³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ in the news, Friday
The Independent: Former secretary of state for culture, media and sport, Chris Smith on the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ licence fee settlement. ()
The Guardian: Comments that the licence fee announcement was eclipsed by Big Brother controversy. ()
Comments
It is right that the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ should be adequately funded by public money, but the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ must do two things; first it must cease being obsessed with the ratings and competing with the commerical TV Stations. High quality documentaries and dramas must not compete with the dreadful Big Brother and other moronic programmes.
The ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ must not pay astronomical salaries to flippant but generally mediocre presenters who cannot write one paragraph in grammatical English.
I am appaulled at the linguring nature of your reporting of the trivial matter of Jade's racist comments on a programme, Big Brother, who's sole purpose is to encourage sensationalism. Although her comments may have warrented a programme filler on a day short on proper news it does not warrent the coverage of a lead artical on prime time news, particularly if all you are going to do is indulge a sniverling perthetic creature to the detrement of the rest of us. Nor does it warrent prolonged coverage, to date you have managed to squeeze out several days of programme fillers, or has the ³ÉÈËÂÛ̳ lowered their standards such that you are only interested in putting on a show, as some of you link presenters have refered to the news, or are you still interested in providing a programme of in depth news coverage, which is becoming more scace as time goes on - I hope that we have now seen the last of Jade's inapropriate comments and you can return to more news worthy journalism or are you going to remain at the journalistic standards of the Sun or News of the World