The sitting government has an enormous amount of power over the BBC, that the Tories have been in power since 2010 is the main reason the BBC has spent the last 12 years getting increasingly reactionary.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport directly appoints four of the 12 BBC Board members (its highest governing body), and writes its corporate charter, which, along with its funding must be re-approved by the sitting government at least once every 7 years.
The Tories aren't cutting the BBC's funding and airspace as some method of control, they already have full control of the BBC, they're doing it to make money and remove competition for Sky & ITV, and by selling it to reactionary capitalists ensure that the BBC (or at least whatever's occupying its airspace) will be reactionary and anti-labour even if they lose power, which is not the case now.
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The sitting government has an enormous amount of power over the BBC, that the Tories have been in power since 2010 is the main reason the BBC has spent the last 12 years getting increasingly reactionary.
The Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport directly appoints four of the 12 BBC Board members (its highest governing body), and writes its corporate charter, which, along with its funding must be re-approved by the sitting government at least once every 7 years.
The Tories aren't cutting the BBC's funding and airspace as some method of control, they already have full control of the BBC, they're doing it to make money and remove competition for Sky & ITV, and by selling it to reactionary capitalists ensure that the BBC (or at least whatever's occupying its airspace) will be reactionary and anti-labour even if they lose power, which is not the case now.