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It doesn’t seem very clever to cut such an influential source of soft power. BBC is after all still considered by normies to be one of the more reliable news sources. In the late 20th century they even used to award scholarships to their employees for political science education to churn out a certain type of people.
I remember that David Cameron made controversial changes to the BBC, but I’ve forgotten the details. Could someone remind me what he did, or link something that goes over it?
It’s pure ideology to destroy the BBC. Anyone with any sense would see the use it has. They will keep it around as propaganda mouth piece Im sure but destroy any use it might have outside of it.
Cameron put his thumb on the scale to get Rona Fairhead appointed head of the BBC trust, which was the governming body of the BBC with the explicit mission statement of creating programming for the TV license holder. She was a career board member and had been a part of acquisitions for major companies for her entire life, this was supposed to be ignored and we’re actually getting the first woman to this position, thank you very much. Fairhead did not renew the BBC Trust, instead it lapsed and was replaced with a much less stringent BBC Board, which is (more opently) subject to the whims of the current government
Bonus: Rona Fairhead was made a baroness for this, and now works for McKinsey
They won’t have enough funds to add the grey filter over footage from China
Will they have enough funds to keep asking the most important question: “but at what cost?”
Good. Terf island should eat it’s own tail.
The UK is an outsized cultural juggernaut thanks in no small part to the BBC. And that international soft power results in much, much more than hundreds of millions of pounds a year in returns to the UK economy.
Isnt this the same year that the TV license fee is going up? How do they justify that to the British taxpayers?
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