04-12-2023, 08:42 PM
(04-12-2023, 08:31 PM)Radio_man Wrote: Prior to 2010 the World Service was funded by a grant from the foreign office. Then the 2010 election happened.
The international side of the news channel is a commercial operation.
If you think the World Service is 'wasted money', then you don't understand the concept of soft power, along with how valued the BBC's impartial journalism is in many parts of the world, even in the US.
Your completely missing the point...