Mark Thompson

The DG of the BBC doesn’t quite get it:

We do have a lesson to learn. We need to engage in a conversation
across the BBC, not just on the narrow issues of phone competitions and
the compliance of publicity tapes but on the values which matter most
to the people who pay for the BBC: honesty, fairness, respect.

No, the thing which people want most is choice: the choice of whether to pay for your output or not. Stop funding yourself via regressive taxation and no one will give a damn about the rest of it, you can do what you like.

4 responses

  1. Well, some people want that most. Bit unusual of you not to link through to some stats or whatever to support your claim, though.
    >>”No one will give a damn…”
    Clearly, people will still give a damn. Loads of people give a damn about Fox News, for goodness sake. Whether their givingadamnness is fair or not is a slightly different argument.
    Tim adds: “Bit unusual of you not to link through to some stats or whatever to support your claim, though.”
    It’s Friday. Unsupported prejudice is OK on Fridays. I’ve said so. For me, anyway, not for anyone else, of couse.

  2. Okay Jonny, let’s *give* people the choice, and then see how many choose to stay with BBC. Then we’ll know how they felt about choice in regard to the BBC.

  3. “Bit unusual of you not to link through to some stats or whatever to support your claim, though.”
    http://www.ipsos-mori.com/polls/2000/ms000517.shtml
    http://www.yougov.com/archives/pdf/TEL020101011.pdf
    56% want it scrapped in one, 58% in the other. Considering how much their audience has been sliding, I doubt it’s improved since then.

  4. Also, the license fee is really bloody expensive now. It really has gone too far in recent years, and all in exchange for a load of rubbish and no sport.

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