Articles about BBC
Young Viewers switch off the BBC.
by TBG
(Daily Telegraph 20 Jan 2021) A National Audit Office review of BBC Finances has revealed that 450,000 fewer households bought a television licence between 2017 and 2020. In particular the number of under-35s turning away from the BBC places “uncertainty over the BBC’s financial future”. The Lady Chairman of the Public Accounts Committee said “Each…
Modern Life and Loneliness
by The Editor
As usual the leftists at the BBC get this wrong. You can come from a stable family background and still feel lonely; be married with children and still feel lonely. Loneliness is a complex business and can be caused by any number of factors and the same hat does not fit all people.
Waldemar Januszczak: The Rasping Voice of Western Spirituality?
by The Editor
Given the sort of broadcasting that one now expects from the BBC, it seems somewhat ungrateful to complain when they produce a documentary on the subject of Europe’s Middle Ages. But a programme that seeks to celebrate the creativity and spirituality of European past presents a problem to Auntie Beeb.
The Corrosion of Modern Drama
by The Editor
By David Hamilton - 'In 2009 Ben Stephenson, the controller of BBC drama commissioning, said that the corporation should encourage "peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking." Yet, according to its own royal charter, the BBC must "be independent in all matters concerning the content of its output". To show how we got to this undemocratic, totalitarian state I give a survey of the war on our culture and history carried on against us in our theatres for over thirty years.'