Of course it has changed. When I was a child there were only three channels and you’d have the national anthem at the end of the day. Along with that annoying test card. So we only had three channels and you still had to pay the licence. Now we have many channels, radio stations, international presence. I honestly don’t know what people are moaning about. They seem to be carried away with the crowd and not really looking at how lucky we are to have quality viewing, which it still is by the way.
If the news is biased then check out other equally biased news agencies. You can watch any version of the news you want these days to suit your politics but this current campaign is truly pathetic and David Dimbleby has given his take on the matter today.
Most of those channels, including BBC1 are not watched by many people, mainly because most of the programmes are crap.
There are now so many channels and radio stations that the only way they can survive is by applying a compulsory tax to everyone with a telly.
The big change to which I was referring is the fact that it is now a strongly-biased left wing organisation. By refusing to show such things as French riots on the news, they are complicit in political bias in attempting to cover up activities which they don’t want us to know about.
How can the BBC now be regarded as our ‘national broadcaster’?
Incidentally, they have always had an international presence: the World Service. I don’t listen to that but, for all I know, that is also politically biased.
Perhaps it was the adverts your dad disapproved of.
I didn’t really know or care what my dad was complaining about. The news on bbc and on itv looked the same to me. Maybe my dad had a thing about the bbc being state owns. Communism, Cold-war propaganda, strange days.
I await with interest the forthcoming publication by the Mary Whitehouse brigade listing both acceptable and unacceptable words and phrases for public usage. :roll:
Incredible that this investigation was launched because of a single ridiculous complaint.
Toby Young, General Secretary of the Free Speech Union, previously criticised the BBC for giving classic programmes a "moral health warning".
He said: “The BBC has been taken over by the ‘woke’ cult. Its managers are like 17th Century Witchfinder Generals, constantly on the lookout for heretics.
"Any programmes that depart from their narrow ideological dogma are immediately slapped with a moral health warning."Someone needs to remind them that Britain is the birthplace of Parliamentary democracy and the licence-payers who pay their wages believe in free speech.”
… multi-coloured mincers too. 
