BBC to issue global apology for documentaries that broke rules

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2. This has been in the works since before 2005, when the BBC's rules were changed . . .

. . . to allow the Prime Minister to appoint the BBC's Trustees and to permit outsourcing. See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=203x376080 . Wish I'd been wrong.

And that was the biggest response I managed to inspire. Since then, of course, how DU posts have complained about the media?

I hope some day we'll all prioritize the more fundamental issues more highly. As I've said for years, the top three should be election reform, media reform (including protection of the internet), and education (which has now become a hot topic; but that too has been in the works for years) – because if we can fix those, all other issues will be much easier to fix; if we can't, we'll continually be playing catch-up, at best.