Comments on: Democracy, markets and the BBC http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/democracy-markets-and-the-bbc/ a blog about news and stuff Thu, 10 May 2012 16:11:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Adrian Monck http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/democracy-markets-and-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-740 Adrian Monck Mon, 02 Jun 2008 20:58:39 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=978#comment-740 <b>@Nick</b> Democracy <i>is</i> the point of democracy. It doesn't 'do' much for the UK as a whole, but I haven't heard many people advancing that as an argument for dispensing with it. Reforming it, maybe... @Nick Democracy is the point of democracy.

It doesn’t ‘do’ much for the UK as a whole, but I haven’t heard many people advancing that as an argument for dispensing with it. Reforming it, maybe…

]]> By: Nick Reynolds (BBC) http://adrianmonck.com/2008/05/democracy-markets-and-the-bbc/comment-page-1/#comment-736 Nick Reynolds (BBC) Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:28:58 +0000 http://adrianmonck.com/?p=978#comment-736 Giving licence fee payers a share in the governance of the BBC wouldn't change much. The BBC is not a government department - it doesn't need to be "democratic" in this way. It's not the NHS - its a creative, media organisation. Licence fee payers don't care that much about governance and seem to be happy with what they currently have got. What they do care about is content, programmes, creativity. They need to be given a share in the BBC's creativity, not its governance. They need to be let in so that they are a part of the creative process, not the governance. Giving licence fee payers a share in the governance of the BBC wouldn’t change much. The BBC is not a government department — it doesn’t need to be “democratic” in this way. It’s not the NHS — its a creative, media organisation.

Licence fee payers don’t care that much about governance and seem to be happy with what they currently have got. What they do care about is content, programmes, creativity. They need to be given a share in the BBC’s creativity, not its governance. They need to be let in so that they are a part of the creative process, not the governance.

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