A massive struggle session has appeared in the UK left with arguments over defending the BBC or not now that it has been announced that the tv license might be gone by 2027.

The factions seem to be:

A "But it makes good entertainment and documentaries and music and puts lgbt people in shows"

B "Yeah but none of that has anything to do with the extreme political harm it clearly does".

I am in faction B and have no idea how to get through to the first faction. Libs obviously also support the first faction.

I assume Hexbear being anti-treats lately would also be in faction B but could be wrong.

What are your thoughts on the topic overall?

  • heihachi [any]
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    3 years ago

    stopping the privatisation of the nhs isn't happening unless the left is in power either. that's what the comparison was. they're both things that would take power to implement

    i don't think theres any way to say whether the bbc is actively detrimental right now, comparable countries with almost entirely private media don't seem to have any better media space, and the mechanisms to change that media space seem much less realistic

    also i know people are talking about the uk becoming more polarised as though it's a good thing in this thread, but I think there is great utility in having a somewhat consensus reality shared by the majority of a population, and state broadcasting is the only way i see that happening