[Gllug] BBC looking for campaigners

[Mike Brodbelt]

On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 16:43, Doug Winter wrote:
> On Mon 28 Jul Formi wrote:
> >  I still fail to see why it still happens in this country, being so
> >  democratic... And I shall not start mentioning things like "Fake Academy"
> >  and some bloke on the morning program of BBC London Radio.
> 
> It's because most people like it and are happy to pay £100 pa for it,
> Formi.  If most people hated it, I'm sure the Government would be happy
> to ditch it.

I used to really dislike it, then I saw what some other countries got in
the way of public broadcasting, and revised my opinions. Funding the BBC
via a form of taxation isn't ideal, I'll admit, but of all the taxes I
pay it's one of the ones I resent least. The BBC at least make good
programmes with the license fee. I wish the government made as good a
use of the funding they get from income tax. Maybe we'd get an NHS that
worked then.

Mike.


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