Hostile politicians, cuts and controversy: why the BBC has never been so vulnerable

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After a shocking week for the broadcaster, what are the issues it must tackle to keep its place in the nation’s cultural landscape?

In his eye-catching pitch for his new job as chair of the powerful parliamentary group that monitors the BBC, Julian Knight, MP for Solihull, promised, among other things, to run the culture, media and sport select committee, as an “unofficial ‘Royal Commission’ on the future of the corporation”.

 

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It’s created its own problems. Its news and other output are influenced overwhelmingly by its own pro EU, pro migrant etc agenda, meaning it’s strayed from its public service impartiality obligations, undermimed its credibility and alienated a lot of its audience.

Aw bless, I'm sure 'the senior source from No.10' won't let them down.

Maybe the BBC should have sided with the people who pay the licence fee and not the Tory party, you reap what you sow

Scrap the licence fee

LOL, DEFUND the tavistock/chatham house BBC

BBC = Beasting British Children. Fuck the BBC. They did all they could to facilitate the Tory government we have now. I hope the Yanks buy it and everyone working there now loses their jobs.

the bbc are Hostile the bbc is Hostile

I love the BBC

I love the BBC from across the big pond.

I think that the BBC has cut its own throat with its bias views

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