[OT] Worldcup 2006 ?

[dallam]

On Sat, Jun 10, 2006 at 12:49:37PM -0500, Alma J Wetzker wrote:
> If I want to get news, I usually tune in the BBC or some such.  (It is
> good to have useful radio equipment.)

The BBC is actually one of the things I won't miss *at all* when I move
back to the states. In MHO the BBC is worse than Microsoft.

Not only do I find their presentation of the *News* very slanted and biased,
I object to having to pay ?115 a year for a TV license for a color tv
(black and white is about ?80 I believe) to finance the BBC. While other
television networks here are dependent upon advertisments for their income,
the BBC has a free ride due to the TV licensing tax. Don't want to pay the
tax? The BBC employ folks who come to your home and demand entrance to count the
televisions in your house. A court summons follows and you can be fined ?1000
(roughly $1800). Oh, as well as the confiscation of your offending television
sets.

http://www.tvlicensing.co.uk/information/index.jsp

Sorry for the rant, but it really bothers me when the BBC comes up
as some standard for good news when they don't have to play by the
same rules as everyone else does.

Kind Regards,
Dallam
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