Dumping the BBC?

[elbows]

PM's 'Whitehall revolution' after election win

And another article based on the same:

Ministers 'reviewing licence fee evasion sanction'

The government will consider whether failure to pay the TV licence fee should cease to be a criminal offence, a Treasury minister has said.

Rishi Sunak confirmed Prime Minister Boris Johnson has ordered a review of the sanction for non-payment of the £154.50 charge, which funds the BBC.

Prosecution for non-payment of the fee can currently end in a court appearance and potential fine of up to £1,000.

But the BBC warned decriminalisation could cost it £200m a year.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

PM's 'Whitehall revolution' after election win

Katie Price lost her house?????

 

[cupid_stunt]

Katie Price lost her house?????

C4U

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Have to say that I didn't notice any great vermin shortage on Today this morning.

 

[D'wards]

BBC News - BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

There will be cuts to Radio 5 Live and BBC Two’s Newsnight as part of an £80m savings drive.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[magneze]

Was watching a BBC panto on iplayer (not my choice). Why does the BBC need to do panto? There loads of panto. Seemed a bit of an odd thing.

 

[ska invita]

BBC News - BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

There will be cuts to Radio 5 Live and BBC Two’s Newsnight as part of an £80m savings drive.

www.bbc.co.uk

all the cut announcements that have caught my ear have been related to news programming....i wonder what the reasoning of that has been.

 

[D'wards]

Why do they need to save money?

 

[magneze]

Why do they need to save money?

To pay Widow Twanky?

 

[mauvais]

Why do they need to save money?

Primarily the fucked up licence fee settlement that resulted in them paying for licences/losing licence fee revenue from certain pensioners.

 

[Hollis]

Too bad. Completely disagree with this. News and current affairs should be at the core of what BBC does. Anyone these days can make drama series, or screen sports and pay dumb pundits to spout crap about it. (End of. )

 

[Puddy_Tat]

all the cut announcements that have caught my ear have been related to news programming....i wonder what the reasoning of that has been.

maybe they have worked out that it doesn't need many staff just to recycle whatever tory party hq puts out?

 

[mauvais]

A joy to see some numpty deciding to quote Julia Hartley Brewer and Paul Mason in that article by the way. That's probably the kind of digital journalism we're going to see more of.

 

[MrSki]

BBC News has been lacking in news for a while. I doubt they could bounce back from their last election coverage and claim to be unbiased. The bollocks about Corbyn and anti-semitism yet not questioning the racism in the tory party is unforgivable. They should have started ever broadcast with.... 'Today's lies from the government are'

 

[mx wcfc]

Why do they need to save money?

Possibly to pay compensation to all the women who they've discriminated against wage wise?

 

[Hollis]

The bollocks about Corbyn and anti-semitism yet not questioning the racism in the tory party is unforgivable. They should have started ever broadcast with.... 'Today's lies from the government are'

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c1n985jw6z6t/islamophobia

 

[MrSki]

The thing is the BBC has fucked itself. Previously the left would have stood up for it but that is past. Programmes like QT & Andrew Marr have had a sickly bias for too long.

They do good nature programmes though.

 

[mauvais]

The thing is the BBC has fucked itself. Previously the left would have stood up for it but that is past.

I don't think this is really true. However, two more important factors:

- the public opinions specifically around news output have damaged the popularity of the rest of the BBC

- the BBC has sought to humour/placate/whatever the establishment at its own expense, and to noone's surprise but its own it has very much not been rewarded.

 

[Badgers]

BBC News - BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

BBC News to close 450 posts as part of £80m savings drive

There will be cuts to Radio 5 Live and BBC Two’s Newsnight as part of an £80m savings drive.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

 

[Badgers]

No doubt the media are covering this well.

Shame they are not covering the real hurt that the cuts in this country are causing eh?

Fuck em

 

[DexterTCN]

 

[Marty1]

The frustration of the BBC’s left wing London bubble bias continues to be exposed.

 

[existentialist]

The frustration of the BBC’s left wing London bubble bias continues to be exposed.

And you wonder why you get shit here ?

 

[MrSki]

The frustration of the BBC’s left wing London bubble bias continues to be exposed.

If you think the Guardian is a left wing paper then it shows how daft you are as well as being a boring little cunt.

 

[Badgers]

Tonight on Newsnight here's Nigel Farage to share his opinions about Coronavirus...

 

[Pickman's model]

Tonight on Newsnight here's Nigel Farage to share his opinions about Coronavirus...

i'd like it better if they gave nf coronavirus, locked him in a cage by london's city hall, and made him replicate david blaine's famous fast: and then interviewed him

 

[Pickman's model]

If you think the Guardian is a left wing paper then it shows how daft you are as well as being a boring little cunt.

it's wicked to mock the afflicted

 

[kabbes]

Tonight on Newsnight here's Nigel Farage to share his opinions about Coronavirus...

I remarked on that last night too. The BBC are sooooooo in love with Farage. Is there any subject they won’t bring him on to give his uninformed reckons about?

 

[DexterTCN]

Tonight on Newsnight here's Nigel Farage to share his opinions about Coronavirus...

What?

WTAF are they doing bringing that racist, nasty twat on to discuss a medical issue?

What the fuck are they doing having him on for any reason, in fact. Fuck sake.

Anyway I'm not paying for it, apart from a brief dalliance with Bang Claes I've had nothing to do with them,

 

[D'wards]

Is he basically saying that as the viewers are old men we'll cancel it? The BBC don't help themselves at times do they?

Victoria Derbyshire viewers 'more male and older than you think', says Tony Hall

Outgoing BBC director general defends axing of Derbyshire’s show in latest round of cuts

www.theguardian.com