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> The Prescott memo is just the latest observation of how the BBC has been used as a tool to propagate elite opinions and accomplish intelligence objectives. Of course you like it, it's for you.

I think this kind of criticism is in bad faith. Because there's an implication that you're comparing the BBC to some kind of ideal unbiased news outlet.

In reality, the alternatives to the BBC are much more obviously nefarious and make far less steps to remove bias.

If the BBC is a tool to "propagate elite opinions", then how would you describe Fox News, the Daily Mail, The Times (UK), or even CNN?

>>benrut+(OP)
>>how would you describe Fox News, the Daily Mail, The Times (UK), or even CNN?

"I'm not forced to pay for those via a tax" would be the key difference.

>>gadder+Md
You’d be forced to pay way more than the cost of the licence fee in punishing austerity if it was up to the Mail and the Times. The per capita cost of Brexit that they campaigned for far exceeds the licence fee.

>>gadder+Md
You are free to not use those services and hence opt out of payment. Of course you know that already - it’s just so that others recognise the bits you conveniently leave out!

>>matthe+Vl
People won't come round my house and verify I'm not secretly watching CNN without paying.

edit/reading/watching/

>>gadder+rn
Reading?

They never checked if I was reading the BBC website when I lived in the UK without paying the license fee.

Still don't now I'm outside the country.