The issue of executive pay and expenses at the BBC has become a political football again today and I have read articles in both the Evening Standard and The Grauniad. I assume this middle class outrage is the most reasonable of the no doubt loud public outcry with the Mail and Express probably calling for mass deportations or lynchings over the issue.
I personally feel that the British do rather well out of their state funded broadcaster. Looking to other large scale democracies it is dissapointing to see the level of debate, particularly political, that comes from an entirely free market press. If you have any issues with this statement please see Fox News. In the same way that perhaps only NPR can be held up in The States, the BBC is a bastion of good journalism and public service content.
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