Savile being used as a wedge issue to attack BBC independence
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Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
The BBC deserve the same treatment Murdoch got due to hacking over this.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
what, a long drawn out process with a good chance of nothing much changing at the end of it?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Out out damn spot! Cillit Bang and the dirt is gone!
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
damn'd spot
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
Elizabethan grammarian.
revol68
what, fucking what?
Considering the BBC's shameless toadying of the governments austerity measures in the past few years I'm surprised that anyone can buy into the notion that they are a cut above the rest of the media scum?
As much as I love some of it's programming, none of it comes close to making up for it's fundamental role as the governments mouthpiece.
As much as I love some of it's programming, none of it comes close to making up for it's fundamental role as the governments mouthpiece.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
the other channels are mouthpieces for vested interests also. ITV news is like Fox but not quite as shit. In fairness they gave UC's a good cunting the other day, seemed 'off message' for them. We know the beeb is an insualr echo chamber for privilege and rah rah but at least it doesn't ruin a films dramatic tension by sticking the news on three quaters of the way through.
every cloud
every cloud
revol68
what, fucking what?
Who watches films on tv anymore, I'll tell you, the most lumpen rump of the proletariat, cowards who bow and scrape like servile parochial peasants under the whip of their tv scheduler overlords. The most advanced elements of the class expropriate their digital media, the real movement that abolishes the present state of things.
Garek
Living n ADDled chaos
I got that muddled and though we thought we were about to debate the merits of Channel 5.
goldenecitrone
post tenebras lux
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marty21
One on one? You're crazy.
every government complains about the BBC - the Tories hate it - claim it is pro-Labour - then during Labour's reign - we had the sexed up dossiers/hutton enquiry - which ended up going their way - Dyke resigned - that doesn't seem to have been good enough for the Tories
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
there was other stuff before the leveson relating tophone hacking- the questions by mps including then culture and media sec lousie mensch (iirc) and another round of questionings.
levensons was the big guns
levensons was the big guns
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
These are not the same sort of inquiry in any way or sense. One is done by the govt with a range of powers (effectively that of the house) one is an internal inquiry with no power.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Why answer if you don't know?
That makes sense. I was really confused for a moment there.
I've been getting that vibe quite a bit myself as well, I'm sure plenty of others have too ...
This nails it in an instant - And let's have it right, who's gonna say owt about the "money with menaces" letters the beeb routinely send out to license "evaders". Fuckin hell, you ever had to see a bird get fuckin time (even if it is just days) for tv licence evasion? BBC a socialist institution- You've gotta be messin?
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
This genius always made me laugh- before I moved into halls at 23 I was inna hostel. Every cunt had a tele and you can imagine what their adherence to the license fee was. No letters, no akward visiting licensing bods, nada.
two days into the first term EVERY SINGLE ROOM at the halls was hit with a red lettered ominous 'pay or be fucked' notice.
they certainly know where to target revenue collection.
see also jon snow and the hilarious 'PAY' adverts ;if your child is going to university he will need a license' etc
as bad as moira stewart hiding under the stairs ready to pounce about the tax return
Undoubtedly mate, but this is what really sticks in mine - Ages ago the beeb license men blagged a lady I know, they asked at her door what programmes do you watch? Then after she'd furnished them with that info, whipped out his arrest warrant - She ended up doing a short amount of time for that. Undoubtedly one could make a case that she shouldn't have been so daft to fall for it, but no way should a woman who's just too daft to see the alternatives be made to do time.
BBC we hate you for that.
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