by George Galloway
Part 3 - Money controversies
But the biggest existential threat to the once iron-clad hegemony of the BBC will not be dispatched as easily as was Mr. Corbyn. Money.
Not just the money extorted from the taxpayer to pay for the ever-bloating BBC empire in an era when Netflix, Amazon, Sky and so many more are both demonstrating that other financial models are available and have become for millions of British families an additional expense on top of the once sufficient BBC.
I am not alone in currently paying the BBC licence fee whilst virtually never watching it. And I live in hope that my wife will never discover just what Sky Sports, BT Sports, Manchester United TV, Netflix and Amazon are costing us!
But the recent money controversies have revealed the taxpayer is being forced to pay second-rate entertainers and ‘personalities’, many of whom earn literally millions, are scarcely wanted, were never endorsed by the public, and who in any sane system should be working in the commercial sector. That some of the highest paid have been unmasked as paedophiles, sexual harassers, rapists and all round reprobates has damaged the BBC quite possibly beyond repair.
A state broadcaster which pretends it isn’t, duplicating hundreds of services already being provided by commercial broadcasters, paid for by the crudest of poll-taxes, where hooks and crooks and comic singers coin wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, has no place in the 21st century. For the BBC, there’s nobody left to lie to.
***
Part 3 - Money controversies
But the biggest existential threat to the once iron-clad hegemony of the BBC will not be dispatched as easily as was Mr. Corbyn. Money.
Not just the money extorted from the taxpayer to pay for the ever-bloating BBC empire in an era when Netflix, Amazon, Sky and so many more are both demonstrating that other financial models are available and have become for millions of British families an additional expense on top of the once sufficient BBC.
I am not alone in currently paying the BBC licence fee whilst virtually never watching it. And I live in hope that my wife will never discover just what Sky Sports, BT Sports, Manchester United TV, Netflix and Amazon are costing us!
But the recent money controversies have revealed the taxpayer is being forced to pay second-rate entertainers and ‘personalities’, many of whom earn literally millions, are scarcely wanted, were never endorsed by the public, and who in any sane system should be working in the commercial sector. That some of the highest paid have been unmasked as paedophiles, sexual harassers, rapists and all round reprobates has damaged the BBC quite possibly beyond repair.
A state broadcaster which pretends it isn’t, duplicating hundreds of services already being provided by commercial broadcasters, paid for by the crudest of poll-taxes, where hooks and crooks and comic singers coin wealth beyond the dreams of avarice, has no place in the 21st century. For the BBC, there’s nobody left to lie to.
***
Source:
Comments
Post a Comment