danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I don't know what their policy on repeat attendance is. But I don't imagine it's uncommon. Same as I answer absolutely every YouGov survey I'm sent.
Dumping the BBC?
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Nonsense
So don't bother then?
mauvais
on reddit or something
No, the opposite. It does count.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Touché.However, if I was criticising QT (which isn’t really current affairs, but entertainment), I’d focus on other areas of its artifice than the make up of the audience.
For a large % of our idiot country it is seen as THE WORD on politics in the same way as the Daily Mail or the Times. These are still the main media influencing voters and they should not be let to run riot.
However, if I was criticising QT (which isn’t really current affairs, but entertainment), I’d focus on other areas of its artifice than the make up of the audience.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
Don't get me wrong: BBC current affairs is absolutely biased. It’s been a member of the CBI since at least right through the 80s. Including during the miners’ strike, when they reversed the Orgreave footage “by accident” and had CBI spokespeople on as if ‘impartial experts’.
But they deliberately make sure the audience of QT has supporters of each party. The audience isn’t supposed to be randomly plucked from the street. It’s supposed to be weighted.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
tell us more about this.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Some woman came to this house, you don't have to let them in. They're self-employed usually so no point being a dick.
I said "Come on then" ...hustled her into the living room, showed her there was no box and the tv was only connected to the ps4, the blu-ray and the sound system.
On her way out she said they might contact me again in a couple of years and I said "post only, thanks". Now I get a letter every 2 years or so, no bother.
Fez909
toilet expert
They politely ask that you don't apply to be on again if you've been on in the previous 10 years. To "give other people a chance".
It's not enforced/checked, clearly.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
I cancelled my licence years ago and I just get an email every two years - never had a visit.
It was just because I never watched telly though. I just found that I'd not even turned it on in a year because I didn't want to watch anything that was on. It wasn't a protest, and I don't think it _would_ be an effective protest against any idea of BBC political bias tbh - it's completely non-specific, it doesn't even just affect the BBC but all broadcast tv, and any manifesto you write about it isn't going to be paid attention to. If you want to complain about BBC coverage there are many other ways to do it.
It was just because I never watched telly though. I just found that I'd not even turned it on in a year because I didn't want to watch anything that was on. It wasn't a protest, and I don't think it _would_ be an effective protest against any idea of BBC political bias tbh - it's completely non-specific, it doesn't even just affect the BBC but all broadcast tv, and any manifesto you write about it isn't going to be paid attention to. If you want to complain about BBC coverage there are many other ways to do it.
Fez909
toilet expert
I haven't had a license for years and have had a visit. I filled in a form online saying I don't watch TV and a fella came around. I said I don't watch TV and he said, "sound" and that was that. Didn't even want to come in.
I think he said he might pop around in a few years. I've since moved so no idea if he did.
I think he said he might pop around in a few years. I've since moved so no idea if he did.
polly
Well-Known Member
I think the outrage about BBC bias comes from a place of sadness that what was once a pretty evenhanded state broadcaster has become an apparently shameless establishment mouthpiece. As opposed to Sky or whatever who have always been trash. I mean I know about Orgreave - it's never been radical - but it's demonstrably and consistently worse now. Which is a real shame.
mauvais
on reddit or something
I did this once (not whilst working there). The guy said, 'can I come in?', I said 'sure', and he said, 'oh OK, I don't need to, just wanted to see if you'd let me', then fucked off.
Fez909
toilet expert
I think this is almost exactly what happened to me. I didn't even have my telly plugged in at the time so was pretty relaxed about the whole thing, and it probably showed, which meant no checks needed etc.
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
All complaints about the bbc have to go through the bbc on multiple levels, and they get to decide if it goes further. Good luck finding anything from ofcom.
geminisnake
a complex mass of conflicting ideas
You can cancel online and renew the cancellation online, did this about 4 yrs ago, they only ever email me, not letters, no one at the door. If they do come to the door they have zero rights, tell them to go away if you do answer it.
Fez909
toilet expert
TBH if I didn't get a half price one, I'd bin the BBC off. Won't claim that's necessarily about politics Their oxbridge stuffed presentership, they're establishment bias does agrovate. The purported reasoning behind editing Johnson's performances is fucking disgraceful and not a little ironic.
mauvais
on reddit or something
Years later.
magneze
🎧
Nothing immediate. It is just killing itself slowly though with this stuff. When a government proposes stopping the license fee, perhaps no-one really cares any more.
Scaggs
following seagulls
Did it tonight online. Been wanting to do it for ages but my wife agreed at last.
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