Feb
26

Call me crrraaazy. But axing 6 Music and cutting back on the BBC website seem like two of the last things the Beeb should be doing. Clearly cut-backs need to be made, (what with the recession and shit-stains like Dan Hannan not paying his TV License) but there is no way whole services need to go. Though frankly I think the BBC Asian network was a misconcieved idea from the outset; if the BBC isn’t producing content that appeals to the British Asian community within its mainstream broadcasts then surely it’s doing something wrong. Or British Asians are being intentionally resistive — though I doubt this is the case. The problem is the BBC Asian network is a good operation, producing excellent shows — as opposed to axing it why don’t te beeb consider selling it? The BBC website, for all its many faults, is still an excellent resource — and one of the few places on the web one can find, at least vaguely objective news. And 6 Music is, in my opinion, what Radio 1 should sound like. If they really wanted to save money they should axe Radio 1 and rebadge 6 Music as Radio 1. Have you listened to Radio 1 recently? For an organisation that has the words British and Broadcasting in its name — it doesn’t half peddle a lot of autotuned American crap. And it’s not like they need to. The BBC are one of the few people who don’t need to pander to the American market. The only good news to come out of this review, aimed squarely at the ‘what the fuck are we going to do if the cunting Murdoch noshing Tories get in?’ scenario, is that every news piece is going to contain a hyperlink to funnel more traffic to commercial rivals. Though I’m willing to bet their partners list will be more heavily guarded than a nun’s chuff. Still, it’s a minor concession in the right direction. How about the beeb consider cuts in their off-shore operations? BBC Persia for example? Or how about slicing those proposterous managment sallaries. But no, as per with the beeb the management will be maintained in glorious isolation while the talent and the output suffer the pains of cut-backs.

Call me crrraaazy. But axing 6 Music and cutting back on the BBC website seem like two of the last things the Beeb should be doing. Clearly cut-backs need to be made, (what with the recession and shit-stains like Dan Hannan not paying his TV License) but there is no way whole services need to go.

Though frankly I think the BBC Asian network was a misconcieved idea from the outset; if the BBC isn’t producing content that appeals to the British Asian community within its mainstream broadcasts then surely it’s doing something wrong. Or British Asians are being intentionally resistive — though I doubt this is the case. The problem is the BBC Asian network is a good operation, producing excellent shows — as opposed to axing it why don’t te beeb consider selling it?

The BBC website, for all its many faults, is still an excellent resource — and one of the few places on the web one can find, at least vaguely objective news. And 6 Music is, in my opinion, what Radio 1 should sound like. If they really wanted to save money they should axe Radio 1 and rebadge 6 Music as Radio 1.

Have you listened to Radio 1 recently? For an organisation that has the words British and Broadcasting in its name — it doesn’t half peddle a lot of autotuned American crap. And it’s not like they need to. The BBC are one of the few people who don’t need to pander to the American market.

The only good news to come out of this review, aimed squarely at the ‘what the fuck are we going to do if the cunting Murdoch noshing Tories get in?’ scenario, is that every news piece is going to contain a hyperlink to funnel more traffic to commercial rivals. Though I’m willing to bet their partners list will be more heavily guarded than a nun’s chuff. Still, it’s a minor concession in the right direction.

How about the beeb consider cuts in their off-shore operations? BBC Persia for example? Or how about slicing those proposterous managment sallaries.

But no, as per with the beeb the management will be maintained in glorious isolation while the talent and the output suffer the pains of cut-backs.

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