Time for a Churchill to take on menace of BBC

From: David Marshall, Park Drive West, Mirfield.

ISN’T it about time that we all stopped believing that the BBC is the fount of all unbiased, evenhanded and fair news reporting?

This monster of a corporation feeding off what is no more than a tax on viewing and viewers needs to begin to look very carefully at how prudent they are with all this revenue they receive.

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There has only to be some earth shattering news somewhere on the globe to have the usual UK suspects leaving their desks in the UK and jetting off to stand up to their knees in floods, earthquakes and famines.

We all know however that 
the BBC have perfectly competent reporters in every country in the world but this doesn’t stop the deployment of the ‘globetrotters’.

It always amazes me how failed politicians, the likes of ex-MP and ex-Hong Kong governor Chris Patten drop nicely into the top job at the BBC. No one looked shiftier than Chris Patten standing next to his appointee George Entwistle when he was falling on his sword cushioned of course by a whole year’s salary plus benefits for 50 or so working days.

I didn’t want to mention the Savile affair but I think it most odd that over the 30 years of Savile’s antics that not one director-general had any inkling as to what was going on.

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There is so much talk nowadays about failing institutions eg the press, the banks, the police the BBC and who best it would be to oversee radical changes to such organisations.

It is clear that they are not capable of doing it themselves. It’s a real pity that there are no statesmen in government today who could shoulder such tasks. I suppose it’s too much to hope that a ‘Churchill’ may arise to put country before party politics bias and greed.

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