*Ø* Blogmanac | Tories would close Beeb website
"The Conservative party would switch off a swath of the BBC's digital services, including its website and the youth channel BBC3, if it won the next general election.
The party's culture spokesman, John Whittingdale, told Guardian Unlimited Politics he was not persuaded' of the case for a public service website and that he was 'not convinced the BBC needs to do all the things it is doing at the present', including providing 'more and more channels'.
"'As a free-market Conservative, I will only support a nationalised industry if I'm persuaded that that is the only way to do it and if it were not nationalised it would not happen.'"
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Neo-con assault on independent media
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The BBC is without peer as a media organisation, largely because it's as big as the corporate giants (almost) but not commercial. The Beeb's website is also, in my opinion, one of the best in the world, and worth checking out regularly. If the BBC is in trouble with Blair's so-called Labor Party, imagine what a pack of neo-con Tories might do to it.
The BBC belongs not just to the UK, but to the world, both rich and poor, and is worthy of support. Let's hope the econo-rats (economic rationalists) don't have their way with its great site.
"The Conservative party would switch off a swath of the BBC's digital services, including its website and the youth channel BBC3, if it won the next general election.
The party's culture spokesman, John Whittingdale, told Guardian Unlimited Politics he was not persuaded' of the case for a public service website and that he was 'not convinced the BBC needs to do all the things it is doing at the present', including providing 'more and more channels'.
"'As a free-market Conservative, I will only support a nationalised industry if I'm persuaded that that is the only way to do it and if it were not nationalised it would not happen.'"
Source
Neo-con assault on independent media
Support your global Beeb
The BBC is without peer as a media organisation, largely because it's as big as the corporate giants (almost) but not commercial. The Beeb's website is also, in my opinion, one of the best in the world, and worth checking out regularly. If the BBC is in trouble with Blair's so-called Labor Party, imagine what a pack of neo-con Tories might do to it.
The BBC belongs not just to the UK, but to the world, both rich and poor, and is worthy of support. Let's hope the econo-rats (economic rationalists) don't have their way with its great site.
Pip Wilson posted item above at 10:10 PM | Permalink
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