26-03-2023, 11:24 PM
(26-03-2023, 01:26 PM)interestednovice Wrote: I was aware of the cuts to local news, but there are other sources of local news so it’s not quite “as bad”, in my opinion.
Please could you identify this source of good-quality, high-quantity local news which (a) has journalists based in the local area and (b) doesn't take some money away from the license fee? I appreciate in some (larger) cities this exists, but it's most certainly not elsewhere.
(26-03-2023, 08:55 PM)ViridianFan Wrote: I do think that we’ve got to a situation where when people talk about “the BBC” that they often just think of the news division and forget all of the other things it does. I think it’s where a lot of the unhappiness with the license fee comes from.
Agree, but I believe the bigger problem is its name - "TV license". It should be called the "public service media license" to encapsulate everything it now pays for.