Well no argument there
And when you look at the media the rest of the world gets, we don't do so bad with the old BBC. Whilst I'm no fan of the licence fee there is a case to be made that, since few enough of us will voluntarily pay for what's good for us, a light tax so that we can be furnished with public service broadcasting that actually serves the public and not economic interests isn't entirely a bad thing.

It would be interesting to see if a better model that did deliver impartial news, excellently reported could be organised though I'm not sure on what economic basis it would operate. You'd also be up against AP and Reuters though, whose business is to supply the news media with news stories as few media organisations have sufficient resources to cover the lot.
(Dildo Bugger destroyed a ring on, Wed 7 Dec 2011, 16:04, Reply)