On 2009-06-07 17:14:31 +0100, "Dave Liquorice"
said:

On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 12:56:40 +0200, Martin wrote:

The BBC are supposed to inform, educate and entertain.

Agreed, that is what public service broadcasting should do and note the
order of those things. It now appears to be entertain, inform and educate.

Public non commercial broadcasting would be funded from the
infrastructure budget as it is in for example the Netherlands.

Heaven forbid that should ever happen here. The licence fee is not ideal
but at least it keeps the government of the day at arms length. I really
doubt that even the vesitages of impartiality that still exist within the
BBC would survive long if the goverment had direct control of the purse
strings.

Agree 100%.
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