Is The Bbc No Longer Fit For Purpose?

[Theblip]

After repeatedly letting down this once great nation, most recently over the Last Night Of The Proms songs, the left wing BBC omitted to include Labour MP Tom Watson from last night’s documentary on Carl Beech, despite Watson’s scandalous key role in that fiasco. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8652661/BBC-edits-Nick-documentary-victims-say-Tom-Watsons-role-scandal-airbrushed.html
Should the BBC now be scrapped?

[Bobbisox1]

I would happily pay to view series like Downton Abbey or Call the Midwife , and The A word, but that's giving me the 'choice '

[pastafreak]

I didn't word my first statement properly...got interrupted.
I'd not pay a fee for individual programs of series as it would almost be guaranteed to be more expensive.

[pastafreak]

Arrrgghh...'or' series.
Damn keyboard keeps rewriting my words. :(

[ichkeria]

Pay per view means the programme is never happened on by accident by those who otherwise would never have seen it.

Netflix etc is all very wll, but it doesn't mean all TV should be like it (heaven forbid) anty more than all TV should probably by like the BBC

[Mamyalynne]

I can't afford box sets but I can afford the TV Licence.

[Ellipsis]

I'd pay the licence fee for the Radio 4 Today programme alone.

Luckily, I don't need to.

[ichkeria]

The Daily Mail article at the link I’m sorry to have to say is a good example also of less than balanced reporting. A sensational headline followed by an impression at the end that one hadn’t had the full story. Just a vague comment from a BBC spokesperson. No explanation as to why they backtracked. Maybe and quite possibly there are sinister reasons for the omission. But without that full “both sides” picture it’s impossible to say.
When I read a BBC report I generally do feel there has been an attempt to get both sides of a story.

[Theland]

Just watching TV news.
Two articles to compare side by side. Incredible.

1) BBC is putting £100m into increasing diversity.

2) Various Hospices in debt, some to the tune of £280,000 as donations dry up and government help has run out.

Am I missing something here? Is this crazy or what?

[ichkeria]

Ah yes that thing where two unrelated stories are put together and a wholly bogus link constructed between them :-)

[Gromit]

Hans,
So ITV are paying him, not the licence fee payers.

[Theland]

So what is more important?
The BBC has money to waste.
Hospices need money.

[ichkeria]

The BBC don’t fund hospices.

I mean really I’m sure I can find a couple of similar stories: A spends money
B needs money
Therefore A is an utter cad.
It’s nonsense

[HansUrbancka]

@Gromit.18,50...You are correct to say that ITV is paying Jeremy Paxman but my point is that the BBC is purchasing the programme from the production company and is, in effect, continuing to employ the Quizz Master.

https://www.express.co.uk/life-style/life/1025423/Jeremy-Paxman-net-worth-University-Challenge

Hans.

[allenlondon]

Your kids called you racist, Theland, didn’t they? “already over subscribed ethnic personnel. ”

Bright kids.

[Gromit]

Hans,
Arch leftie Steve Coogan stars in a film. The BBC buy the rights to screen the the film in the UK.
The BBC are not paying Coogan they are paying the Studio that made it.

[Theland]

Allenlondon, my son objected to my objections of asylum seekers leaving a safe country, France, to come here.
He only concentrated on the stories they told of fleeing conflict?
I am not racist, and I will call it out, even when it is reverse racism, from BAMEs.
So what is your point?

[Mozz71]

//So what is more important?
The BBC has money to waste.
Hospices need money.//

If the BEEB donated to hospices, you and your fellow naysayers would complain (with justification) that they were spending your license fee on charities you may not support.

[Peter Pedant]

oh god
the Beeb want to change Land of Hope
so.....
lets scrap the Beeb
( all the usual suspects on AB) : yes lets!

jesus this has to be AB on a wet night

did someone just say - that is not good enough
how true how true

[Mozz71]

//jesus this has to be AB on a wet night//

Really? It seems par for the course of AB of recent months.

[Theland]

If the dopes in Aunty have £100m to spare, it should be returned, then we can donate.