David Dimbleby in the Sunday Times:
‘We’re coming up to the new BBC charter…that’s the big issue.’
What does he think about that?
‘I’ll tell you…there is an argument for funding things that are outside the BBC so it doesn’t have this all-powerful position. I’m not sure democracy is served by having an organisation so huge and powerful.’
Perhaps he should swap notes with Alistair Campbell who claims(see next post):
And for me, the real evil of narrow concentration of press ownership by a clutch of wealthy right-wing men, most of whom do not pay taxes here, is that it leads to a narrow set of values and interests within the news agenda.
One less Christmas card for Patten’s secretary to send out…..maybe she can send it to likewise ‘under siege’ President Assad.
The 3 or 4 billion pounds that the BBC gets through intimidation and extortion would be better spent on the NHS? Providing some discipline and hygiene is re-instated of course. Not easy of course in a state monopoly run by the unions.
If we have to have a poll tax it is better spent on people’s health not on the Kingdom of Elites at the Labour Party and Climate Change’s Propaganda Centre.
We can do without the BBC. We cannot do without the NHS.
Pouring more money down the NHS black hole without radical reform is playing to the BBC agenda, though.
Be careful though, Dimbleby is one of dozens of Beeboids who are in fact “independent” (ha!). Sounds like he has seen the writing on the wall and wants to make sure he is among the very well rewarded ‘private’ companies that will get juicy chunks of the divided cake.
The BBC is so “impartial” that two of the three journalists on Andrew Neil’s Sunday Politics are from the Guardian. Bias, what bias?
Just who reads the Guardian. Teachers,social workers and BBC editorial teams, thats who. The tail wags the dog in politics, in my humble opinion.
David Dimbleby must have been following Biased BBC, bless him.
He betrayed his roots when he answered the question about George Entwistle pay off, saying, “The pain it’s caused the BBC.”
When question about the pain to the licence fee payer, he grudgingly conceded that too.
Most people would have looked at that and felt disgust that someone could be paid that, whist working for a publicly funded (by force of law) organization.
Yet to those on the inside, we are not even recognized as someone who pays their wages. Incredible !