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 Teddy Eagle  12 Jul 23 7.41pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
You cannot seriously compare the BBC with either Netflix or Amazon Prime. No you can't. People pay for them voluntarily as opposed to under threat of prosecution.
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| Teddy Eagle 12 Jul 23 7.45pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
No, different because in one the presenter admitted the inappropriate behaviour. The BBC reported his admission and the consequences. In the other nothing other than assertions had been made that were under investigation. That was reported as has been the recent statement. The BBC have been consistent, even if those who dislike them choose not to see it. The BBC have not “allowed” anything at all. They no more own the private lives of their employees than any other employer. They have a complaints procedure which doubtless will be reviewed again after this episode. Is the contention that no one at the BBC knew what Savile, Hall, etc, were up to?
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Wisbech Eagle  Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 7.47pm |
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Originally posted by Badger11
Just because you don't want to it doesn't mean we all feel the same. The BBC is simply an entertainment and news broadcaster no matter how they like to dress it up. No they aren’t. They are very much more than that. They are the window that the world views us through and a much envied source of truthful and objective reporting. We would be much diminished as a country if the BBC was reduced to the level you, and others, seem to regard them.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 8.00pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
Is the contention that no one at the BBC knew what Savile, Hall, etc, were up to? I don’t know, anymore than anyone does, on who knew what and when. There has been loads of speculation and I don’t doubt people must have realised later that the behaviour they recall now seems dodgy. I never met Savile but I bought a house from somebody who knew him well and whose daughter spent a lot of time in Stoke Mandeville Hospital. The stories she told me then now seem very creepy but at the time he was a national hero, raising funds for the hospital, working as a porter and getting us all to clunk-click. He duped everyone. I am much less informed about Hall but unless someone had made a complaint about Savile what were the BBC supposed to do back then? Today it would be different.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 8.02pm |
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Originally posted by Part Time James
When people say "we don't want the BBC to follow a subscription model because the content is so good we'd hate to see it falter" they are only destroying their own argument. If the content is good a subscription model would succeed. If the content is bad it wouldn't be missed if it didn't succeed. It isn’t, and never has been, the argument.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 8.08pm |
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Originally posted by Teddy Eagle
No you can't. People pay for them voluntarily as opposed to under threat of prosecution. You pay to watch live TV. Avoid that and you can avoid the licence fee. Up to you. I think you would be much poorer but you can do it. The BBC will continue. It will be paid for by us in some way. Better not via taxation, which allows political pressure to be mounted.
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| nobody sussex 12 Jul 23 8.08pm |
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He hasn't committed any crime but his actions are un acceptable. Now 61 he can be retired on ill health grounds and disappear up his own valley and live quietly. we can then as a country get back to trying to dig up some dirt on
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eagleman13  On The Road To Hell & Alicante 12 Jul 23 8.10pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
No they aren’t. They are very much more than that. They are the window that the world views us through and a much envied source of truthful and objective reporting. We would be much diminished as a country if the BBC was reduced to the level you, and others, seem to regard them. You actually seriously believe that don't you? You seriously must live in some cloud cuckoo land if that's the case, i pity you. Still, at least you're down somewhere far away not to bother us.
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| Part Time James 12 Jul 23 8.10pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
It isn’t, and never has been, the argument. No, I am saying people have made that argument. It is, and has been, the argument. Edited by Part Time James (12 Jul 2023 8.16pm) Edited by Part Time James (12 Jul 2023 8.17pm)
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 8.14pm |
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Originally posted by Spiderman
The issues didn’t stop him working right up until last week. Neither did they stop him partying at a recent award ceremony. Complete coward by getting his wife to make the statement, she should be working on taking him for all she can get. This is the full statement from his wife. Are you suggesting she is lying? I didn’t know he has a history of depression. Did you?
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| Teddy Eagle 12 Jul 23 8.15pm |
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Originally posted by Wisbech Eagle
You pay to watch live TV. Avoid that and you can avoid the licence fee. Up to you. I think you would be much poorer but you can do it. The BBC will continue. It will be paid for by us in some way. Better not via taxation, which allows political pressure to be mounted. Poorer for not spending Christmas night watching EastEnders, Strictly Come Dancing and a 50 year old episode of Dad's Army? I think I'll cope.
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| Wisbech Eagle Truro Cornwall 12 Jul 23 8.16pm |
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Originally posted by Part Time James
No, I am saying people have made that argument. It, it, and, has, been, the, argument. Anyone who does is misrepresenting the actual reasoning.
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