BBC has got much too big for its boots

PUBLIC Service Broadcasting by the BBC? Not in my estimation.

That might have been true years ago in the halcyon days of Bill and Ben the flowerpot men in the 1950s when first I watched, but not any more, in my view.

How can it be a public service when it broadcasts so much that is to the detriment of our society?

Example – “this film contains violence sex and strong language, with some drug abuse”.

You know and I know in a perfect society, the kids are off to bed.

You also know that in this world too often, that is not the case.

Oh there are some marvellous things on the telly, a window on the world for many, and there is much to admire in the output of the BBC.

However in my mind it has got much too big for its boots.

The sickening part is that we all have to pay for it – a levy on all in the country, unless of course you are over 75.

This huge organisation which owns and runs a myriad of magazines from Climbing to Historical, you name it and they will have a finger in the pie, is now hand wringing about the over-75s, and the loss of revenue. What a cheek!

We have all read in the press about the massive sums that they pay.

Over £1m to Gary Lineker, to Chris

Evans over £1m.

It is in my opinion a gravy train levied on us all, and it should stop.

Public Service Broadcasting? Take last Saturday night, December 1, 9.15, BBC4.

I know thank goodness, most are tuned in to other channels but the channel showed a deranged woman attacking with a knife, a young man sun bathing on a beach, she stabs him seven times.

There is blood everywhere, and it is shown in glorious colour.

Later on two young people take pills in order to experience a good time.

Public service, no, I don’t think so. Howard Robinson Ebbw Vale