Generally, privatisation is a dirty word to me, and I am a heavy consumer of the BBC. On paper, I should want it to stay. I think Corbyn's brilliant, I read the Guardian; you get the picture...
However, I've started to think the BBC is an extremely dangerous thing to have. It is anything but impartial. The influence of the government (and secret service allies) in its stance is enormous (and largely unspoken), as acknowledged by its former director general. No news outlet is impartial, but the dangerous thing about the BBC is that we sort of think it is. We trust it. It's nice and cosy - surely this old, fuzzy institution we've had all our lives, full of good old posh Brits, wouldn't lie to us? Yet it does, constantly. The David Kelly debacle was the tip of the iceberg.
It deludes us. We need to get rid of its status as a default, and of the image of kind impartiality it uses. For this reason, I think it should go private to match the status of other news outlets, which we are much more ready to acknowledge as liars and benders of the truth. The BBC leaves us as a population incredibly vulnerable to spin and manipulation.
AIBU?