BBC licence fee: Fury at recruitment of £325k bias monitor - ‘Beeb needs to be DEFUNDED’

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THE BBC's decision to spend the equivalent of £325,000 a year on a senior executive to monitor bias has prompted an incredulous reaction from former Brexit Party MEP Rupert Lowe.

To continue the EU analogy, it’s like when Nigel Farage said to Herman van Rompuy: ‘Who are you?Rebecca Ryan, Campaign Director of Defund the BBC, told : “Ken will be paid £325k per year out of licence fee payers' pockets to tell us what we already know - that the BBC is incapable of adhering to its Charter obligations to represent all of the UK and deliver impartial programming.“The BBC is plummeting in the polls but again we are seeing PR and crisis management over substance.

 

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It's not about time to make the BBC a commercial organisation it's long past that. Why in this day and age do we not have a choice to watch it or not. I could have Netflix, Amazon Prime and Freeview etc for the whole year for the price of the BBC licence fee. No contest.

I’ll do it for half that, AND I will be truly independent.

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