Culture secretary also says corporation’s approach to impartiality drives him ‘insane’ in talk to Conservative students
John Whittingdale has said the BBC’s approach to impartiality drives him “insane and joked approximately abolishing the corporation in a talk at Cambridge University’s Conservative Association. In a marked departure from careful public statements made ahead of the publication of a white paper on the next BBC charter,the culture secretary also indicated his commitment to hand allotment of the licence fee to external organisations to make programming such as children’s TV, arts coverage and local news. “There is a case for having some plurality, or so that the decision as to what programmes are commissioned isn’t exclusively taken by the small group of commissioning editors at the BBC,” he said.
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Source: theguardian.com