The future of the BBC

Tessa Jowell wants us to decide the future of the BBC.

A consultation leaflet published by the culture department today called Your BBC, Your Say asks members of the public whether they think the licence fee is the best way of paying for the BBC and, if not, for suggestions of alternative ways of funding the corporation - a potentially explosive question.

Privatise it and let the new owners decide how to fund it. There, that’ll be £50,000 for the consultancy please and if you even think about not paying I’ll send the vans round. They can detect non-payment with that whirly radar thingy you know.

I love this bit

Ms Jowell said that for the first time the future of the BBC would be decided by the "British people", rather than the "great and the good".

Because the "great unwashed" are neither?

Posted by JohnJo at December 12, 2003 09:24 AM | TrackBack