Banal, biased BBC
From Mr Jonathan Miller Sir: Stephen Glover writes (Media studies, 30 December) that all decent people should support the BBC' before going on to be surprised that it is treating the Tories badly. Consider me indecent.
The BBC is not accountable to those who pay for it, but to Labour ministers. Its governors are not selected by viewers and listeners but by the government (NB the latest recruit. Gavyn Davies, friend of Gordon Brown). The BBC is not independent but entirely dependent on the government, which permits it to collect a hypothecated tax on viewers and listeners. People go to prison for not paying.
In such circumstances the BBC will always be sympathetic to any government that promises to keep the money coming and hostile to any opposition that threatens or even questions its privileged status.
Glover says the corporation still produces some outstanding programmes, but mainly it is a torrent of banal drivel and tendentious, sanitised news.
The BBC is not a public broadcaster but a government broadcaster. I do not believe that I am alone in resenting having to pay for this.
Jonathan Miller
Alfold, Surrey
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