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British Ufies: What the heck is a tv licence? | by farfalla | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Yep, it is true that they have licensing for TVs. | by shorty82 | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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The concept of needing a license to watch... | by Dshade | 2005-11-25 08:20:27 |
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You -want- to watch adverts? | by Didactylos | 2005-11-25 08:31:02 |
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Ads are more fair. | by shorty82 | 2005-11-25 08:37:31 |
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Don't forget, this is english television | by Gargravarr | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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It *legally* must remain impartial? | by MatthewDBA | 2005-11-25 09:51:38 |
| It's in it's charter (so it's sort of legally) |
by Gargravarr |
2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
The [board of governors of the] BBC is royallychartered to do certain things, amongst them:
"monitor and supervise the [BBC]'s fulfilment of its legal and contractual obligations and in particular (but without limitation) to:-
ensure that the BBC and its employees and all programme makers engaged by the [BBC] comply with the provisions of any code which the BBC is required to draw up for the treatment of controversial subjects with due accuracy and impartiality and comply with any other code or guidelines applicable to programme content and standards. "
though it's put better in the "agreement to the charter":
"(c) contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world to support fair
and informed debate at local, regional and national levels; "
The BBC stakes it's reputation on it's impartiality, and when anything is found to be false, there's massive uproar and investigation. The other news organisations in the UK have a field day, of course.
the BBC is and isn't a governemnt thing. It is tied to the governement and there are annual government reports to do with the BBC, but it's a more of a check and balances thing, not a control method. It's mainly to do with whether or not the license fee is being used appropriately. BBC staff are not government employees, so they have no interest in being soft on the government (they grilled Blair over the war in Iraq a bit).
I agree that in the US this probably wouldn't work as people would think it's just a government puppet.
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No it wouldn't work in the US | by MatthewDBA | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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hmm. that's not good | by Gargravarr | 2005-11-25 12:22:57 |
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A very well timed example.. | by Gargravarr | 2006-11-19 12:55:59 |
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Its tried in the US Its called public broadcasting | by joecrouse | 2005-11-26 23:19:42 |
