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The existing recipes will be archived and made available, either officially or unofficially. That is not the issue. The real issue is that, until this point, v
by UVB-76 10y ago
The existing recipes will be archived and made available, either officially or unofficially. That is not the issue.
The real issue is that, until this point, virtually every British household has been forced (and enforced, by thousands of criminal convictions every year) to fund a bland, outdated, unnecessary recipe website.
The BBC does not exist to provide generic content that pleases the masses. The BBC should not be popular.
If a service is popular, it is likely commercially viable, and should not therefore be subsidised by the license fee.
- JamesLefrere 10y agoThat's a very one-sided view. It has been very popular because it is of high quality (how on earth is it bland or outdated?) and not bloated, without any intrusive ads; that's what the Beeb is about.
- elthran 10y ago> The BBC does not exist to provide generic content that pleases the masses The BBC produces Eastenders. I can't think of a better example of generic content that pleases the masses. Then throw in all the late morning/early afternoon programming targeted at older people such as Bargain Hunt and the like
- UVB-76 10y agoIndeed, there is plenty wrong with what the BBC has been doing.