Stand up for the BBC - stop the cuts
add your name to stand up for the BBC
The BBC is a great British institution, respected the world over. We don't want to see it undermined.
This means we must:
- Protect the BBC's funding by preserving the licence fee, and the clarity that comes with the current funding model.
- Help the BBC develop by putting first value for money and quality of service for licence fee payers, not the commercial interests of rival media companies.
- Ensure the BBC's independence by preventing politicians from interfering in its day-to-day running, keeping the corporation impartial and independent, working in the best interests of and accountable to the British people.
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Together we can make a stand and let everyone know that as licence fee payers, we support the BBC. If enough of us get together then the politicians will hear and see the public rallying around the BBC, regardless of the slings and arrows hurled in its direction by its competitors.
Thousands of members responded to a poll asking if it was right for 38 Degrees to stand up for the BBC, and there was overwhelming support for a campaign. Now is our chance to have our voices heard and make sure that no Government will undermine our BBC.
Have you noticed the constant drip-drip of criticism the BBC is receiving? For such a much-loved national institution it gets a lot of criticism in the media - be it for executive pay, a spuriously whipped-up scandal, or simply being labeled an 'Orwellian' Soviet-style state broadcaster by none other than James Murdoch. That's right, the son of the man that owns Fox news has the audacity to question the fairness and impartiality of the BBC's news coverage.
Of course, it's no coincidence that the BBC's main critics lie within the very media organisations who stand to gain the most should the corporation have its wings clipped.
