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BBC licence fee to be abolished in 2027 and funding frozen
Government announcement will force broadcaster to make deep cuts to its programme budgets
www.theguardian.com
Obviously another step by the Tories toward selling the BBC using the old trick of starving an organisation of funding, blaming shortcomings on public ownership, and claiming it would be better run privately.
Honestly though I'm not sure I care too much in this particular case. The BBC has always to a large extent been a government mouthpiece full of corruption and other bullshit but in the past ten years this has accelerated to an extent that I don't think it is possible to reform the ingrained neoliberal culture away. Not to mention the blatant transphobia.
Edit: But yeah that's the result of government meddling and the BBC does provide public services and has plenty of (intellectual) property of use to the public so I probably do care. But not as much as Royal Mail or the NHS. Which is exactly what the government wants lol.
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