That short answer is because people are a bunch of selfish jerks but I fancy a rant so I am going to expand on this. Aren’t you lucky? The BBC is in the unenviable position of needing to please all of the people all of the time. Which is we all know is simply not possible. They can’t win. No matter what they do a bunch of loud licence fee payers with too much time on their hands will be at their throats demanding their heads. Forgive my mixed metaphors but I like them. Naturally these loud mouth cretins who frankly should have jobs to do or a blog to write will be egged on by commercial media.

You see if the BBC do popularist programming like shitty reality TV then they get accused of dumbing down by Guardian reading wombats. However, if they do intelligent programmes then the unwashed masses don’t watch them and they BBC get accused of being elitist by Chimps carrying copies of The Sun. It’s not like the can balance the books either because if they do then both groups complain their needs are not being fully met. This applies to politics too. Do a piece critical of the BNP they are out of touch left-wing academics but if they put the BNP on TV they are evil fascists. Anything they do gets them accused of bias by ‘the other side’. I’m also kind of fed up hearing God-botherers, like that twat Simon Mayo, whining about the declining level of Christian focused content on the BBC despite it still being vastly more than any other religious group let alone for atheists or agnostics. But see them flip out if the BBC dares show a 6 part series totalling just a handful of hours starring Richard Dawkins and his philosophy. Read the rest of this entry »