People used to be jailed for robbing milk and bread to feed their starving families!
Now compare that to going to jail or prosecution for non payment of the TV licence fee.
At the same time as the courts are prosecuting thousands of the public for non payment of the TV licence, the management of the national TV broadcaster squandered funds on a number of fronts.
If it wasn’t on gifts, it was on shows no one wants to watch. Worse still, payments were made to management staff that do not meet the minimum standard of a public broadcaster who purport to represent the interests of the public. Now, some of these same people refuse to come before government committees to answer questions.
There should be no debate about the public paying a licence fee and there should be no debate about exchequer funding, the public would end up paying one way or the other and that is not in their interests especially in light of information technologies that are replacing TV broadcasting.
There is a lot of crap, especially from politicians about funding public interest broadcasting, yet the ‘national’ broadcaster is sitting on substantial assets that should be sold. If the ‘national’ broadcaster business model cannot survive financially, then it should either be reconfigured or folded in the national interests. How come a non public funded broadcaster can more than compete, yet operate out of industrial space and still represent public interests in their TV broadcasts?
Is it time the courts, the same courts that prosecute 1000s of the public for non payment of the TV licence fee, investigate the national broadcaster management, especially those that refuse to go before government committees and where there is criminal activity, prosecute to the full extent of the law, or are we all not equal in the eyes of the law?
Now compare that to going to jail or prosecution for non payment of the TV licence fee.
At the same time as the courts are prosecuting thousands of the public for non payment of the TV licence, the management of the national TV broadcaster squandered funds on a number of fronts.
If it wasn’t on gifts, it was on shows no one wants to watch. Worse still, payments were made to management staff that do not meet the minimum standard of a public broadcaster who purport to represent the interests of the public. Now, some of these same people refuse to come before government committees to answer questions.
There should be no debate about the public paying a licence fee and there should be no debate about exchequer funding, the public would end up paying one way or the other and that is not in their interests especially in light of information technologies that are replacing TV broadcasting.
There is a lot of crap, especially from politicians about funding public interest broadcasting, yet the ‘national’ broadcaster is sitting on substantial assets that should be sold. If the ‘national’ broadcaster business model cannot survive financially, then it should either be reconfigured or folded in the national interests. How come a non public funded broadcaster can more than compete, yet operate out of industrial space and still represent public interests in their TV broadcasts?
Is it time the courts, the same courts that prosecute 1000s of the public for non payment of the TV licence fee, investigate the national broadcaster management, especially those that refuse to go before government committees and where there is criminal activity, prosecute to the full extent of the law, or are we all not equal in the eyes of the law?