BBC Licence Fee

The BBC Licence Fee may have been a sensible way of financing a public broadcast company when it was set up in 1927 but it isn't a sensible method of financing the BBC in this day and age. The Licence Fee has given the BBC the idea that it can ignore the views of its paymasters as anyone who owns a television has to pay the fee whether they watch the BBC or approve of its output. No other business would be allowed to get away with this and quite rightly so too. In the beginning the BBC was much more careful about its impartiality but now makes no pretence as to where its preferences lie, be it with the  Labour Party, the Unions, the Palestinians, the Democrats, Global Warming, the EU or whatever. There is a blog called Biased BBC which records the daily transgressions by the BBC of its impartiality obligation. It is an outrage that those of us on the right should be forced to pay for the constant BBC left wing propaganda. Other broadcasters that raise their revenue either directly from viewers or from advertisers have to take account of the views of their audiences since if they fail to do so they know they will lose income. The government must change the law to ensure that there is a level playing field between all broadcasters including the BBC. To do this the BBC should at least have its structure changed to make it a company that can be floated on the Stock Exchange. If nothing else is done the market will do the rest overtime since the profits made by the BBC each year will reflect its popularity and that popularity will be affected by the level of attention it pays to what its viewers think. It is doubtful for example that if the BBC were a broadcast company like any other that it would allow the kind of mindless propaganda commented on by the Biased BBC blog today here. Everyone should write to their MP to ask him/her to ask the government to introduce the appropriate legislation.