02-11-2023, 01:50 PM
(02-11-2023, 01:08 PM)ViridianFan Wrote: It feels very much as if it’s just accepted as one of those things whereas if people actually start complaining more and the bbc management actually grew a pair and stopped hiding behind this digital bbc nonsense and said we are making huge cuts due to the governments decision to freeze the license fee and this is what it means for you as the viewer people may start contacting their MP.It's accepted because it has to be. The BBC can't become a political actor and start blaming the govt, even if that is who is responsible, because antagonising the govt isn't going to help its case, no matter how many people waste their time contacting their MP. And the Digital BBC approach isn't really nonsense - particularly not when it comes to News, where it makes sense to prioritise one of the two mass use parts of BBC News (the other being BBC One bulletins).
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They also need to stop this cutting a bit at a time because it’ covers the severity as the publics memory is short. If they had some one announcement on the everything it would have a far bigger impact on the general population and more people would have noticed.
The reason that the cuts have been bit-by-bit is that BBC funding has fallen bit-by-bit, with BBC budgets falling in real terms basically every year, rather than one big drop. The two alternatives to this approach are both worse - holding back on cuts for one big reveal would be unaffordable, with deficit spending allowing its critics to portray the BBC as reckless and irresponsible; while cutting upfront and having large amounts of spare money for a few years would allow the govt to say that the BBC had more money than it needed and cut BBC income even more.