You just love trawling through my posts nit-picking to try to find a little mud to throw. It's a real obsession. Don't you have anything useful to do?

The truth here is that I was responding to the suggestion that the licence fee equated to a tax, when it isn't. It's a ring-fenced fee.

That part of the BBC's revenue comes from taxation, via the government, to support the BBC World Service is certainly true, as it that it gets revenue from its commercial businesses.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

Are you saying his salary has risen in the past 17 years? Crikey

Any other points you wish to make?

Edited by Mapletree (18 Jan 2022 11.47pm)

Wisbech.
I am not extreme right as you imply - more just right of centre with a social conscience.
To say that the Beeb is not left liberal is just simply untrue and a fantasy.
I am sure that the far left do think it is biased but the majority of sensible people know the truth.
Give me unbiased reporting and not biased opinion and I would support them.

Edited by The Dolphin (19 Jan 2022 7.29am)

As you can cast your trawl the moment you leave the harbour I fail to see your point. It doesn't mean it's necessarily historical, only that it's nit-picking, trying to find out of context phrases and then making snide remarks.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

I didn't say it was true. All I said was I base my opinions on facts and observation and I reach them myself.

Of course conspiracy theories CAN be true. I have yet to see one that is though. The point is that they are just theories, often very wild and improbable in character. They are not based on fact, but on someone's imagination. That though does stop people accepting them as fact, almost always because of their own bias and prejudice. They want them to be true. Just read Infowars and listen to those who believe it's nonsense to understand that.

The way that some people are completely convinced that the BBC has a left leaning bias is hard evidence of this, just as nothing will convince them they are wrong is evidence of their own bias and prejudice.

For the avoidance of doubt any comments in response to a previous post are directed to its ideas and not at any, or all, posters personally.

What does the BBC stand for today:

Whether the BBC is bias is a circular argument I think it is others don't. So leaving aside that issue what exactly does the BBC stand for.

Most of the BBC's output is now geared to rating and entertainment e.g. reality TV, soaps, drama and cheap TV (makeover of houses / gardens). All of this stuff is available on other channels or streams so why be forced to pay a licence fee for it.

The World Service does a good job but is funded by the government not the Licence so a tick for the Beeb but nothing to do with the Licence fee.

BBC News 24. A 24 hour a day news channel that nobody watches and costs 100ms of pounds. Should be scrapped.

BBC News a highly fragmented dysfunctional service . Multiple BBC crews from different parts of the organisation cover the same news story, ITV had the same issue decades ago and decided to create ITN which was a single organisation which the other parts of ITV and now even some non ITV companies pay. Regardless of bias it is a bloated inefficient service that employs 6000 people. They need to do an ITN.

Children's TV. I don't watch it but I assume the Beeb does a good job with the 2 channels.

National Radio. They are commercial radio channels in all but name nothing that other channels don't do so should be sold off.

Local radio. A joke as their is very little local about them, mainly DJ's doing talks shows about national events or playing music available on other stations. They have actually stifled competition as commercial local radio doesn't really exist because of this. As it is not really local the whole network should be scrapped people may miss their favourite host but they wont miss the local content.

Education. A massive failure of the BBC is to educate. I have said this before the BBC should have a dedicated education channel covering the cradle to the grave. Instead they have dumbed down and scrapped in the name of ratings.

Sport. The BBC should have a dedicated sports channel so when they do cover sports events which is rarely these days they can at least cover it properly, who can forget Playschool whilst Graham Good scored 300. They may not be able to afford football but other sports are available.

Arts. Another failure they should have a dedicated channel like Sky Arts.

Diversity. The BBC now spends hundreds of millions on diversity most of which seems to be on bureaucrats rather than programming.
Completely unnecessary red tape jobs for the boys or is that non gender specific. Diversity is the responsibility of HR and every manager not a separate department. Scrap the dedicated departments.

Diversity 2. In amongst all this largess for diversity one group is completely ignored the BBC's most loyal fan base, pensioners. The DG has even confirmed that the BBC does not have any specific programming for them, how stupid is that piss off your most loyal customers. Talking Pictures is a channel aimed at that group and has been incredibly successful the BBC should take note. They could for example turn BBC 2 from 6am to 6pm as the oldies channel, lets face it nobody watches BBC 2 during the daytime.

Summary
I admit I want the licence fee scrapped an other option would be to reduce it to about £50 and to focus on the stuff that commercial channels don't cover.

As for what the BBC stands for today its a bloated bureaucracy failing to meets its core customer base, I would think Lord Reith would be spinning in his grave.

One more point