strong advocate for it in the past, believing that a publicly funded broadcaster was a good and necessary counterweight to the press barons on Fleet Street, but it's become abundantly clear that the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.
It's like "regulatory capture" but for the news media. The BBC is so infested at every level with former or aspiring SPADs, political advisers, press officers, communications directors, etc that it is, more than ever, simply another mouthpiece for government propaganda.
This was true in the past of course, the BBC has always kowtowed to the establishment, but it now does so with gusto and relish rather than weary resignation.
Scrap the BBC, scrap the license fee. It's unsustainable and unjustifiable to force people to pay for propaganda designed to make their lives worse.
I've always been a strong advocate for it in the past, believing that a publicly funded broadcaster was a good and necessary counterweight to the press barons on Fleet Street, but it's become abundantly clear that the BBC is no longer fit for purpose.
It's like "regulatory capture" but for the news media. The BBC is so infested at every level with former or aspiring SPADs, political advisers, press officers, communications directors, etc that it is, more than ever, simply another mouthpiece for government propaganda.
This was true in the past of course, the BBC has always kowtowed to the establishment, but it now does so with gusto and relish rather than weary resignation.
Scrap the BBC, scrap the license fee. It's unsustainable and unjustifiable to force people to pay for propaganda designed to make their lives worse.