The BBC exists at the behest of the government and always has done. At any point the government could cancel the license fee and the BBC would cease to exist in its current form over night.
> The BBC is, and always has been, independent
good ol’ independent superman sunak and commie corbyn
The deep and historic ties with MI6, selective foreign language broadcasting & enormous sway on public discourse in GB suggest it’s as billed, a state media outlet.
I think a lot of (mainly younger) people on here don’t understand that the BBC has always been slightly pro government whether that government is Tory or Labour. They are part of ‘the establishment’. They’re not so much biased towards a party just slightly subservient to whoever is in power as ultimately they have to not piss them off
People of a certain age will think they’re always pro Tory just because that’s all they have seen in recent years but the exact same arguments were made 20 years ago the other way round when Tony was doing his warmongering.
IMO it’s an accurate label as the level of funding the BBC gets is set by the government regardless of the mechanism for actually delivering it.
The government also appoints the chair of the BBC and while it is pretty neutral I do think it is starting to swing to the right these days …
The government: We do not fund the BBC.
Me: Then can I unsubscribe from it please?
The government: …no
People object to paying it, that however doesn’t mean shit
I’m just glad I’ve never paid it. 17 years of having my own place and 17 years I’ve never given a penny to that Children abusing cover up corporation
They don’t like being identified as what they are, which is to say, they’re just Britain’s equivalent to Russia’s RT news. State controlled media. ~98% of the media is controlled and it shows. Of the remaining outlets most of them get all their news from the same press associations that feed the controlled corporate outlets, i.e. the press associations are also controlled. There isn’t much in the way of trustworthy news once you filter out the cranky news from the tiny drop in the ocean that isn’t controlled.
It would be better to demonstrate in practice it’s independence on a daily basis, instead of objecting to the obvious
Oh no, the BBC (funded by a government fee) doesn’t like being called government funded. Maybe they can speak to the BBC chair (appointed by the government) to do something
It literally is government funded and operated by the government.
I mean it’s literally government funded because you pay the fee to a government department.
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The BBC exists at the behest of the government and always has done. At any point the government could cancel the license fee and the BBC would cease to exist in its current form over night.
> The BBC is, and always has been, independent
good ol’ independent superman sunak and commie corbyn
The deep and historic ties with MI6, selective foreign language broadcasting & enormous sway on public discourse in GB suggest it’s as billed, a state media outlet.
I think a lot of (mainly younger) people on here don’t understand that the BBC has always been slightly pro government whether that government is Tory or Labour. They are part of ‘the establishment’. They’re not so much biased towards a party just slightly subservient to whoever is in power as ultimately they have to not piss them off
People of a certain age will think they’re always pro Tory just because that’s all they have seen in recent years but the exact same arguments were made 20 years ago the other way round when Tony was doing his warmongering.
IMO it’s an accurate label as the level of funding the BBC gets is set by the government regardless of the mechanism for actually delivering it.
The government also appoints the chair of the BBC and while it is pretty neutral I do think it is starting to swing to the right these days …
The government: We do not fund the BBC.
Me: Then can I unsubscribe from it please?
The government: …no
People object to paying it, that however doesn’t mean shit
I’m just glad I’ve never paid it. 17 years of having my own place and 17 years I’ve never given a penny to that Children abusing cover up corporation
They don’t like being identified as what they are, which is to say, they’re just Britain’s equivalent to Russia’s RT news. State controlled media. ~98% of the media is controlled and it shows. Of the remaining outlets most of them get all their news from the same press associations that feed the controlled corporate outlets, i.e. the press associations are also controlled. There isn’t much in the way of trustworthy news once you filter out the cranky news from the tiny drop in the ocean that isn’t controlled.
It would be better to demonstrate in practice it’s independence on a daily basis, instead of objecting to the obvious
Oh no, the BBC (funded by a government fee) doesn’t like being called government funded. Maybe they can speak to the BBC chair (appointed by the government) to do something
It literally is government funded and operated by the government.
I mean it’s literally government funded because you pay the fee to a government department.
I don’t see the government website having a similar page for Netflix – https://www.gov.uk/tv-licence
Well, I suppose they could argue it’s director only bribed Boris Johnson specifically, not the government, for his position.
Twitter also called itself titter for the LOLs im guessing it should not be taken seriously as a source of information