Is there a campaign anywhere to abolish the license fee? Anyone want tostart one?
On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 17:12 +0100 11/10/07, Jason Cartwright wrote: > >Well, like it or not big corps are often the gatekeepers sat between > >the audience masses and content owners. That doesn't seem to be > >changing (*cough* Google). > > > >J > > And there you have the case in point. Auntie, for better or worse, is > the best we have. Radio, television, and now Internet. BBC > Worldservice is a world brand, because of the quality and the > veracity of the content. It never had to sell itself, it just was on > the only voice of authority and truth that reason so many nations in > the world. > > The masses can have the mass media. I want quality. At the moment for > me that means Radio 4. I don't do telly at the moment. > > Public service broadcasting (the BBC, Channel 4 etc) cannot and > should not "compete" in the market place. > > Gordo > > -- > "Think Feynman"///////// > http://pobox.com/~gordo/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/