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Telegraph Group vs BBC Online . . .

(November 2003)

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DJ
DJGM
MediaGuardian posted:

The managing director of the Telegraph Group has called for the BBC to scrap
fantasy football, celebrity gossip and search engines from its internet services.

And in a 3-pronged attack on the BBC's burgeoning online activities, influential
think tank the Institute for Public Policy Research said it was "unacceptable"
for the BBC services just to "spring up" without any regulation.

In a forthright assault on the BBC, Hugo Drayton, the former Telegraph internet
boss who heads the British Internet Publishers' Alliance, accused the BBC
of "distorting the market" by providing a huge range of online content
that does not necessarily fall within its public service remit.



Read the rest of the article here . . .

So, what do you think . . . do you agree, or should the BBC tell Hugo Drayton to go play in the traffic . . . ?
MI
michaelwh1 Founding member
I don't agree at all - BBCi is one of the best websites on the internet. It's very difficult to find another site with the same amount and standard of content, and surely that's something to be proud of.
SB
SB
I dont understand why people are slating BBC Online so much. I think its either jealousy that its so succesful or the anti-BBC bandwagon - except criticising one of the BBCs finest products isnt a good idea, not many people will agree with him basically.
RO
roo
What a fool....BBCi is fantastic. And anyway, technically they don't even have a search engine, it's just a co-branded Google.

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