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on 27-07-2015 05:00 AM
The BBC Charter is up for renewal next year, and there is discussion about whether the BBC should continue as a taxpayer funded service via the compulsory licence fee. Here is the Government Minister a few days ago introducing in Parliament the points up for public and parliamentary discussion:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W6BuGQqNLvQ
Is the BBC worth the licence fee?
www.community.ebay.co.uk/round-table/Is-BBC-worth-/4312148
My main complaint is that as a taxpayer funded public service it's supposed to be politically independent, but in my opinion it's run by an overpaid trendy lefty champagne socialist media establishment, who have their pet opinions, political and social, to push at public expense:
Prime Minister allegedly threatened to close the BBC:
www.theguardian.com/bbc-prime-minster-threatened-to-close-bbc
Why I think I should run the BBC:
www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/2094078/BBC-Director-General-vacancy
www.dailymail.co.uk/1308215/BBC-biased-admits-massive-lean-left
www.telegraph.co.uk/10158679/bbc-admits-deep-liberal-bias
www.dailymail.co.uk/2080789/bbc-not-so-europhoric-now