The BBC's Charter and its Producers Guidelines state:
...'Due impartiality lies at the heart of the BBC. All programs and services should be open minded, fair and show a respect for truth? [BBC reports should] contain comprehensive, authoritative and impartial coverage of news and current affairs in the United Kingdom and throughout the world??
With less than a million viewers, BBC licence fee is as hard to defend as MPs' expenses Last updated at 4:49 PM on 09th April 2009 The BBC isn't doing well under its Director-General for the past five years, Mark Thompson. According to Broadcast magazine, it suffered its second worst peaktime performance on Tuesday night since at least 2001, managing an audience share of only 5.3 per cent. Between 8pm and 10.30pm not a single BBC2 show had an audience of even a million. Soon the licence fee will be as hard to defend as MPs' expenses.
At present, the BBC is only answerable to itself in deciding its standards and coverage. How does it measure up to what you consider good quality, and impartial and unbiased reporting as required by its charter? All TV viewers in the UK are forced by law to pay for this 'service'. Do you believe that what is received truly 'serves' the society, - or merely increases the problems within it?
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