Quote Originally Posted by ramAnag View Post
Again you have a point, but it was you that introduced into the debate us all having to pay for the licence fee and I was just pointing out that, in measurable terms, subscription via the licence fee costs around 48p per day (I can actually think of nothing offering better value) whereas daily subscription to the Daily Telegraph costs around 3.64 per day.

When you consider what the two figures entitle you to there really is no comparison and when you consider that the BBC, with all that it produces and a far greater audience, has had to make many fewer ‘corrections’ than the Telegraph - some were far from ‘minor league’ - then it is perhaps time to stop the BBC bashing.

As regards the Trump matter specifically. I totally agree with their stance today. Apologise for the clumsy, unprofessional, slightly misleading and foolish editing, but tell him to go to hell (albeit politely) as far as recompense for reputational damage is concerned.
The key words are ?have to?. Unless one is particularly sneaky in avoiding all the transmission types that require the license fee to be paid, or is happy to break the law, then the license fee is pretty much compulsory, which of course is not the case with the Telelegraph or any other newspaper. Therefore I and many others feel there is a greater duty of care/ higher bar for BBC. You clearly feel it is reaching that bar, I, and after increasingly (popular phrase alert) fact checking things I have a personal doubt about, do not. I?m nowhere near thinking BBC has an overarching ?agenda? beyond impartiality but there are clear areas where some sort of influence is applied which skews the message. The recent leaked report confirms that but imo it only scratches the surface in examples given. Just my observation