Stephen Fry on the BBC
Posted on May 9th, 2008 by timalmond
“The BBC enriches the country in ways we will only discover when it has gone and it is too late to build it back up again,” the writer and comedian said.
That’s just irrational nonsense. There’s no logical reason why we couldn’t, if we so decided, re-create the BBC after we’ve got rid of it.
“It should be as closely scrutinised as possible of course, value for money, due humility and all that, but to reduce its economies of scale, its artistic social and national reach for misbegotten reasons of ideology or thrift would be a tragedy,” he added.
Yes. Let’s force ITV-watching families on low income to pay for the millionaires who work for the BBC. They’re such children, after all.
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Kill him.