AAAlphaThunder wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19 2020 9:18am
expressman33 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 17 2020 9:02am
There is talk now about scrapping the licence fee and replacing it with a subscription service .
By the time the BBC implement that Nexflix will make the BBC obsolete.
Yes that's what you want, isn't it - faceless American conglomerates providing content to the UK, because if the BBC went, there would be nothing to stop the commercial channels being bought out. Netflix may be fine providing movies online, the cinema is no longer the social focus that it was, Netflix have also made some good movies of their own and extended that into drama serials - and if that's all you want on TV, so be it. But what about any local content (even "local" to the UK), what about entertainment other than dramas - what about news and all the rest?
This globalist argument makes me fear for the NHS - because it's like applying the 80/20 rule to a comprehensive supplier. If 80% of the work can be done by someone cheaper ot more responsive, let them have it, eh?
There is no doubt the BBC (like the NHS) needs reform - they are both "old" organizations, the problem is that those proposing "reforms" have vested interests - as in the current proponent who simply wants to stifle any opposition. Cummings, the master manipulator, is at work trying to build disatisfaction into something bigger - he did it with the EU so now he needs a new target......