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Boris Johnson threatens BBC with two-pronged attack
UK Guardian ^

Posted on 12/15/2019 6:17:01 PM PST by ameribbean expat

Downing Street is threatening the future of the BBC by insisting it is seriously considering decriminalising non-payment of the licence fee, while boycotting Radio 4’s Today programme over the broadcaster’s supposed anti-Tory bias.

No 10 pulled ministers from Saturday’s edition of the Today programme and sources said it intended to “withdraw engagement” from the show in future.

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During the election campaign, Johnson threatened to take the BBC’s licence fee away as he called into question its status as a publicly funded broadcaster. The prime minister suggested the licence fee, which is guaranteed to continue until at least 2027, was a general tax that could no longer be justified when other media organisations had found other ways of funding themselves.

Any changes to the BBC’s funding model would require parliament to pass fresh legislation. Abolition would be hard, but a bigger risk for the BBC is the negotiations with the government over the cost of the licence fee between 2022 and 2027.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bbc; bojo; borisjohnson; brexit; brexitparty; britain; england; nigelfarage; radio4; television; unitedkingdom
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1 posted on 12/15/2019 6:17:01 PM PST by ameribbean expat
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To: ameribbean expat

...and Trump should follow that lead and defund NPR.


2 posted on 12/15/2019 6:19:41 PM PST by ThePatriotsFlag (Congress is not made up of leaders however they are representatives of their voters.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Don’t frickin’ threaten, do it.


3 posted on 12/15/2019 6:20:06 PM PST by deadrock
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To: ameribbean expat

Those ‘tards don’t deserve a guaranteed income.

Let them earn it.

It would be a wake-up call.


4 posted on 12/15/2019 6:23:56 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: ameribbean expat
It is about time.

The BBC has pushed Socialism on the world stage for at least four generations.

The BBC has been a major force for pushing horrible theories about government .

5 posted on 12/15/2019 6:24:56 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: ameribbean expat

The problem with the BBC is a little more challenging than defunding NPR.

It’s like us defunding CNN/MSNBC, VOA, PBS, Discovery, Science Channel and every terrestrial AM/FM station.

As skewed as they are against the right what’s going to pick up the slack for foreign service and the native language radio broadcasts?

That’s one valid thing I think they do as well as the VOA, RFE, RL and maybe even better.


6 posted on 12/15/2019 6:25:23 PM PST by PittsburghAfterDark (There is no one more racist than a white liberal.)
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To: marktwain

If the BBC were a private company, they would have been sued out of existence, for covering for Jimmy Saville.


7 posted on 12/15/2019 6:26:18 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ThePatriotsFlag
Not just NPR.

We need to stop government funding of the universities.

We need to stop government funding of college loans.

The universities and colleges have become nothing but factories for turning out anti-American activists, at our expense.

8 posted on 12/15/2019 6:26:53 PM PST by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

Grew up listening to The BBC World Service on Shortwave.

I was saddened to learn on my recent trip to London that they’ve turned Bush House into a college. I would have loved to go on a tour there back in the day.


9 posted on 12/15/2019 6:27:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: marktwain

#8

+1


10 posted on 12/15/2019 6:32:35 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: ameribbean expat

Make the fookin fee, free.


11 posted on 12/15/2019 6:39:57 PM PST by gasport (The dung beetle should be the symbol of the Democrat Party)
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To: dfwgator

I find it astonishing that there’s still those that believe, because it is (forced) tax payer funded and not a private corporation, it is an ‘honest’ news organization because they state their goal is to be ‘honest and objective’.

It’s STATE RUN TV. Pure and simple. When the State is full of working class sell-outs and part of a globalist agenda all you’re going to get is pure propaganda.

Yet there’s still people here on FR, from the UK, that believe what the BBC tell them. It’s why they still have such a high opinion of the NHS. At this point you’d think everyone has woken up from the big lie.


12 posted on 12/15/2019 6:41:44 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ameribbean expat

BBC revenue collectors go door to door collecting the TV tax and will even get the cops to let them inside to inspect for un-taxed televisions.

The streaming world is cutting revenue and driving the inspectors batty trying to determine if a TV is connected to the airwaves or not.


13 posted on 12/15/2019 6:46:57 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: ameribbean expat

Id it just me or is that article hard to understand?


14 posted on 12/15/2019 6:47:46 PM PST by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing obamacare is worse than obamacare itself.)
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To: fuzzylogic
Yet there’s still people here on FR, from the UK, that believe what the BBC tell them.

Propaganda is _very_ powerful.

There are thousands of "facts" pushed by the establishment media that are believed by a majority here at FR that are total garbage.

We are victims of lies--so I tend to cut folks a bit of slack when they believe things that are not true.

I would encourage everyone to constantly question everything--and just because the establishment media says something is crazy is _not_ a reason for you to totally disregard it.

Folks need to do their homework on everything--knowledge is not free--and nowhere is it written that we apes are entitled to valid information from reliable sources.

Here are two questions to ask when you read something from any establishment source:

Who benefits from this version of events?

Is there any chance those who benefit have intervened in the process to get their point of view to prevail in the public square?
15 posted on 12/15/2019 6:52:43 PM PST by cgbg (The Democratic Party is morphing into the Donner Party)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

The British people despise the BBC collection agents.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=bbc+tv+license


16 posted on 12/15/2019 6:56:04 PM PST by Rebelbase
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To: ameribbean expat

Al Beeb is one of the most dishonest hardcore globalist/leftists/gaia worshiping organizations on the planet.

Its a shame because a lot of their programs are truly good - when they’re not pushing their politics - but the news programs are simply awful and you know any documentary about any subject that is remotely political is going to be hopeless.


17 posted on 12/15/2019 7:01:27 PM PST by FLT-bird
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To: cgbg

I used to think that the general public is intelligent enough to see what is propaganda and what is obviously honest & true.

How incredibly naive I was. I grew up in the UK, moved here as a teenager. I thought American’s were nuts - always going on about ‘their rights’. They lacked the ‘common sense’ of the British. Especially when it came to guns.

Now I’m the opposite. I’m a gun owner and understand the ‘why’. Even when I hear somebody from the UK that understands their rights are being eroded, talk about guns, they immediately, still to this day, cower to the ‘but guns are wrong’ mantra....*very* few state they know they need a 2A.

Oh, I also love, ‘the NHS is free healthcare’. smh. The BBC at its finest.


18 posted on 12/15/2019 7:02:15 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: ameribbean expat
Blah, blah, blah, blah.

Until the Royals get thrown out of Buckingham and forced to work like everyone else, it’s all Kabuki Theatre....

19 posted on 12/15/2019 7:10:26 PM PST by SecondAmendment (This just proves my latest theory ... LEFTISTS RUIN EVERYTHING!)
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To: Rebelbase
BBC revenue collectors go door to door collecting the TV tax and will even get the cops to let them inside to inspect for un-taxed televisions.

What if the television has a penguin on it?


20 posted on 12/15/2019 7:19:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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