Should the BBC be privatised?

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And the TV licence fee abolished?

Do you think you get valkue for money? Do you watch/listen to/read the bbc?

Does the BBC turn a profit these days? If so, and if it really provides what people want then surely it could survive on it's own like every other media outlet has to?

How many people does it employ? Must be tens of thousands and I bet it's not an efficient organisation. Why would it need to be when it has so much public funding?

I rarely watch anything on the bbc and rarely listen to the radio. I get my news from websites (and I buy an old-fashioned printed paper most days). I don't feel particularly inclined to continue having to pay a TV licence for a pretty-biased service that I rarely intentionally use

My own personal interpretation of the BBC is that it's pretty st. They seem very keen on pushing a multi-cultural, liberal agenda - political correctness being more important than, well, anything (high quality journalism included).

Sell it off, give every household a little tax-cut and make the bbc stand on it's own.

IMHO

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elster said:

Then the TV licence would remain, there is no question of this.

I'm sure you're right but it shouldn't.

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I hoestly can't remember the last time I watched something on the BBC or listened to something on their radio stations that I enjoyed.

But, that's just my personal opinion and I live with it because I don't really watch much television anyway. What really riles me is that their news coverage is plain crap. It's appallingly biased to the left.

Something that is public funded should be completely neutral and the BBC plainly is not.

I get my news from Reuters/AP and various newspaper websites (FT/Times/Telegraph and even the Guardian).

The whole phone-voting scandal thing should have been the nail in the coffin. It certainly would have been if it were a private company...

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jmorgan said:

Privatise the beeb and quality programing vanishes from the UK, welcome to the US and car crash telly.

No, the point is that if they actually do produce quality programming then it should be able to able to stand by itself and succeed without enforced public funding.

And I perosnally am not aware of any real quality programming from the BBC. I certainly don't enjoy TG any more.

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Eric Mc said:

Lefty 200 Drams said:

jmorgan said:

Privatise the beeb and quality programing vanishes from the UK, welcome to the US and car crash telly.

No, the point is that if they actually do produce quality programming then it should be able to able to stand by itself and succeed without enforced public funding.

And I perosnally am not aware of any real quality programming from the BBC. I certainly don't enjoy TG any more.

There's more to the BBC than TG.

I don't dispute that. But nobody has so far given any examples of the top-quality programming that comes from the BBC for me to disagree with.

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Fittster said:

Eric Mc said:

Lefty 200 Drams said:

Eric Mc said:

Lefty 200 Drams said:

jmorgan said:

Privatise the beeb and quality programing vanishes from the UK, welcome to the US and car crash telly.

No, the point is that if they actually do produce quality programming then it should be able to able to stand by itself and succeed without enforced public funding.

And I perosnally am not aware of any real quality programming from the BBC. I certainly don't enjoy TG any more.

There's more to the BBC than TG.

I don't dispute that. But nobody has so far given any examples of the top-quality programming that comes from the BBC for me to disagree with.

One man's "quality" is another man's "must avoid" - so it is difficult to make a list of what YOU might consider to be "quality". However, in MY opinion, most of the output of both BBC 4 and BBC Radio 4 I would describe as "quality". I also think that BBC's sports coverage is second to none (when they put their mind to it).

I do recognise that the BBC has lapsed on many occasions and some political bias can sometimes be perceived - but they do allow other voices too. Witness Andrew Neill's savaging of Dianne Abbot last week.

It's not perfect but I do not think that any other broadcaster ANYWHERE in the world comes even close to the breadth of stuff they cover.

Should the BBC stick to Rethian principles and withdraw from other areas of broadcasting?

"The term 'Reithianism' describes certain principles of broadcasting associated with Lord Reith. These include an equal consideration of all viewpoints, probity, universality and a commitment to public service. It can be distinguished from the free-market approach to broadcasting, where programming aims to attract the largest audiences or advertising revenues, ahead of - and, in practice, often contrary to - any artistic merit, impartiality, educative or entertainment values, that a programme may have."