An Apology

The Stats on this blog tell me that on average there are 155 views per month from US sites a further 45 from Australian sites and a smattering of hits from NZ, India & others.

It pains me therefore to apologies for the BBC's output on the Queens jubilee


To put you in the Picture ( no pun intended ) many many years ago while the US opened up their airways to the private sector the UK went down the road of a Government appointed broadcaster.

This, in a strange form still exists today (BBC), US readers may find it hard to believe but it brings with it a
license fee, Yes in the UK each house holder has to pay for a TV receiving license
( in 2012 this costs £145 or $225 ) and this is paid each year.

Before you ask, most stations are commercial (with adverts), this a started a state controlled monitoring
system of letters reminding you to pay and a fleet of detector vans, yes detector vans driving around detecting unlicensed TV's then fining the owners in a court of Law.

But I distract 


Older folk will remember the BBC from the WW2 or from old film clips, the BBC was a rock for the people of the world, even Lord Reith once said "the BBC's purpose was, in three words: educate, inform, entertain". and that's how it was.


Why the BBC did not ask
Jennie Bond , Michael Aspel,Kate Adie , Joan Bakewell, Trevor McDonald, Anna Ford.
and last and I feel the best Richard Dimbleby's sons, all excellent with gravitas to compare the programs
I just don't know..

What the BBC put on was I feel was a kick in the teeth to our Queen,the whole process is steeped in history but it didn't get a mention even the flotilla consisted of some of the little Dunkirk small ships and everything afloat on the Thames that day had an historic story to tell.

One presenter forgot the name of an old Sailor during the interview another said the upper deck of a boat was "the first floor" I would be terrified to ask them were the poop deck was.



Is it time to scrap the license fee and look again at the BBC ? 
and
where's the educate, inform, entertain gone ?


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/the_queens_diamond_jubilee/9314625/BBC-gets-2500-complaints-for-Diamond-Jubilee-coverage-as-former-controller-admits-they-wont-win-any-BAFTAs.html