38 degrees is feverish.

I understand why we might be unified in wanting a 
BBC news service and some public service 
broadcasting.  I'm not sure it's entirely 
impartial - but it is a useful contribution to the news system.

However at this moment BBC1 is Match of the Day 
Live.  Why is it right that we have to subsidize 
the hugely overbloated money paid to cheating 
ball kickers in a game where the underlying ethos 
seems to have become what can you get away with?

The BBC has provided 10 TV Channels, and regional 
variants for some of those (now starting to rationalize).
It provides multiple radio channels, and an awful 
lot of free online access to people who've never paid a licence fee.

What is the justification for providing 
"entertainment" as opposed to news and education through a licence fee?

Licence Fee Spend

TV      £96.00
Radio   £27.60
Other   £08.76 

Online  £07.32
Lic Col £05.88

I'm open to be persuaded but I think disliking 
the government is no reason to support a 
regressive flat rate burden on millions of people 
who are only a proportion of the entertainment consumers.

Wikipedia can be trusted as much as the BBC in my 
view and it doesn't get any licence or government funding.

BW,

Julian

At 13:22 12/03/2016, Adrian Midgley wrote:
>  n 
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>
>in of course a matter in which the rich and newly engaged owner of
>newspapers has a financial and political interest.
>
>The GMC were they considering a doctor's behaviour might look for a pattern
>of behaviour rather than a single episode, and take it more seriously as an
>indication of irreparable or intolerably misbehaviour.
>
>The parliamentary slightly equivalent body (alas currently missing its
>chairman while certain episodes of behaviour receive folurther
>consideration) appears less effective and diligent.
>
>See detail, survey and stats on public view of BBC below.
>
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