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It surprises me the ´óÏó´«Ã½ would do a program like this seeing as it won't answer emails i send it even though it says you will reply within 5 working days, its been a good couple of weeks since i sent the last one.

Couple this with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ blocking a recent report in the the ´óÏó´«Ã½'s bias in reporting issues such as Israel and the ´óÏó´«Ã½ comes across as a organisation thats arrogant and refuses to be critisized.

sam i could not agree more.

i used to believe that the bbc was an institution to be proud of.

Now i see it as no more than british pravda.

It is clear that the bbc has its own agenda, and when it finds itself with a truth that doesn't fit its agenda the bbc just brushes it aside.

I now feel let down and also embaressed that i once thought the bbc stood for truth

Sam i have also found it very difficult to recieve any answers to questions i ask.

My favourite was when one guy replied in his blog saying he would love to answer any questions, and then i was barred from adding any more comments.

A technical glitch i suppose

So sam where do we go from here?

Well im not sure, very very occasionally i see a editor answer in a blog to peoples questions. It surprises me actually you would think the ´óÏó´«Ã½ staff would enjoy a bit of a debate on there blogs in the same way these issues are often thrashed out in political forums.

I sent a email asking them to do a peice about the T.V license fee as the topic of the day was regarding the ´óÏó´«Ã½ asking the government to raise the license fee to pay for various things, obviously my standpoint was firstly i should be able to choose weather i want to view the ´óÏó´«Ã½ channels and pay for them and secondly for those that do want it they shouldn't all have to pay the same, seeing as the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is fairly lefty biased you would think they'd be against such a draconian right wing form of taxation such as the license fee.

Anyway, back on topic, of course i never got a reply. As for where do we go? Well unlike most things ie: comercial TV channels we can decide not to use them or pay for them, same goes for food if i didn't like McD's i could boycott them. However with the ´óÏó´«Ã½ its a dictatorship and a monopoly so we have to put up with it, they don't listen to us becuase there not interested in what we think becuase they're far too busy patting each other on the back in there ivory towers.

Meanwhile, back on planet Earth, everyone realised that there's a tiny hardcore of malcontents who hate the ´óÏó´«Ã½ but enjoy nothing more than criticising it on its own blogs. Seriously, Beeb, why do you publish these kinds of comments?

Hey, some of us have been used to having 95% of our posts wiped by the Beeb for years! Get over it guys, what do you think this is? Pravda??

sam i could not agree more.

i used to believe that the bbc was an institution to be proud of.

Now i see it as no more than british pravda.

It is clear that the bbc has its own agenda, and when it finds itself with a truth that doesn't fit its agenda the bbc just brushes it aside.

I now feel let down and also embaressed that i once thought the bbc stood for truth

Sam i have also found it very difficult to recieve any answers to questions i ask.

My favourite was when one guy replied in his blog saying he would love to answer any questions, and then i was barred from adding any more comments.

A technical glitch i suppose

So sam where do we go from here?

Well like i said there doesn't seem to be much we can do. A boycott of the enforced taxation would mean we end up in jail just for owning a T.V regardless of weather i watched the ´óÏó´«Ã½ channels.

And Pippa if your so sure its a 'tiny minority of malcontents' then there wouldn't be a problem making the license fee optional would there? As its such a tiny minority the ´óÏó´«Ã½ would still get all the money it needs. So lets have a referendum and see what happens shall we.

As for my right to post here and my right to have my view listened to seeing as i do pay my license fee as required BY LAW i have every right too.

In response to Pippa's comment, I think she will find that she is in the minority of people who seem to find the ´óÏó´«Ã½ a unbiased and representative organisation.
It is a pity that Pippa ignores what the bloggers were trying to get across...the ´óÏó´«Ã½ refuses to listen to it's listeners/viewers, it only gives broadcast time to people/events which fit it's left-wing view of the world, and worst of all it never responds to questions.
The chap who also asks us do we think this is 'Pravda', I would answer back yes, we have no control over the editorials, message boards we even have no control if we wish to pay for the ´óÏó´«Ã½ or not, so under those criteria I would say yes!.
To my mind the ´óÏó´«Ã½ is just a mouthpiece for the loony left and those wonderfully balanced people at the Guardian.
The British Broadcasting Co-operation..you must be joking.

Watching the evening news on ´óÏó´«Ã½1 at 6.00 p.m. on Wednesday 8 November, I noticed that George Alogawa was the lead correspondent reporting from Washington D.C. at the Mid-term Elections. As much as I like him, I could not help but wonder why the ´óÏó´«Ã½ felt it necessary to despatch him over there, especially as there were two perfectly good reporters doing a fine job within the same item. Does this obvious superfluity, while this may be normal practice, only served to pander to vanity and worst still undermine the journalistic ability of the other two reporters? (All this unnecessary air travel does the environment no favours.)

Consider ITV1’s ‘Tonight with Trevor McDonald’, when I occasionally watched it in the past, pre his retirement, I don’t think he ever presented an episode that he had introduced. I appreciate that he is a presenter held in great esteem, but it does smack of even greater vanity! I appreciate the draw of a name, but do the programme makers not trust the general public to tune in and stay the course in the absence of a familiar face?