BBC Blues

Via Drudge, another reason to turn the tv off:

"The BBC has been urged to pull a 'sick' new comedy show which features spoof news reports of Tony Blair being assassinated and a 9/11-style video of terrorists crashing an airliner into the Houses of Parliament."

"A BBC spokeswoman yesterday defended Time Trumpet, saying the sketches needed to be seen 'in the context of the whole series.' 'It is a satire set in the year 2031, looking back at the events and people of today,' he said. "

An MP is quoted and gets it wrong:

'The BBC receives a large amount of taxpayers' money and has a duty to use it responsibly. I can't see much comedy value in this at a time when all of us are at risk from terrorism.' The 'Terrorism Award' sketch features in episode three of the six-part series which starts tonight."

Actually, the amount the BBC receives is huge, over £3 billion pounds sterling (five and a half billion US dollars) every year from the tv tax called the tv licence.

It's also a great example of that British phenomenon, taxation without representation. If the BBC thinks it's hilarious using expensive cgi to show passenger planes flying into the Houses of Parliament, guess what, that's what is going to get made and broadcast.

It is illegal to refuse to pay the tv licence. It is not illegal to refuse to watch such drivel. The BBC track their audience figures. I hope they are dire.