Battered BBC
The impact on our screens and radios of the repeated shedding of staff is already obvious.
The economies directed by the director general are having a disproportionate and highly damaging impact on BBC Scotland. However, the question First Minister Alex Salmond must answer is: if the BBC can no longer fund a top-class news and current affairs operation in Scotland, how can an SBC?
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Hide AdI fear he may view buying EastEnders from the BBC as a more popular use of funds than journalists reporting and analysing an independent Scotland.
KIT FRASER
Belhaven
Dunbar
In the arguments over Scotland’s proportion of the BBC, it could be said that Scotland currently pays for and watches £300 million worth of BBC television, of which £60m worth is made in Scotland.
Who is to say that the ratio would be any different should Scotland have direct control over the whole £300m budget?
If the likes of EastEnders are to be shown they would still have to be paid for out of that budget, along with myriad other foreign (mainly American) shows that the populace currently enjoys (unless it is simply proposed to freeload on Freeview).
Failing such a deal, with what would the SNP replace them?
Perhaps it is planned to commission a PPI deal with Alex’s friend Mr Murdoch to run the system.
Peter Kent
Meikle Wartle
Aberdeenshire