Tuesday, August 26, 2003
Surely there should be some sort of rule in the Conservative Party about not talking about things they don't understand? If the Tories somehow won the next election they'd shut down the BBC's website and BBC3. As a result of their own study of the station after Iain Duncan-Smith decided that it was less effort to claim the BBC was biased against the Tories than make any effort to attack the Government, we get gems like:
"The BBC cannot continue doing what it's always done when everything around it in the broadcasting world has ultimately changed."
Well, admittedly the internet is quite old now, but digital TV is relatively new, so I'm not sure how 'setting up digital TV channels' counts as 'doing what the BBC has always done' as it was a fair old time since they even set up a terrestrial station.
"But I am not persuaded that there is necessarily a case for a public service website. I'm not persuaded that anything on the BBC site could not be provided elsewhere, [for instance] the newspapers are mostly providing sites, which provide news and comment."
I must say that I'm not persuaded that there is necessarily a case for the Conservative party, their policies can be provided elsewhere, [for instance] the Labour Party are mostly providing policies which follow Conservative doctrine.
"The BBC cannot continue doing what it's always done when everything around it in the broadcasting world has ultimately changed."
Well, admittedly the internet is quite old now, but digital TV is relatively new, so I'm not sure how 'setting up digital TV channels' counts as 'doing what the BBC has always done' as it was a fair old time since they even set up a terrestrial station.
"But I am not persuaded that there is necessarily a case for a public service website. I'm not persuaded that anything on the BBC site could not be provided elsewhere, [for instance] the newspapers are mostly providing sites, which provide news and comment."
I must say that I'm not persuaded that there is necessarily a case for the Conservative party, their policies can be provided elsewhere, [for instance] the Labour Party are mostly providing policies which follow Conservative doctrine.
