I concur, but you're wasting your breath. The BBC has all the failings of any large institution, but we are better with it than not with it. Radios 3, 4, 6 Music, BBC 4, the World Service and a mass of local radio would not exist if it were not this public service. The World Service, in particular, is the envy of the world and respected everywhere it is not jammed.

Trouble is, the right of the Tory party hates it and fill the right wing press with negative stories about it which their readers consume like milky tea. Just look at some of the waffle peddled on here.

For instance, one poster up the thread attacked the BBC for not broadcasting the U21 Euros. He conveniently forgot that ITV, Sky, BT and Ch4 (until the final) were also not hosting it. He mentioned that they were, however, showing the women's Ashes based on some mythical woke agenda. Again, conflating issues since (as I think I have said at least 3 times on THIS thread) inclusivity etc. is a statutory requirement imposed on both the BBC and Ch 4 under the Equality Act through a derived regulation brought in by...the Tories!!

And it's not just here. Remember the withdrawal of the free license for pensioners? This was indirectly imposed by the Tories through fund cutting. The BBC did not want to do it and softened the impact by ensuring those pensioners who were actually poor did not pay (remember, pensioners disposable incomes passed those of the waged many years ago). Yet this did not stop pension groups campaigning, not outside Parliament or the local Tory office, but outside the BBC. Hook, line, sinker.

Unlike most of the print press, and much of the broadcast media, the BBC does not recite the Tory message and [gulp] often criticizes them directly. The affrontery! Thatcher hated the fact that it constantly called her policies to account. Surely a function of the Fourth Estate? And again, the attack of bias is rubbish. After a brief honeymoon with Blair the knives were out. Byers, for instance, was practically hounded by them out the door; and let's not mention WMD...

That said, the issues on funding, falling numbers and relevance are very important issues and the B.B.C. does face these existential issues as it constantly debates on Radio 4. However, that people conned into believing this right wing anti BBC agenda then construct arguments based on any event to justify that stance says more about them than it does about the BBC.

It isn’t semantics at all. It’s fact. There is no evidence to support what you claim despite it being a popular idea. The truth is that no action was taken because the seriousness of the behaviour wasn’t either understood or known. Some individuals had noticed things but dismissed them in the cultural climate of the time.

I don’t know how old you were when Savile was at his peak but my children grew up watching TOTP and Jim’ll Fix It. He was regarded as odd, but a hero.

John Lydon outed Saville in 1978 and was banned from the BBC

I concur, but you're wasting your breath. The BBC has all the failings of any large institution, but we are better with it than not with it. Radios 3, 4, 6 Music, BBC 4, the World Service and a mass of local radio would not exist if it were not this public service. The World Service, in particular, is the envy of the world and respected everywhere it is not jammed.

Trouble is, the right of the Tory party hates it and fill the right wing press with negative stories about it which their readers consume like milky tea. Just look at some of the waffle peddled on here.

For instance, one poster up the thread attacked the BBC for not broadcasting the U21 Euros. He conveniently forgot that ITV, Sky, BT and Ch4 (until the final) were also not hosting it. He mentioned that they were, however, showing the women's Ashes based on some mythical woke agenda. Again, conflating issues since (as I think I have said at least 3 times on THIS thread) inclusivity etc. is a statutory requirement imposed on both the BBC and Ch 4 under the Equality Act through a derived regulation brought in by...the Tories!!

And it's not just here. Remember the withdrawal of the free license for pensioners? This was indirectly imposed by the Tories through fund cutting. The BBC did not want to do it and softened the impact by ensuring those pensioners who were actually poor did not pay (remember, pensioners disposable incomes passed those of the waged many years ago). Yet this did not stop pension groups campaigning, not outside Parliament or the local Tory office, but outside the BBC. Hook, line, sinker.

Unlike most of the print press, and much of the broadcast media, the BBC does not recite the Tory message and [gulp] often criticizes them directly. The affrontery! Thatcher hated the fact that it constantly called her policies to account. Surely a function of the Fourth Estate? And again, the attack of bias is rubbish. After a brief honeymoon with Blair the knives were out. Byers, for instance, was practically hounded by them out the door; and let's not mention WMD...

That said, the issues on funding, falling numbers and relevance are very important issues and the B.B.C. does face these existential issues as it constantly debates on Radio 4. However, that people conned into believing this right wing anti BBC agenda then construct arguments based on any event to justify that stance says more about them than it does about the BBC.

Yes he did.

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No he didn't.

He claimed he was banned from the BBC for saying he wanted to kill him along with lots of others.