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But inversely, the BBC becomes easier to poke with a stick because it doesn't stand up for itself as much publicly, particularly easy for newspapers/politicians to just keep criticising because they won't bite back. It wouldn't need to be a huge celebratory thing, but they need to do a bit more of standing their ground and going "Hey, we're the BBC, and we're actually pretty darn fine."
I can't truly blame them for being so low key about the whole thing, quite a few things have changed significantly since then and going all out with a big celebratory campaign would be seen as wasteful and attract a fair share of detractors especially in the face of their DQF policy.
But inversely, the BBC becomes easier to poke with a stick because it doesn't stand up for itself as much publicly, particularly easy for newspapers/politicians to just keep criticising because they won't bite back. It wouldn't need to be a huge celebratory thing, but they need to do a bit more of standing their ground and going "Hey, we're the BBC, and we're actually pretty darn fine."