Posted on 06/21/2011 12:43:33 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
In view of satellite technology and BBC’s ability to make a profit; that ‘licence fee’ monopoly is corrupt in so many ways....not least of which is the ‘Big Brother’ house compliance monitoring.
A good conservative PM should make its elimination a top priority.
“The BBC often passes on as if they’re real fake photos put out by the Palestinian Authority. So-called intelligentsia don’t have a problem with those forgeries masquerading as news.”
PaliSimians are a ‘protected class’, remember?
I think you misunderstood what I said. The BBC turns a modest profit from its record label and publishing imprint, and it does make an increasing amount of money from successful sales of its products abroad, but the amounts involved in no way cover the cost of its operations. The BBC is an immense organisation - it is easily the biggest broadcaster in the world, in terms of audience, market share, number of employees, number of programs made etc etc.
“The BBC often passes on as if they’re real, fake photos put out by the Palestinian Authority. So-called intelligentsia don’t have a problem with those forgeries masquerading as news.”
“PaliSimians are a ‘protected class’, remember?”
Oh, oh, that’s the explanation: Muslim Palestinian lies and forged pictures about Israel are acceptable to the media because lying and falsifying are part of their “culture”?
Islam requires lies when dealing with non-Muslims. The two big categories of these required lies when interacting with non-Muslims are takiyya and kitman.
The Marxist Left, in its campaign to destroy the West, invented a facade term to masquerade, explain and excuse all matter of crime and perversity and called it “multiculturalism.” Its catch-all buzz word synonym, “diversity,” has equally become s sacred cow term kept well fed by the Leftist media and academe.
Nevertheless, BBC is in the business of selling a product while being subsidized by substantial & mandatory fees.
If the product is so superior, it should be participating in the market place with its competitors; competitors who pay taxes, provide jobs (for more taxpayers) and do not have the advantage of BBC’s privileged status.
BBC’s financing originated in 1922 - that day has long since passed.
http://ketupa.net/bbc.htm
In 2004 there were 24.5m licences in force, with estimates that around 5% of UK sets were unlicensed. The annual fee for a colour tv licence was £126.50 per household (half-price for those who are registered as blind), with a licence for a monochrome receiver costing £42.
THAT’S A LOT OF REVENUE & ONE REASON TO KEEP THE LICENSING SCAM IN PLACE.
Just a bump in the road for the lefties - nothing this small will derail their agenda.
The BBC is a public service organisation that supplements its income by selling its products.
If the product is so superior, it should be participating in the market place with its competitors; competitors who pay taxes, provide jobs (for more taxpayers) and do not have the advantage of BBC’s privileged status.
The product is participating in the market place. It sells doesnt it? If it was no good other countries wouldn't buy it. And what makes you think the BBC doesn't provide jobs? Increasingly these days it subcontracts work out to independent producers.
BBC’s financing originated in 1922 - that day has long since passed.
I thought the licence fee dated to immediately after WW2?
In 2004 there were 24.5m licences in force, with estimates that around 5% of UK sets were unlicensed. The annual fee for a colour tv licence was £126.50 per household (half-price for those who are registered as blind), with a licence for a monochrome receiver costing £42.
THAT’S A LOT OF REVENUE & ONE REASON TO KEEP THE LICENSING SCAM IN PLACE.
Well, at least the Beeb doesn't pretend to be free.
License fees to receive ‘signals’ is the income source that allows BBC to operate.
The ‘product’ is programming and producing entertainment shows, not selling T-shirts and tote bags.
PBS on steroids. When the government controls the product the government controls the consumer.
Your spelling suggests that perhaps you are employed by the BBC ORGANISATION!!!
True. Essentially.
The ‘product’ is programming and producing entertainment shows, not selling T-shirts and tote bags.
I know. I said that.
PBS on steroids. When the government controls the product the government controls the consumer.
I prefer to think of PBS as "BBC-lite". The Government does NOT control it.
Your spelling suggests that perhaps you are employed by the BBC ORGANISATION!!!
I am not employed by the BBC. I am one of the owners of it though.
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