BBC licence fee

Rascal said:
I have been blocked on twitter by the #DEFUNDTHEBBC mob

I only asked who funded them about 500 times, they refused to answer.

They have a CEO who has also blocked me and a PR agent who also blocked me.

Who pays for a twitter campaign to have a CEO and employ a PR agency? I fucking wonder.

I researched into them and surprise surprise they have links to Tufton Street and a number of pro free market think tanks, its not a general public campaign, its funded by corporate interests who want to get their greedy mitts on yet another great British institution. The daft cunts on twitter who made all the fuss about not singing some songs at the Proms all support this corporate takeover attempt. How fucking stupid are the UK public.
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I don't think anybody is surprised that there might be links to 'pro free market think tanks' or people who are ideologically opposed to the state owning businesses. At the same time though, there's a lot of people involved in the movement who don't share that ideology but nevertheless feel that the BBC's funding model is outdated or unfair and/or the BBC is no longer the right organisation to promote British culture or do a better job at reporting the news than any private organisation.
 
Fame Monster said:
I don't think anybody is surprised that there might be links to 'pro free market think tanks' or people who are ideologically opposed to the state owning businesses. At the same time though, there's a lot of people involved in the movement who don't share that ideology but nevertheless feel that the BBC's funding model is outdated or unfair and/or the BBC is no longer the right organisation to promote British culture or do a better job at reporting the news than any private organisation.
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Without their litany of anti BBC propaganda probably funded by corporate interests there would be no movement.
 
Rascal said:
That's your examples

hahahahahhahahahahahahaha. Clutching at straws that.

A few quotes from ex-employees mean an organisation is biased.

Surprise surprise its now joined with the mysteriously funded DEFUNDTHEBBC corporate backed organisation, rabid free marketeers hell bent on taking a national treasure into private ownership because it smells profit. None of these people are anti BBC, they are pro making profit from an organisation that all of us pay for. Capitalism strikes again and they will use every propaganda tool available to them to pull the wool over your eyes.
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The National Treasure was what the BBC used to be regarded as, it's not now.
The reason this movement is growing is bugger all to do with any lurking purported organisations, they have been presenting news as the presenter frames it, the left wing bias is clear to all. I know you dispute this, as any such bias is never acknowledged by its left wing supporters, but we know about them, and ideological discussions and viewpoints are not the issue.
This is also nothing to do with anyone persuading or influencing these people's decisions to scrap their licences, they've been made from what they're seeing and hearing. Then, there is the anachronism of the fee itself, when TV first started, nobody, or very few, had a problem with the new national broadcaster, it was tv's pioneer, and it was the only one we had, it presented the news, it provided entertaining programmes. Now, those days are gone, people choose hundreds of alternatives very easily, and choose, or not, to pay and watch what they want, and are seriously riled at being forced to pay for live TV that contains commercials, in order to view anything but recorded content.
I'm not for scrapping it at all, graduated charges could be introduced, so folk can pick and choose, but a mandatory, blanket charge, well it's looking like it will be decriminalised. If and when that happens, the love for the BBC will be there in stark black and white, (excuse pun), if millions want it left as it is, they've got no worries have they?
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Emily Maitliss.
Lewis Goodall.
Late night 'Comedy'
This was a study from a few years ago...
biasedbbc.org

In Their Own Words

When people ask for evidence of an institutional Left-wing bias at the BBC, this is the place to go for evidence. Out of the mouths of Beeboids…. The BBC is “a publicly-funded urban org…
biasedbbc.org biasedbbc.org

There are more examples.
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Some right wing thinkers at the BBC
Laura Kuenssberg : current politic editor known for being right of centre.
Robbie Gibb : Editor of BBC political programmes, appointed by Theresa May
Andrew Neil : Presenter of political shows, chairman of the holding company that owns the Telegraph and Spectator magazine and previously worked for the Conservative research department.
Craig Oliver : The head of the BBC at the time of David Cameron was so left wing he was snapped up by no other than Cameron himself to be his Director of communications.
Gotto Hari : Political correspondent at the BBC, appointed by no other than Boris Johnson to head his media team when Mayor of London.
there are more examples.
On comedy shows, I'm not even going there that's just ridiculous. Its not the BBC's fault that no one that's funny has right wing views that are funny. I remember Mary Whitehouse she had right wing views on nudity, she got plenty of exposure(no pun intended) on the BBC, she was so popular she got her own porn mag Whitehouse.
Feel free to name a few right wing comedians who have never starred on the BBC or any other network like sky or itv ?.
 
BolinCell said:
Some right wing thinkers at the BBC
Laura Kuenssberg : current politic editor known for being right of centre.
Robbie Gibb : Editor of BBC political programmes, appointed by Theresa May
Andrew Neil : Presenter of political shows, chairman of the holding company that owns the Telegraph and Spectator magazine and previously worked for the Conservative research department.
Craig Oliver : The head of the BBC at the time of David Cameron was so left wing he was snapped up by no other than Cameron himself to be his Director of communications.
Gotto Hari : Political correspondent at the BBC, appointed by no other than Boris Johnson to head his media team when Mayor of London.
there are more examples.
On comedy shows, I'm not even going there that's just ridiculous. Its not the BBC's fault that no one that's funny has right wing views that are funny. I remember Mary Whitehouse she had right wing views on nudity, she got plenty of exposure(no pun intended) on the BBC, she was so popular she got her own porn mag Whitehouse.
Feel free to name a few right wing comedians who have never starred on the BBC or any other network like sky or itv ?.
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I could give another detailed response, with more examples, but this particular point has been discussed, you have your opinions, fair enough.
As I said, if decriminalisation happens, and I think it will in a couple of years,
if the will of the populace is to continue paying £157 is there, like you presume, then it will carry on as normal, will it not?
Nobody seems willing to address this, as they know, as do you, I suspect, that that particular scenario is far from guaranteed, in fact, the exact opposite will happen imo, hence the battle to keep the fee at all costs.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
I could give another detailed response, with more examples, but this particular point has been discussed, you have your opinions, fair enough.
As I said, if decriminalisation happens, and I think it will in a couple of years,
if the will of the populace is to continue paying £157 is there, like you presume, then it will carry on as normal, will it not?
Nobody seems willing to address this, as they know, as do you, I suspect, that that particular scenario is far from guaranteed, in fact, the exact opposite will happen imo, hence the battle to keep the fee at all costs.
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AC do you realise the licence fee applies to all live TV regardless of what company or channel show it.

If you watch City v Grimsby live on SKY you have to have a TV licence.
 
Anyone else have an Operation Yewtree sweepstake on the go in their local pub? I had Geoffrey from Rainbow.
 
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