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This is what people who have been fed RW lies end up doing.
The Biased Broadcasting Cretins are digging their own grave.
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And he's not very good at that.
You have to feel pity for the RWR especially the UK wing, having seen what's gone on over in the USA. They must all be having one of those head slap - penny drop moments and tearing up their copies of The Daily Wail as we speak.
Poor gullible sods.
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You seem to have plenty of time to post rubbish on here, if you make a claim it should be backed up with credible evidence
There isn't any.
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Could be the start of the 2nd uk
rebellion is on the horizon
If it is so inevitable, why not just sit back and watch it happen?
No need to answer, it's a rhetorical question, because sitting back, means it won't happen and that doesn't suit your narrative.
You feel the need to try and provide some impetus to this so called demise of unbiased broadcasting. If it was happening, or going to happen, it would happen anyway without your assistance.
The fact that you feel the need to promote such ideas as the demise of unbiased broadcasting (or in transam's case: social disorder
) proves that you don't really believe it, but you're trying your hardest to initiate it.That says a lot for your mindset, I fear.
Slam dunk, I'm afraid.
Same ****s who spunk £50+ a month on the latest iPhone, just to mouth - breathe over their FaceAche and ****ter...
Probably think the latter represents good value for money too, yet the BBC doesn't
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If it is so inevitable, why not just sit back and watch it happen?
No need to answer, it's a rhetorical question, because sitting back, means it won't happen and that doesn't suit your narrative.
You feel the need to try and provide some impetus to this so called demise of unbiased broadcasting. If it was happening, or going to happen, it would happen anyway without your assistance.
The fact that you feel the need to promote such ideas as the demise of unbiased broadcasting (or in transam's case: social disorder
That says a lot for your mindset, I fear.
Slam dunk, I'm afraid.
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Unfortunately for those calling to defund the BBC (how I hate these daft carbon copy yank phrases being used) there are more than enough people like myself who'd be happy to make up any funding shortfall through either a license or subscription fee uplift. (I do actually support the notion of moving the Beeb to a subscription model) I guess the down side to that is a potential loss of accountability and impartiality, which those that moan about the BBC bang on about.
I feel the reasoning for interfering with them will be pretty weak really and there are more than a few that think we shouldn't pay a licence fee. There are all sorts. One type for instance is not watching live TV but using iplayer. There would appear to be an increase in people who don't pay who could. The costs for the license are capped at times. Entertainment is not cheap and if rising costs in that area are not adequately covered content suffers. On the other hand people can't really be expected to provide the funding Sky gets. Then look at freeview - lots of cheap TV and there is a lot of it on BBC too and even more on C4.
Figures
Last year, there were about 26.2 million TV licences in use in the UK. About 7% of people who need a licence do not have one
That indicates that indicates that near 2 million don't pay
Not easy to find info on fines but clearly a lot less and costs and facts that are sometime mentioned are incorrect
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/1...osecution-maximum-fine-tv-licence-cost-latest
There has also been talk of decriminalising none payment but licensing would still be compulsory.
Also talk of finding some other way of funding it - Boris during the Brexit campaign. More votes talk or fact? There will be pressure groups and it's not that difficult to manipulate google and some objectors have received media time already. So what do you think will happen? How many will think what a great idea and not pay or press for that. Curious as the BBC in particular is very British and pretty unique really.Bias is easy. Just count the years of right wing power against the left and forget the stick the left got that some probably liked. Politicians are a bit scared of the news in general as it can loose them votes. We get rather a lot of it. Their mouthpiece when they want to use it is the BBC. Totally commercial TV will turn out to be just like the newspapers. Even the presence of the BBC limits how much of that they can get away with - on TV anyway. It also did set a standard. Not so sure about that now but all have money problems. Maybe somewhat better cheap TV. No C4 well if you watch this particular program you will see ladies and gents bits and pieces. Adverts don't return enough and that return is set on viewing figures so titillation and dumbing down for the masses becomes favourite. The BBC has the same problem. Horizon for instance is nothing remotely like it was when they dumbed down the explanations to suit people. Maybe it bored some. This is what the BBC had to do to get another channel - BBC2. They need viewing figures too and get many millions. Signs of ageism now - reckoned to enhance the number of younger people watching.
In some ways Freeview is an ailing industry but remove it and go total pay tv and a lot wont be able to afford it. The BBC can't be run for nothing unless the lot comes out of taxes. License fee increases aren't good for votes. Neither are tax increases.
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Licence needed!
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I would agree with paying a fee to access iPlayer, but it's not available here.
I know this issue has been mentioned before and the discussion resolved
Been a while since I've been on general section. Good to see the usual left/right paradigm/mud slinging.
My older viewpoint would have been to berate the beeb for its lack of impartiality and considerable bias, but that comes with the turf. It's impossible to be totally unbiased, because an organisation is composed of people, and people are composed of all sorts of attidues and perspectives.
There's also been a considerable change in how people consume media, with more people seeming to find the time to commit to watching long-form podcasts about very specific issues (Joe Rogan's 3+hour podcast being a prime example). The beeb no longer enjoys the monopoly it once had because the market for people's attention has considerably widenend. There is more choice, and so people's attentions are spread more widely and more broadly. It's also a very one dimensional experience, you watch what is scheduled. With other forms of media you can easily jump about.
What's resulted from these changes has been a lose of affection and loyalty. Keep in mind anyone can reach a wider audience now with a phone camera and an internet connection. A UK based youtuber pulls more viewers on any given night of the week than the BBC does.. by a comparatively huge margin.
This is not much about biased reporting, polticial affiliation and corruption, it's about the change in media consumption. The BBC are been superseded, becoming defunct. It doesn't serve the purpose it once did not because of its core principles or attitudes but because nobody even watches it!
I also suspect that within its corridors, it knows this, hence why a subscription model is being sidelined for as long as possible.
My older viewpoint would have been to berate the beeb for its lack of impartiality and considerable bias, but that comes with the turf. It's impossible to be totally unbiased, because an organisation is composed of people, and people are composed of all sorts of attidues and perspectives.
There's also been a considerable change in how people consume media, with more people seeming to find the time to commit to watching long-form podcasts about very specific issues (Joe Rogan's 3+hour podcast being a prime example). The beeb no longer enjoys the monopoly it once had because the market for people's attention has considerably widenend. There is more choice, and so people's attentions are spread more widely and more broadly. It's also a very one dimensional experience, you watch what is scheduled. With other forms of media you can easily jump about.
What's resulted from these changes has been a lose of affection and loyalty. Keep in mind anyone can reach a wider audience now with a phone camera and an internet connection. A UK based youtuber pulls more viewers on any given night of the week than the BBC does.. by a comparatively huge margin.
This is not much about biased reporting, polticial affiliation and corruption, it's about the change in media consumption. The BBC are been superseded, becoming defunct. It doesn't serve the purpose it once did not because of its core principles or attitudes but because nobody even watches it!
I also suspect that within its corridors, it knows this, hence why a subscription model is being sidelined for as long as possible.
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