Comment on 500,000 households cancel TV licence putting BBC future in jeopardy

kfml9m5s@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  You really don’t want them to become dependant on advertisers.

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Also, there would be potential conflicts of interest with those advertisers and the content.

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  • kfml9m5s@sh.itjust.works ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why not? Do you really think that BBC is independent? Then think again.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That’s not helped by making them less independent.

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  • ThomasWilliams@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    How is an organisation totally dependent on govt funding and legal backing (and whose board is appointed by the PM) in any way “independent” ?

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    • FreeBooteR69@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      How is somebody dependent on revenue from soulless corporations independent? They are the worst for suppressing news, especially about them or their friends. Do something they don’t like and revenues start dropping like rocks.

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’d rather have an organisation dependent on funding from a democratically-elected government negotiated on a regular schedule and whose board is at least nominally arms-length, than one in hock to big business.

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    • Lumidaub@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I didn’t say it was.

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    • Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Because they don’t have to bend over backwards to any entity that says they will give them money. Government money is guaranteed, no matter the content.

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