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Furry,
Agreed. BBC content is good. Not always my thing but the quality is great. My scrooging over forced payment was about the thought of forced homage to U.S. stations. No thanks. The only thing we have close to the BBC is PBS, and their schedule is roughly:
40% childrens' programming (hey, I grew up with it)
20% BBC content
20% NOVA, News, Musical Performances, etc. (I want THIS channel.)
5% Antiques Roadshow
5% Advertisements for Antiques Roadshow
10% requests for contributions.
I'd pay the BBC license.
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There are a vast number of people who are uninformed and heavily propagandized, but fundamentally decent. The propaganda that inundates them is effective when unchallenged, but much of it goes only skin deep. If they can be brought to raise questions and apply their decent instincts and basic intelligence, many people quickly escape the confines of the doctrinal system and are willing to do something to help others who are really suffering and oppressed." -Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media, p. 195
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