Daily mail vs the BBC and the licence fee?

Question

I have been reading article after article on the Daily Mail website about the BBC and the licence fee.
Have the reporter at the Daily Mail and its readers not considered that if the licence fee and the BBC became an independent broadcaster the readers of the Daily Mail and their readership will not have the right to complain about BBC programming output.
the recent furore about Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand making lewd phone calls to the actor Andrew Sachs should have blown over weeks ago but the Daily Mails relentless witch-hunt of the BBC hasn't stopped. Have the Daily Mail not stopped to consider that if BBC were to become an indedependent broadcaster then the Mail and readership will not have to right to complain about who the corporation employs or what the programming output is on either radio or tv. I have always liked Jonathan Ross and always watched Friday Night with Jonathan Ross friday night are just not the same with JR.
I will admit in the past I have argued against the licence fee and thought it should be abolished but I have changed my mind I think the BBC makes some really good shows which is sold all over the world for instance Worst Week of my Life has been remade on US TV as Worst Week and so has Life on Mars and several other shows. If the BBC was an independent broadcaster BBC would have commercials on their channel between programmes probably and I don't we would have same high quality programmes we're used to as we have right now on the BBC. Personally I am sick of the Daily Mail relentlessness witch hunt of the BBC and all who work there if you don't like a show or programme(s) if you find the content(s) offensive then don't watch thats why we have different tv channels to watch and we don't have to watch tv we can always turn the tv off and read a book or listen to some music or go on the internet we all have choices.

Answer 1

It's the Daily Mail, venting ill-formed opinions is what they always do. They're just anti-BBC because it's state-governed and so, in their simplistic Tory view, a Bad Thing. Stop polluting your mind and read a proper newspaper instead.

Answer 2

First.I wouldn't read that trash.But on the subject of the BBC.We are supposed to live in a democracy(i know it's hard to believe)As a democracy

no company should dictate that we have to pay money to watch television.

For the past 2 years other tv companies have had to make cut backs to

save money.The BBC continues to send large amounts of people to a

country where BBC already have staff covering news sport etc.Waste of

money.The amount of money they spend on staff taxis alone is waste.If staff

for safety are not on public transport by a certain time they get a taxi.Would

you rather get public transport before 11 or wait to go at one minute past

so you can get a taxi.Why should our licence fee pay for everyone else around the world to watch and listen for free.What programs are worth

watching?All Jonathan Ross makes a point of on his show is the size of

his dick.Which any man will tell you.Only a prick talks about it.Brown with

Bliar and after alone sells of all our assets.If he didn't need the biased BBC

to help the Statzi Nazi Labour cause to put lying spin across to the public.He would have sold it by now.

Answer 3

Of course they will have the right to complain. Do you think ITV and Channel 4 never get complaints e.g telephone scandals. Otherwise going by that thinking then they could release any propaganda they like (which they sometimes do anyway). Have people never heard of http://www.ofcom.org.uk



And the BBC has not made many high quality TV programs since the 80s and 90s so the program quality will not suffer. It's just that you will not face going to jail for watching or not watching BBC i.e watching a foreign tv program thats been paid for and still risk jail.

Answer 4

as far as i am concerned the licence fee which i can ill afford to pay, is one big rip off, the BBC is a bloated, over manned institution which needs paring down, i mean that they could do with a complete make over and i would most definitely scrap the fee, let the BBC earn its money, if its advertising then so be it. I mean it does it already effectively with all its programmes, then perhaps we will get shot of much of the rubbish they produce.



many BBC staff i am sure feel that they are secure in their positions, like that idiot Jonathan Ross, they pay him 6 million a year for being a ****, so he can go, and then the staff who are on a jolly around the world, why was it necessary to send 470 odd staff to Beijing to cover the Olympics, and then hundreds more in link ups, all paid for by you and i. I deeply resent it, and its political stance doesn't endear it to me either.

Answer 5

If the BBC is soooo great let people decide whether they want it or not...put it to a referendum,



I think 90% of it is rubbish and they're about as politically impartial as Joseph Stalin, but if people want good for them. We live in an age of choice with regard our entertainment. I choose not to read the Daily Mail so Id like the BBC to offer me the courtesy of rejecting them.

Answer 6

Just look at the appalling ITV. Just one look is to answer your question. The Daily Mail is the print equivalent of ITV just as appalling. Don`t it make you proud?

When the BBC gets it right it is still the best in the world.

Answer 7

Could you provide a recent link? I read The Daily Mail today and I must have missed it.

I certainly haven't noticed any campaigns. Anyway, I thought it was the Sun newspaper that brought it to our attention.

But as you say - we all have rights. You don't have to read it, I promise. Simply switch to another newspaper.

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Answer 8

Lovely.

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