] A couple of weeks ago, I wrote that a lot of people
] seemed to be pretty unhappy with the BBC's coverage of
] the war, and I linked the BBC's attitudes - odd, I
] thought, for the national network of a nation at war - to
] the shared prejudices of the "New Class" of
] state-supported bureaucrats and their ilk.
]
]
] Since then, things have only gotten worse for the Beeb.
] Andrew Sullivan has kept up the pressure. The BBC has
] even been forced to respond, taking the absurd position
] that:
]
]
] The BBC is not state-funded. We are publicly funded
] through a license fee paid by every household in the
] United Kingdom. The British public, not the government of
] the day, owns the BBC, and it is to the British public we
] are accountable.
]
]
] Get that? They're not state-funded, they're just paid for
] by a mandatory tax that the government collects, and
] about which the taxpayers have no choice. Now if the
] British television viewers got to choose whether their
] "license fee" went to the BBC, or to some competing
] service, things might be different - and so might the
] BBC. But that's not how it works, and quite a few people
] - by no means all of them on the right - are unhappy with
] the BBC's slant....