I don't think that it's clear whether there is any political bias in broad left/right terms here. In general, it's media outlets like the Daily Mail that particularly have a bee in their bonnet about the BBC. It's strange, because I'm certain that the average Daily Mail reader watches an awful lot of BBC programming. In a separate issue, someone I know well has documented an example of the kind of thing the Mail can get up to, surrounding the recent death of Margaret Thatcher: http://www.mediauk.com/newspapers/discussions/print-chatter/daily-mail-deliberately-misleading-readers
I would guess, but in no way be certain, that a number of the people filming these clips, do indeed have a television, and therefore are breaking the law. How that can be proved a separate matter. I imagine similar things go on with other taxes local and national. What I would say is that some of the people featured don't seem to be particularly pleasant. I imagine it's one thing dealing with a nasty debt collector, but broadly speaking these people seemed quite reasonable. The paedophile reference certainly refers to the Jimmy Savile scandal. There are some odd loopholes surrounding the BBC licence fee which do need addressing in a digital age. As it stands, I don't need a licence to watch catch-up programming via the iPlayer. But I *do* need a licence to watch live programming via the iPlayer! Certainly amongst the young/student age group, it's now not unusual for people not to own a television set but watch all their TV online. So this begins to become a problem in terms of revenue collection. I suspect changes may be coming... Adam On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 5:00 PM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]>wrote: > Lately, for some reason the YouTube "Recommended for You" E-mails I get > have included this video on how to try to dodge the guy who comes to > collect the license fee that keeps the BBC from having to run ads or pledge > drives: > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfHRhXW1hno&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs > > I do know that people have always tried to dodge the license fee and that > it may've been more widespread some years ago than it is now. The poster, > "BantheBBC," says that he is presenting "A channel dedicated to exposing > BBC bias, censorship, extortion and paedophilia" (that's a reference to the > Jimmy Savile affair, I assume). I can't really tell from the description > to the clip, but are these guys (who I'm sure are a very small minority) > extreme right, extreme left or both? I call upon our British > correspondents for any thoughts. > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
