[Stockland Hillman]

It looks like that's the way the program is going 

And of course the whole reason the BBC is needing to make enormous cuts to it's budgets is because of 13+ years of a government that's actively hostile to the very idea of a publicly funded broadcaster........


www.theguardian.com 

No. Just no.

The BBC is a £5.7 billion revenue organisation. The licence freeze isn't the biggest factor. 

Every time the government is blamed on a "hostile" government it let's the BBC management off the hook. Every time it excuses poor management choices this way it enables cuts. 

Every time the government, the Internet,  the US streaming services get blamed rather than the finger pointed where it belongs, it enables these cuts.

Every time nonsense is posted about BBC Studios commercial budgets and licence fee PSB budgets you enable cuts.  The internal accounting  being passed of as if biblical verse set in stone, and not what it is: technocratic slight of hand.

The simple fact is the BBC has chosen to spend huge sums on niche content and opinions on BBC sounds, where its podcasts don't follow the same broadcast rules on impartiality  - many shows on BBC sounds get so few listeners that per pound/per audience the service is the most expensive of all. It's chosen to spend money on 'BBC Verify ' where it selectivity targets a handful of topics to "correct" while ignoring huge issues that are misrepresented (which happen to coincide with issues it's accused of being biased toward)

Its not lack of budget - everyone has a spending limit of some sort - it's where is being spent by BBC Managers.

Want investigative journalism on newsnight?  Want regional News? Want journalism based local radio?  Want a dedicated UK news channel so the 50+ audience (most likely to vote) get PSB news rather than GB News? Then stop buying into the 'it's the licence fee cuts' narrative.  Stop enabling failure, stop promoting this false narrative.