Cheesehoven
Monday 27th December 2010 11:34pm
149 posts
If you think the BBC is so good there is an easy solution, make it a subscription service like HBO and see how many would willingly pay for it.
The idea that the entire population should be compulsorily taxed in order to be given what an elite decides to give them is extraordinary.
Nor can the argument that the BBC stands for 'quality' or 'standards' be maintained. Not even the BBC argues that anymore. Their argument seems to be now merely we'll give you the same old crap only without ad breaks (and with added brainwashing, which seems to have worked on some).
Having abolished comedy from the mainstream to after the watershed (as can be seen by them having to scramble around to find old 70s sitcoms the only things suitable to show in the early evening), the BBC 'mainstream' now exists only of food programmes, miserable PC soap operas and sadistic game shows. One might find all this rubbish on commercial channels, but at least you would not go to prison for refusing to pay for it.