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Rosencrantz · 23-02-2008, 12:04

I can't help but feel that the journalistic and documentary integrity of the BBC would be damaged by privatization. Like someone quite correctly pointed out earlier, documentary channels want things about cuddly monkeys and giant squid fighting whales, stuff to draw the average goon away from Neighbours (I love Neighbours, ha) and onto things that are cute or fight.

Although we do have some of these now, I think stuff like Big Cat Diary or Springwatch or some of Attenborough's documentaries would get immediately scrapped. And imagine BBC news reporting Paris Hilton over something like a foreign political assassination just because they needed to ratings to stay afloat? Do we, as a country, honestly want to put our name to a travesty like that?

23-02-2008, 12:04	#91
Rosencrantz Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Hull Posts: 52 Liked: 0 times Rep Power: 0	Re: TV Licence I can't help but feel that the journalistic and documentary integrity of the BBC would be damaged by privatization. Like someone quite correctly pointed out earlier, documentary channels want things about cuddly monkeys and giant squid fighting whales, stuff to draw the average goon away from Neighbours (I love Neighbours, ha) and onto things that are cute or fight. Although we do have some of these now, I think stuff like Big Cat Diary or Springwatch or some of Attenborough's documentaries would get immediately scrapped. And imagine BBC news reporting Paris Hilton over something like a foreign political assassination just because they needed to ratings to stay afloat? Do we, as a country, honestly want to put our name to a travesty like that?