Via LGF:
Britain’s government is considering a plan to break up the BBC and remove its independent status in the wake of a bitter row with the state-funded broadcaster over the Iraq war, a report said. Government papers detailing possible changes to the BBC’s structure proposed breaking it into separate regional entities for England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, The Sunday Times said. The documents, which the newspaper said had been drawn up by "senior civil servants", also suggested that the job of ensuring the BBC’s impartiality could be taken away from the corporation’s board of governors. The BBC, which is independently run despite being financed by public money through a compulsory television licence, is currently facing perhaps the worst breakdown in relations with the government in its 82-year history.
(Quelle surprise!) NOT |