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I would happily pay for a BBC that was maintained by voluntary subscriptions. I would pay the £130 odd per annum that I’m currently charged for the compulsory licence tax and I’d even pay a little more. At a subscription rate of around £15 per month, the BBC’s output of drama, current affairs programmes, documentaries, comedies, wild life and children’s programmes would still represent the greatest bargain in television. My children tell me that I should pay the money for Doctor Who alone.

But the BBC is not financed by voluntary subscription, it’s financed by a tax on every television watching household in the UK. And for a service paid for by a national tax we need more than just great programming. We need truth, integrity and neutrality. Here the BBC falls short and, as is evidenced by the links below (and there are hundreds more where they came from), it’s been falling for quite some time.

BBC’s grovelling apology to Queen over ‘tantrum’ film
BBC caught with pants down
The BBC exposed
The BBC - time for a rethink?
…what the BBC says and what the BBC means
Biased BBC
BBC refuses to remove neo-Nazi, racist lies from its message board
Who’d trust Auntie now?

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