[Kim Wexler’s Ponytail]

The BBC are a very political organisation, that's not party politics, it's lobbying and changing things in pursuit of what it wants - that is to maintain and grow influence - hence push online and into written text content where it was set up as a audio visual broadcaster. Pushing into markets they weren't set up to cover. That's why newspapers hate the BBC, and now podcasters are becoming increasingly negative about the organisation.

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Sure, nothing at all to do with the ideology of the owners of those newspapers.

The pearl clutching over podcasting isn't too dissimilar to when the commercial sector objected to BBC Three, and indeed the BBC entering the multichannel world at all. It's the same old BBC attack lines, when they try to evolve they're told they have no right to. If they don't they're accused of being stubbornly stuck in their ways. Back in the day The Daily Mail probably objected to the BBC broadcasting in colour.