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What if someone in a low income family, a pensioner or a single parent likes the BBC 4 couture shows?
The same argument could be made that people like Michael Winner is paying for 1Xtra, or people without kids are paying for the children's channels, etc.
The wider tax argument can even go as far as that I pay for students to got uni, tho I never benefited from it, or that I pay £1000 a year in council tax, though the area I live in never has its bins emptied on time.
You can't judge likes and dislikes by social groups, you are quite right - You can be a single low income mum and like BBC4. You miss the key points...I was talking about more advanced arguments on access and appreciation scores, NOT the simplistic values you are using.
These are weighted to take all the issues into account (not ideal, but a better way of looking at the issue)
The BBC is different to wider social taxation. It exists to broadcast TO the community, and thus should at least try and reflect the interests and aspirations of it. At the moment programme spending is to much biased towards the shows BBC staff want to make, not those its audience wants.
BTW, the BBC is a STATE broadcaster, it is controlled by the state by unelected officers and has its remit and budget set by a government minister.
Of course other state broadcaster make drama, comedy and entertainment! Just because they don't import to the UK, please tell me your not naive enough to think its not made????
The figures quoted ARE correct.
Dog posted:
What if someone in a low income family, a pensioner or a single parent likes the BBC 4 couture shows?
The same argument could be made that people like Michael Winner is paying for 1Xtra, or people without kids are paying for the children's channels, etc.
The wider tax argument can even go as far as that I pay for students to got uni, tho I never benefited from it, or that I pay £1000 a year in council tax, though the area I live in never has its bins emptied on time.
You can't judge likes and dislikes by social groups, you are quite right - You can be a single low income mum and like BBC4. You miss the key points...I was talking about more advanced arguments on access and appreciation scores, NOT the simplistic values you are using.
These are weighted to take all the issues into account (not ideal, but a better way of looking at the issue)
The BBC is different to wider social taxation. It exists to broadcast TO the community, and thus should at least try and reflect the interests and aspirations of it. At the moment programme spending is to much biased towards the shows BBC staff want to make, not those its audience wants.
BTW, the BBC is a STATE broadcaster, it is controlled by the state by unelected officers and has its remit and budget set by a government minister.
Of course other state broadcaster make drama, comedy and entertainment! Just because they don't import to the UK, please tell me your not naive enough to think its not made????
The figures quoted ARE correct.
