The BBC is forever whining about a lack of resources and yet it still manages to waste licence payers' money on trivia and rubbish.
For years now, viewers been treated to a miscellany of 'fillers' between programmes; in my youth, we even had the quite famous 'Potter's Wheel' which was, at least, interesting and educational. In recent times, such items have been replaced by an assortment of quite pointless interludes including hot ait balloons and hippos. Yesterday, apparently, marked the introduction of the latest set of meaningless and pointless 'idents', as the BBC appears to call them.
Out go the circling hippos and in come a series of images designed to "capture an evolving portrait of modern Britain in all its diversity", whatever that might mean. True to its own modern style of profligacy, the BBC has actually paid someone, no doubt a handsome sum, to invent a daft new set of silly images; these include a group of swimmers, a 'zumba' class and wheelchair rugby players in action. The commissioned artist, a photographer named Martin Parr, must surely be laughing all the way to the bank.
The BBC, its presenters, reporters and guests have been at the forefront of those bemoaning the imposition of supposed austerity by the evil Tory led governments of recent years and yet they can still find the cash to pay for this nonsensical and utterly unnecessary trivia. It seems that image is all and the BBC feels it essential to broadcast its socialist ideals above all else and whatever the cost.
If these pointless 'fillers' are needed, the BBC must have vast stores of material from which it could draw at no cost; why, then, does it need to arrange special commissions for such things ? If ever there was a case for doing away with the licence fee, and the BBC, it is proven by such nonsense as this.
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