Josh at GoUK.com wrote:
<< it doesn't mean that each of us, individually, has the *right* to
unfettered access to whatever they (the BBC) produce.>>
Once a product is broadcast, the public do have unfettered access to it:
This is a very shallow kind of 'unfettered access', and hardly
what I was getting at. Just because I record something doesn't
mean everyone in Britain, also known as 'the public', now has
access to it. It also doesn't mean that we collectively have
any right to such unfettered access in general, just because we
have some limited access due to the nature of the delivery platform.
The answer isn't in DRM or any kind of legislation. The answer is in
providing content at a low price (the numbers will have to make the costs
viable) where it is easier and cheaper for people to stream an episode of Dr
Who for 20p than it is to get cadge a copy off a friend.
So programmes that can't be piled high and sold cheap won't get made, then?
<<I would hope the aim of the BBC in the future remains what it is now -
public service broadcasting>>
I'm not sure what PSB the BBC offers these days ... Dr Who, Strictly Come
Dancing, running auditions for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musicals, Planet Earth,
etc, etc, have no PSB credentials whatsoever.
If you don't see how 'Doctor Who' or 'Planet Earth' could
be part of a public-service broadcaster's output, then you're
using a definition of 'public-service broadcasting' that I
don't understand; please explain it to me.
> Where is there any personality or individuality in BBC news delivery?
God forbid that journalism should favour facts over opinions.
If I want 'personality', I'll watch Russell Brand.
Yes, some people might well love watching Planet
Earth, but it isn't logical in a multimedia world to ask all the licence fee
payers to support programming which a fair proportion of them don't want to
watch.
Absolutely, we shouldn't have to pay for what we don't watch; henceforth,
I want a refund for when I'm on holiday. And since I never read the sports
pages or do the crossword in the newspaper, I don't want to pay for those
either.
Nor for street-lighting on the roads I don't drive on, or mountain rescue on
mountains I'm not climbing at the time.
A million-way, nano-payment-based menu system would surely be more
cost-effective than a rolled-up lump sum, right, especially for
stuff I didn't know I needed, such as the invention of teletext.
It would, in my opinion, be far better if the BBC got off the
treadmill of nature programmes, costume dramas, soaps, etc and actually
spent some time and effort developing new broadcast material.
I think you're confusing 'the BBC' with 'BBC1 on Sunday evening'.
I consume a fair amount of BBC stuff, and I don't remember the last time I
actually watched a soap, or a costume drama, or even a nature programme.
It would be a breath of fresh air for the BBC (if it has to be publicly
> funded) to completely rethink its entire output: rip up the schedules,
> bin every series currently in production, bring in some new thinkers,
> and come up with a media format that has some relevance to the 21st century.
You clearly have some astonishing ideas that would revitalize the whole
of British broadcasting; why don't you share them with us? Or, even
better, submit them to the Innovation Labs, where they might help
to change the BBC into something more like what you want it to become.
Think the BBC is so insular in its thinking and so shallow in its
> production and performance pool, that it just can't see that the
> world is changing around it and that it wants to sit there in an
> Ivory Tower where it is forever 1956.
I really do not recognize the BBC you're describing at all; it's as
if you're railing against a long-defunct stereotype. After all, would
this Ivory Tower organization have created something like Backstage?
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