Hahaha
"Welllll, the goberment literally owns us, but here read our charter where we say that we are MUHHH independent and MUHHH investigate and MUHHHH criticize the goberment"
Try this bullshit on someone who'll fall for it. Also:
An anonymous listener noticed the BBC has been “quietly editing repeats of shows over the past few years to be more in keeping with social mores.” In response, the BBC said “the vast majority of our audience” would want that. If true, that’s appalling.
In the age of streaming, this is a particularly thorny area, because, in the absence of widely distributed copies of now-archived material, when the BBC (or any broadcaster) makes “edits,” those edits effectively become permanent.
And it’s even more of a problem with the BBC, because the BBC is owned by the British government, which means its archives are publicly owned. The BBC says its listeners want edits, but, if so, why has it been making them in secret?
If, in an attempt to protect its reputation and placate the arbiters of taste, the BBC is incapable of curating and exhibiting its archives without attempting to bringing them “up to date,” then, as a matter of priority, they must be placed elsewhere.
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Everyone knows how BBC and the British Government protected Savile like a saint.