Time to starve the beast. Or at least stop forcing people to subsidize views with which they disagree. As Jefferson once said, such a thing is tyrannical.
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Time to starve the beast. Or at least stop forcing people to subsidize views with which they disagree. As Jefferson once said, such a thing is tyrannical.
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but but… Top Gear The US version sucks, must not give up UK version…
What I find scary is that many US tv producers have adopted the “the next episode will be… ummm.. we’ll get back to you” policy of the BBC.
I suspect that Top Gear and Doctor Who would do quite well in the private sector.
Shocking, but likely true. 😀
IMO it works fine. The other channels are arguably much worse. A bunch of cheap reality shows, talk shows, news that you could read out of Google News, or worse: complete and utter bunk. Just being able to see Doctor Who is probably worth it. Yeah Top Gear is also interesting (although you should never forget it is an entertainment show with cars rather than any sort of objective car comparison show).
Yeah, those 5 to 8 episodes of Dr Who every 12 to 18 months is well worth the draconian television license laws.
But Trent, you have to factor in the time travel aspects.
I never thought of Top Gear as a car comparison show. But I will say, they made the best case against the suburban use of SUV’s and 4 wheel drives than any environmental group. They also nailed the problem with battery only electric cars, and provided a decent solution (bumper cars no, but a pantograph to overhead line would extend ranges in HOV like lanes). Still, if you try to take Top Gear serious, then you are to uptight to enjoy the show.
I imagine they will have as hard a time defunding the BBC as we have NPR.
London – At last someone has said it. Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London who just won reelection over his left-wing nemesis, “Red Ken” Livingstone, thinks the BBC — the nation’s biggest news outlet — is biased and must change in fundamental ways.
Actually, politicians of all stripes have long complained of a bias against themselves. They can’t all be right!
Sure. I was watching BBC’s Question Time last week or maybe the week before that, when one of the panelists remarked on a member of the audience making a Right-wing comment about creating growth by setting fire to the red tape; the comment was something like “Wow! A Conservative in the audience! I’ve been watching this programme for twenty years and this is the first time I’ve seen that!” He won’t be invited back.
Obviously, someone must have to select the questions. That’s where the bias is applied.