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"Last year the BBC collected £3.2billion from licence-payers (pg. 82). The latest licence fee settlement will give the BBC at least £20 billion from licence payers over six years."
"We get from time to time people saying you're biased in favour of the Labour Party. Every time I ask people - show me a case of that bias, explain to me where we got it wrong and why what we said was so unfair - they seem to be unable to do so",
Andrew Marr May 11th, 2001.
"The BBC is not impartial or neutral. It's a publicly funded, urban organisation with an abnormally large number of young people, ethnic minorities and gay people. It has a liberal bias not so much a party-political bias. It is better expressed as a cultural liberal bias",
Andrew Marr
the Daily Mail, Oct 21st, 2006.
"It's not a conspiracy. It's visceral. They think they are on the middle ground",
Jeff Randall former BBC Business Editor,
in The Observer, Jan 15th, 2006.
"The idea of a tax on the ownership of a television belongs in the 1950s. Why not tax people for owning a washing machine to fund the manufacture of Persil?",
James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, Aug 24th, 2007.
"People who know a lot more than I do may be right when they claim that [global warming] is the consequence of our own behaviour. I assume that this is why the BBC's coverage of the issue abandoned the pretence of impartiality long ago",
Media Guardian, Jan 31st, 2007.
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Jane Garvey
BBC Five Live, May 10th, 2007, recalling May 2nd, 1997.
(courtesy of Jonathan Boyd Hunt)
"We need to foster peculiarity, idiosyncrasy, stubborn-mindedness, left-of-centre thinking."
Ben Stephenson
BBC Drama Commissioning Controller
Guardian, July 16th 2009
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