OT: The BBC and TV tax revisited

[Robert Gonzalez]

Well, first of all, I am amazed at the subjects that get discussed here 
in pdml.  Somehow the list got onto a thread a very short time ago about 
taxing British citizens to finance the BBC.

As if the list is all prescient, all of a sudden the BBC is big world 
news due to the scathing commentary by Lord Hutton accusing the BBC's 
Board of Governers of basically sleeping on the job during the BBC's 
Blair Blunder.

It was very interesting to hear on the radio commentary about how this 
is going to go over with the British public, since <rough quote> "The 
British Broadcasting Corporation is a publicly funded corporation via 
taxation and there is some expectation of broadcast responsibility...".

I heard that the chairman of the Board of Governers has stepped down 
after the news today and a couple of others are also considering it.  I 
am curious to hear from our British PDML's if this is a big deal in 
England or if the american radio has blown it out of proportion again...