Gary Lineker and the BBC
Saturday, 11 March 2023 06:08 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bens_dadI am entirely on Gary Lineker's side over the Illegal Immigration Bill.
It isn't just the UN that says the Bill is illegal; the introduction to the Bill suggests it is probably illegal.
The BBC Chairman and Director General are both Conservatives. Richard Sharp, the Chairman is far too cosy with senior politicians to be allowed to talk about balance and impartiality. Given that he has access to the kind of money that even a Prime Minister would like, I find it difficult to believe he is too stupid to do nothing when that is the best course of action for the BBC.
It has been suggested that the TV licence fee is untenable in the Netflix age and they should replace it with a subscription model. I don't see how a public-service broadcaster can compete with Netflix, Amazon and Disney on that basis: to maintain subscriptions you need to give people what they think they want, rather than what they need (even if in fact that is closer to what they actually want).
So why has the BBC brought itself into disrepute by talking about Gary Lineker's private tweets ?
I believe it is not cockup, but conspiracy.
For many years Rupert Murdoch, who can steer an awful lot of votes, has been trying to make us believe that the BBC is an unfair rival to his empire, and this government has made no secret of the fact that they do not support the BBC.
What is the betting that Conservatives at the top of the BBC are internal sabateurs, intent on bringing it down ?
It isn't just the UN that says the Bill is illegal; the introduction to the Bill suggests it is probably illegal.
The BBC Chairman and Director General are both Conservatives. Richard Sharp, the Chairman is far too cosy with senior politicians to be allowed to talk about balance and impartiality. Given that he has access to the kind of money that even a Prime Minister would like, I find it difficult to believe he is too stupid to do nothing when that is the best course of action for the BBC.
It has been suggested that the TV licence fee is untenable in the Netflix age and they should replace it with a subscription model. I don't see how a public-service broadcaster can compete with Netflix, Amazon and Disney on that basis: to maintain subscriptions you need to give people what they think they want, rather than what they need (even if in fact that is closer to what they actually want).
So why has the BBC brought itself into disrepute by talking about Gary Lineker's private tweets ?
I believe it is not cockup, but conspiracy.
For many years Rupert Murdoch, who can steer an awful lot of votes, has been trying to make us believe that the BBC is an unfair rival to his empire, and this government has made no secret of the fact that they do not support the BBC.
What is the betting that Conservatives at the top of the BBC are internal sabateurs, intent on bringing it down ?
