The BBC does drive me mad. BBC 3 and 4 are a waste of money, as are some of the more obscure radio channels that have sprung up over the last few years. I resent the fact the BBC website can be see all over the world by non-licence paying people and it spends too much time trying to compete with the commercial channels instead of concentrating on the quality programmes we know it can make. Having said that we would be lost without it and would sink into a sea of commercialised news reporting and programme making.
The Times newspaper is a good case in point. I’ve enjoyed reading it the last few years but since Rupert Murdoch told the paper to start supporting the Tories again it has lost the balance in it’s reporting that I enjoyed. It is just a mouth piece for the Tories. So we need the objectivity that the BBC offers, rather than just let the Murdochs of the world take over and all those who resent the licence fee should really just get over it.
