No but you see, thats the type of nonsense the BBC spouts - you may not agree with the Daily Mail, but the Daily Mail isn't funded via a stealth tax and the Daily Mail doesn't claim to be neutral - unlike the BBC which you are so keen on defending and attacking the Mail over.Quote:
Originally Posted by Intel
As usual it boils down to who is telling the truth and who is not, and the BBC has been caught out no matter how you try to skew it.
BBC hasn't been caught out? The guy admitted it - he hasn't been tricked??Quote:
Originally Posted by -:Undertaker:-
We all know you hate the BBC sadly, I still don't understand what your problem is with them, afterall if you didn't pay tax for the BBC the money would probably go towards benefits anyway. And I would rather watch the bbc than pay for lazy gits.
The BBC have been caught out on the second part, Mark Thompson (good on him for admitting bias during the Thatcher years - I have in the past also called the BBC bias and was ridiculed for even suggesting it was bias against Thatcher) still presides over an organisation which remains biased.Quote:
Originally Posted by Intel
As for the second point - how about leaving the peoples money in their own pockets and allowing them to decide what broadcaster they wish to pay for? how about letting people decide how to spend their own money? now wouldn't that be a nice change. I would rather people have their own money in their own bank accounts, not having to pay for benefit spongers and not having to pay for a bloated and biased organisation.
But the point is NO government, not UKIP, no one, could just remove tax like that. Don't get mw wrong, obviously less tax would be great, but realistically the governemtn are hardly going to stop 100's of millions of pounds of tax.Quote:
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A government can do that, small state is achievable - just as Reagan and Thatcher both proved during the 1980s in both the United States and United Kingdom. Infact they even found that tax revenue increased with lower taxes due to private business rapidly expanding and growing. The fact is that at the moment the public sector is far too large by many hundreds of thousands (even into the millions) and government does what a lot of private business could do/government does what is not needed just because it can. The same theory goes with Ron Paul in the United States (it would be fantastic if he got the nomination for 2012) who proposes the abolition of the Fed and so forth - it sounds drastic, even loony - but we [the west] have now reached the stage where we have too much legislation, regulation and government and its simply unmanagable.Quote:
Originally Posted by Intel
I'm amazed this has come out :P All media companies stir controversy, it's sort of what they do :P Bias varies from sector to sector in each of these broadcasting companies. They'd have a tough time otherwise, to reach a wider audience. As far as I see it, the person who said "Eurosceptics are all mad" was probably talking about himself and/or a small minority of the company.
If we scrape the TV license that means that Doctor Who will take even longer to come back.
If this happens I will hunt you down good sir.