Oh, goodness no. TV programmes definitely fit into the same category as sausages and laws. There are immense amounts of unavoidable inefficiency and waste (and will be as long as programmes aren't made by accountants, and if programmes are ever made by accountants, we may as well all just lie down and die because there will be no point in going on living), and the last thing you want is to give them more ammunition.
Actually no, the last thing you want it the license fee scrapped and the BBC funded out of taxation. But the second-to-last is more ammunition.
Always confused by the stereotype of the Tories being anti-BBC. Surely you can't get much more Conservative than Lord Reith?
Heck, I'm the greatest supporter of the BBC you're ever likely to meet (well, the greatest one who isn't actually making his living from them -- bit of a lack of impartiality there, Mitch Benn?) and reading the initial BBC Trust report gave even me pause. Did you know that there are actually BBC producers who say in as many words that they see it as their job to try to make the population more liberal?
Let cameras in to document all that, the confusion, the canned projects, the political undercurrents that lots of the population won't agree with...
Do you really think that bringing all that to light would help? No, no. Keep the lid on and you keep the BBC. Peek underneath and it'll shrivel up and be gone before you know it.
Did you know that there are actually BBC producers who say in as many words that they see it as their job to try to make the population more liberal? Well, their charter is to "inform, educate and entertain", and there's a positive correlation between education and liberal values, so in a sense they're right.
Let cameras in to document all that, the confusion, the canned projects, the political undercurrents that lots of the population won't agree with...
You forgot to list the significant number of employees that range from the utterly useless to the maliciously obstructive, that get shuffled from department to department as it is practically impossible to get rid of them.
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Actually no, the last thing you want it the license fee scrapped and the BBC funded out of taxation. But the second-to-last is more ammunition.
Always confused by the stereotype of the Tories being anti-BBC. Surely you can't get much more Conservative than Lord Reith?
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Let cameras in to document all that, the confusion, the canned projects, the political undercurrents that lots of the population won't agree with...
Do you really think that bringing all that to light would help? No, no. Keep the lid on and you keep the BBC. Peek underneath and it'll shrivel up and be gone before you know it.
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Well, their charter is to "inform, educate and entertain", and there's a positive correlation between education and liberal values, so in a sense they're right.
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You forgot to list the significant number of employees that range from the utterly useless to the maliciously obstructive, that get shuffled from department to department as it is practically impossible to get rid of them.
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