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Originally Posted by Joanna Lytton-Vasey
You may also have noticed the profligacy of the BBC in employing a full orchestra to perform live before every news broadcast? For this, every household in Britain where there is any piece of electrical equipment which is even capable of receiving BBC television - including computers and cellphones - has to pay an annual tax of $200. This is payable whether they watch it or not and even galloping senility is not an excuse.
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Originally Posted by Dr. Anthony J. Toole
I thought they still offered a discount for the blind and deaf.
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Either way, I want to thank the British taxpayers for paying for it. There's considerably less advertising than on the US cable news, and while BBC devotes way too much time to the areas of the world that nobody cares about (such as Belarus, Nigeria, and even New Zealand), it is sort of entertaining to know that there are things happening outside of the US.
It's quite baffling to think that citizens of these meaningless "countries" actually believe that their "news" are important, though - and it's even more confusing that the BBC seems to agree. I'm guessing they're not aware that America is the best nation, in fact, that it is the only nation on earth that matters. Both left and right leaning US cable news networks understand that, but the BBC doesn't.