BBC.. time to call it a day ?

[Shudahaddogs]

How much can one corporation get wrong before we all say enough?

I'd love to defund the BBC. I don't think we should be legally compelled to fund an institution that:

A) we don't all consume (even if we watch other terrestrial channels we are forced legally to pay for the BBC)
B) is politically biased
C) has had too much controversy surrounding their staff

When institutions are publicly funded they are held to different standards than other companies and the BBC continues to fall short. The concept of a public service broadcaster is now outdated, we are no longer relying on the BBC and a couple of other outlets.

I really can’t fucking stand this, when something terrible happens and people pop out of the woodwork to say they saw it coming

But how is its quality unparalleled? Because you want it to be/perceive it as being so?

These are just the usual unsubstantiated arguments, trotted out without any concrete examples of how the BBC can continue to justify its licence paying scam.

You don't have to pay for a licence.

@Chocolatefrogs I actually think it I'd ssying the opposite - apparently Edwards was very good at hiding the truth about who he was and what he was doing. So the idea that the BBC is to blame for that doesn't really seem fair to me. Like blaming a woman for unknowingly marrying a serial killer.

I’m not blaming the BBC at all in my post. I think the headline and sub-headline of the article make it seem as if the writer is now saying that it was obvious Huw Edwards would turn out to be a sex offender/padeophile.

The article title says ‘Am I surprised about Huw Edwards? Looking back, I shouldn’t be’ and the sub-headline says ‘… it’s now clear he lived a life of anxious concealment’. To me, that suggests the writer is saying it wasn’t that surprising that Huw Edwards has now been found out as a sex offender/paedophile.

The article is interesting and insightful, but I find the writer’s tone a bit superior and irritating.

Are we though?

I feel incredibly lucky to have Netflix... providing a constant stream of excellent programming that's totally worth the subscription fee I may for it.

What's lucky about having to pay a licence fee for a channel I barely watch that has completely lost its way?

Wow, what a leap to make in your comparison there - like ‘blaming a woman for unknowingly marrying a serial killer’. That’s an odd comparison.

I worked at the BBC during the Greg Dyke era, it was a very different place then. It’s going through a bad patch, largely due to Tory interference, airlifting one of their own in as DG.
It is still the envy of the world for all its faults.
Mark my words, you would bloody miss it if it went, could never be recreated. It badly needs reform but absolutely needs to stay.

The BBC is excellent, world service and educational output especially.

They couldn’t sack him when he hadn’t been charged with anything, he would have sued.

Yes I perceive it to be so, just as others do not.

Yes, I feel we are lucky. You don’t have to feel the same.

They didn't need to give him a pay rise though!

Hardly anybody watches those channels though do they?

I objected to paying the license fee when I lived in the UK, as I seldom watched live TV, but having since emigrated I've come to see its importance.

Absolutely. The people moaning are probably the same ones who voted to leave the EU. No doubt Trump and Farage supporters who believe all the anti establishment schtick. We all know how that turned out 😂

Netflix ? Half of it is ex BBC programming.

I honestly think we need a much slimmed down corporation.

No political skew and no overpaid mugs like Linneker.

I don't watch any BBC TV.

I’d go for this

Last paid a TV licence in 2020, no regrets not viewing TV all this time. We don't miss it at all. TV licence tries to convince us to come back - not happening!

I paused my Netflix for 3 months as there was nothing to watch, I just reinstated it at £10.99 and unfortunately there's still nothing to watch, I'm surprised you think its excellent, it's probably the worst and most expensive of the streamers unless you get the crappy ad version which is cheap but bad. BBC doesn't have ads which I have noticed have been getting longer and longer on the other channels so I have paid to go ad free where I can which makes the streamers quite expensive.

Anon the DG gives off awful toxic vibes. The moment he tried to scrap cbbc he showed his true colours.

If you're going to ditch the BBC because someone trained too hard and was bullied in an ultra competitive field you'd have ban all professional sports, the Olympics, probably most theatre, TV, film etc

I'm not suggesting bullying is good, just that it is endemic across many aspects of life and particularly in elite activities. It's not limited to the BBC.

You also pay for your broadband rental. £15 to £20 pcm?

Your license fee also pays for all the terrestrial broadcasting infrastructure used by all TV and Radio stations.