The BBC is set to cut back on its current affairs coverage as more and more Brits cancel their licence fees. The broadcaster has asked media watchdog Ofcom to slash its mandatory peak-time current affairs quota across BBC One and BBC Two, arguing they need to adapt to changing viewer habits and a lack of cash. Ofcom, the benevolent media overlords that they are when not policing the internet, say they are considering the BBC’s proposal…
The BBC said today:
“These proposals reflect changing viewing habits and aim to focus on delivering new, high-quality content while achieving greater value for money for licence fee payers. We remain committed to providing high-impact current affairs programming, as shown by our recent Panorama investigation into Charing Cross police station.”
Starmer spoke to Nick Robinson for the Today Programme on Polanski’s criticism of the Golders Green police officers:
“I want everybody just to imagine what it might be like. You’re trying to arrest someone who has already attacked two people and has no regard for life. We know that tasers were fired. I know from my own experience with the police, that there are only two shots in a taser, and once you’ve shot them, there’s nothing left. There’s a guy on the ground, he’s got a rucksack on. And I don’t know what was going through the mind of those officers, but if I was there, I’d be thinking, he’s going to detonate something. He’s going to blow me up and everybody around here. In those circumstances, I think you can quite see why what could have gone through their mind is, we need to do whatever we can to disable this guy…
Now, when I then see Zack Polanski come out and retweet or support a criticism of that, I think it’s disgraceful… He’s not fit to lead any political party.”