Well let's be fair the media in that era we're well out of control as we're the public sucking on the nipple of scandal wherever it could be found , its all now transferred to social mediaQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
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Well let's be fair the media in that era we're well out of control as we're the public sucking on the nipple of scandal wherever it could be found , its all now transferred to social mediaQuote:
Originally Posted by the other bob wilson
I generally watch telly for the sport of which there's feck all on the BBC.
Nowadays the BBC is a load of sh1te reality programs on subjects like sewing, jewellery, make up, drag artists, ballroom dancing.............
If the BBC ceased to exist overnight who'd b1oody care.
..now there's a proper snobby ****..Quote:
Originally Posted by Bald Barry Bastad
You don’t have to pay your TV licence, it’s optional. If you don’t watch anything on BBC just don’t pay the licence. Simples.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrewsbury Blue
The truth is probably 99% of people who pay the licence watch BBC, or listen to the radio, or a podcast.
As someone says above you wouldn’t realise what you’ve lost until you lost it.
I’d gladly pay another 1% to make up for the minority who clam they never watch BBC.
It's just a tax. People pay taxes for all sorts of things they don't use. I like schools. Refuse collection. And some roads. I don't like prisons, but I'd rather they were taxpayer funded than privately owned.Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrewsbury Blue
Do you think things have changed? There was a chance to do something about media excess in 2011 with the Levenson Report when Murdoch went grovelling in front of that Committee, but there wasn't the political will to follow through on it, so we now have a situation where the BBC, once again, gets it in the neck from all sides (albeit deservedly this time), while others, just as culpable or maybe even more so, are free to stick the boot in while showing their complete hypocrisy all the while.Quote:
Originally Posted by life on mars
Although I didn't agree with everything in this programme, it really strikes home for me. I can remember that I had a couple of days off on the Monday and Tuesday after Diana died and until I get into work on the Wednesday and spoke to people who felt the same way as me, I genuinely began to wonder if there was something wrong with me because I found the reaction as reported disturbing and a little frightening;-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xFn...nnel=CaNANDian
This is simply not true if you watch any live program on TV you have to pay the licence fee. Look at the link to the Radio Times article. So if you never watch the BBC but do watch Sky ITV or Chanel four you still have to pay the licence fee even if you never watch the BBC. You are the second person peddling the lie that you don't have to pay the licence fee if you don't watch the BBC check your facts out and read the Radio Times article.Quote:
Originally Posted by J R Hartley
As for the nonsense that you wouldn't realise what you lost till its gone no one is saying abolish the BBC just make it a subscription chanel. You Would gladly pay extra for the minority that never watch the BBC. Good don't you realise that by making it a subscription Chanel that is exactly what you would be doing.
You're absolutely right and it's a disgrace; people are press-ganged into paying their TV licence even if they only watch live TV from sources other than the BBC. If they don't they get bombarded with threatening mail and unsolicited visits from the BBC's army of snoopers (Inspectors). Also, failure to pay the TV licence is a criminal act and not a civil action. Absolute horrendous abuse of power, democracy my arse?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shrewsbury Blue
I agree and because it is a tax I object that it is paid at a flat rate. My blood boils when I think of how millionaires and poor people on benefits pay the same fee. It should be personally adjusted according to means.Quote:
Originally Posted by NYCBlue
How do you know it's garbage if you haven't watched any of it for 5 years? The titles?Quote:
Originally Posted by Maccy Blue
Most of us own vehicles that need to be insured, it’s the law, those meerkats and that f*cking fat opera singer don’t come cheap yet I’m paying for them through my insurance, involuntary I might add. Bastard commercial television.
We're you there sludge? Saw it first hand did you?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
The Channel Four Dispatches documentary exposed the truthQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
It was as good as being there
Search it out , learn something xx
Come back to me when you have watched it
So you weren't here OK? Just wondering. I suppose it depends which version you choose ot believe, but your political stance being what it is here really wasn't and question was there?Quote:
Originally Posted by SLUDGE FACTORY
Well if you watched the documentary about the Cardiff 3 , framed for the murder of lynette White I would think that as a man of reasonable intelligence you would realise......these boys were fitted up .......and it proved that they wereQuote:
Originally Posted by xsnaggle
You didn't have to ......be there ......as you say
If you watch the channel four dispatches documentary on the Battle of Orgreave you will , I hope , of a man of reasonable intelligence be in no doubt that the BBC presented the news showing miners attacking the police then the police charging in on mounted horseback , flattening all in front of them , and being clapped back in by their mates .
Which was a lie as the police attacked the miners who then defended themselves
You didn't have to ......be there ......to know what happened
Why do you think many of the miners arrested that day were not charged ?
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