Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee
Is there a campaign anywhere to abolish the license fee? Anyone want tostart one? On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:12 +0100 11/10/07, Jason Cartwright wrote: Well, like it or not big corps are often the gatekeepers sat between the audience masses and content owners. That doesn't seem to be changing (*cough* Google). J And there you have the case in point. Auntie, for better or worse, is the best we have. Radio, television, and now Internet. BBC Worldservice is a world brand, because of the quality and the veracity of the content. It never had to sell itself, it just was on the only voice of authority and truth that reason so many nations in the world. The masses can have the mass media. I want quality. At the moment for me that means Radio 4. I don't do telly at the moment. Public service broadcasting (the BBC, Channel 4 etc) cannot and should not compete in the market place. Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee
There probably is. And no. I would sell my house and all my possessions to help the BBC. Cheers, Rich. On 10/12/07, dantes inferno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a campaign anywhere to abolish the license fee? Anyone want tostart one? On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:12 +0100 11/10/07, Jason Cartwright wrote: Well, like it or not big corps are often the gatekeepers sat between the audience masses and content owners. That doesn't seem to be changing (*cough* Google). J And there you have the case in point. Auntie, for better or worse, is the best we have. Radio, television, and now Internet. BBC Worldservice is a world brand, because of the quality and the veracity of the content. It never had to sell itself, it just was on the only voice of authority and truth that reason so many nations in the world. The masses can have the mass media. I want quality. At the moment for me that means Radio 4. I don't do telly at the moment. Public service broadcasting (the BBC, Channel 4 etc) cannot and should not compete in the market place. Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- SilverDisc Ltd is registered in England no. 2798073 Registered address: 4 Swallow Court, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6XX
Re: [backstage] Thoughts from a previous BBC employee
Like democracy, the licence fee is the least worst way of having a BBC. Other opinions are available. On 12/10/2007, Richard Lockwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There probably is. And no. I would sell my house and all my possessions to help the BBC. Cheers, Rich. On 10/12/07, dantes inferno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a campaign anywhere to abolish the license fee? Anyone want tostart one? On 11/10/2007, Gordon Joly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 17:12 +0100 11/10/07, Jason Cartwright wrote: Well, like it or not big corps are often the gatekeepers sat between the audience masses and content owners. That doesn't seem to be changing (*cough* Google). J And there you have the case in point. Auntie, for better or worse, is the best we have. Radio, television, and now Internet. BBC Worldservice is a world brand, because of the quality and the veracity of the content. It never had to sell itself, it just was on the only voice of authority and truth that reason so many nations in the world. The masses can have the mass media. I want quality. At the moment for me that means Radio 4. I don't do telly at the moment. Public service broadcasting (the BBC, Channel 4 etc) cannot and should not compete in the market place. Gordo -- Think Feynman/ http://pobox.com/~gordo/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]/// - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html . Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/ -- SilverDisc Ltd is registered in England no. 2798073 Registered address: 4 Swallow Court, Kettering, Northamptonshire, NN15 6XX -- Please email me back if you need any more help. Brian Butterworth www.ukfree.tv
[backstage] flash accessibility
Some BBC staff have been known to trumpet the accessibility features of flash. the BBC is also known to have tied itself into this commercial vendor. Can someone explain why on my OS X machine at least the supposedly switch accessible: http://www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/inthenightgarden/flash/index.shtml space and return don't work in any browser and IE crashes cheers Jonathan Chetwynd Accessibility Consultant on Media Literacy and the Internet - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
