Really.
Why else do you think it has a specific tax required to support it?
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Posted on 10/18/2009 8:46:38 PM PDT by Steelfish
19 October 2009
Tories Could 'Rip Up' BBC Charter
Mr Hunt said he had not decided the timing of changes to BBC governance A Conservative government could "rip up" the BBC's royal charter, the shadow culture secretary has suggested.
The current royal charter allowing the BBC's licence fee expires in 2015. But Jeremy Hunt told the Financial Times that the corporation was "out of touch with the hard times the rest of the electorate is going through". He said the BBC's structure had "failed", adding that Tories in power would have a "very fundamental root-and-branch discussion with the BBC".
Cheerleader and regulator Mr Hunt said he had not made any decisions about the timing of any changes to the BBC's governance. But he said he would replace the current BBC Trust which he said acted as both cheerleader and regulator.
"We are looking into whether it would be appropriate to rip up the charter in the middle of it, or whether one should wait," he added. Mr Hunt said the Tories would scrap plans in the government's digital Britain bill for a 50p-a-month tax on all telephone lines to help pay for superfast broadband access across the UK.
He would also end proposals to require the BBC to share around £130m from the licence fee with other broadcasters. Mr Hunt added that he wanted to improve the market for commercial TV in the UK by deregulation, rather than by spending taxpayers' money. He said he wanted to ensure that the BBC's dominance did not stifle the commercial sector.
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Really.
Why else do you think it has a specific tax required to support it?
from what I have seen of the bbc and its programming, it has a great deal of the blame for brainwashing the population over the past decades.
The same applies to our media. TV media has simply enormous power to frame the debate in the minds of average tax serfs.
The media creates the perception. In our current societies, perception defines reality. This is how the mass media influences elections according to their own agenda.
Why don’t they cut through the fluff and offer to completely privatize British TV? Let the BBC compete with commercial networks without any government subsidy. And in the process, end the onerous TV tax.
INDEED.
DREADFULLY TRAITOROUS BUNCH of stooges.
The TV tax is “onerous” only because its up-front, visible, and the BBC is accountable for how they spend it.
It’s the taxes that you don’t notice and that no-one answers for that you should really be worrying about.
But the important point is that it doesn’t HAVE to be like that. It wasn’t in the past. The fault is not the system, but how the system has (and is) being applied.
The charter defined the BBC’s role as being to “inform, educate, and entertain”. The “informing” has been infiltrated by leftist propogandists, and when calls have been made for “balance”, the BBC has responded by being equally critical of everyone. The committment to educate has been emasculated by accusations of “elitism” (whatever the hell THAT is) which has meant that the Beeb has had to compete with the independent channels on who can make the most mindless mass-produced pap. It’s lowest possible common denominator TV, you know, the stuff that the USA has been suffering from for the last fifty years, where theres 200 channels and still nothing worth watching.
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