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ita marquess's avatar

We pay our BBC licence fee, but we stopped watching BBC TV many months ago. We used to listen to news regularly on Radio 4 and our local Radio Ulster. Not any more. I can't help sharing your sense of glee when reading about the COVID inquiry.

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Lucy's avatar

Same but Canadian style with the CBC and CBC radio. We canceled our cable as a result of their covid coverage.

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pedro laia's avatar

In portugal if you want internet by cable you also have to pay for cable tv 😑

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ita marquess's avatar

The licence fee is not mandatory but, as far as I know, you need to have paid it to access the many podcasts it produces. You also need it for the iPlayer which lets you view TV programmes on demand. I was a regular listener to the Food Programme and to a programme called 'More or Less' which seeks to investigate numbers that are bandied about in the media. We never missed an episode of a series of programmes on Radio Ulster which vividly portrayed life in the North of Ireland around the time of partition. There were some gripping and imaginative dramas on BBC 1 (TV). It's a pity that it has been used to manipulate public opinion. This is nothing new, but it has become very obvious since the start of the pandemic, and reaches into its war reporting.

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MH's avatar

Side comment, is the BBC License fee mandatory for citizens?

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ita marquess's avatar

I replied to your query, Maura, but it ended up as a reply to Lucy. Apologies!

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MH's avatar

Thx for the response. It's similar to needing cable here in the US. If we want to watch what we want to watch we pay a hefty price.

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K McMartin's avatar

Canada is the same as US. There will never be an admission of wrongdoing or what could have been done differently during COVID. Absolute smug silence.

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MH's avatar

Instead of wrong doing they are now coyly making comments about how their decisions were not really rooted in "science". Fauci has since come out and said the whole 6ft distance rule was loosely based on basically nothing. I hate that guy. If anyone is interested this is a really good interview with Dr. Peter McCollugh who talks about covid hysteria in a very non partisan way

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https://www.bitchute.com/video/vM0Yr1uCQoL0/

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James's avatar

Sounds like the MSM as well the government cannot be trusted. My view of life has been shattered.

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Lucy's avatar

I love Freddie Sayers.

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David Boothman's avatar

Both the BBC and the CBC have gained the general level of disrespect once reserved for the News Of The World. They are prime examples of the results of a degenerated education system; people most completely lacking in good judgement

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pedro laia's avatar

I dont think they lack good judgment, its a mix of money and going with the others

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MH's avatar

Obnoxious? No way. I love it. Bring it on. All these so-called experts need to be paraded out in front of some tribunal. No hiding behind social media.

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Username's avatar

Excellent article, but I can't make any sense out of the cartoon at the top. Who's the viewer, and who's on the TV screen?

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Paul D. Thacker's avatar

It's irrelevant who they are. There's a guy speaking on TV and the person sitting in the couch is talking to his wife who no longer exists, because she died over bad pandemic advice.

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Username's avatar

Thank you for that. The figure with the cup appeared to be talking either to the TV or to an empty room, and if the latter, it suggested insanity on his part, so the whole setting was unclear. I thought that maybe knowing who they were supposed to represent, might aid in understanding the cartoon.

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