From the comments at Biased BBC, we discover that Culture select committee chairman John Whittingdale is talking big on reform of the BBC:
The Culture, Media and Sport committee chairman John Whittingdale, said the Government and the BBC should discuss an alternative to the licence fee. More than a million households do not pay the £145.50 annual fee.
John Whittingdale is a fellow Mensa member and was interviewed for a three page article in the April edition of the Mensa magazine.
It is not yet clear about what future action is due as regards the 28 Gate scandal at the BBC, but I think that the May edition of the Mensa magazine and future Space Special interest group newsletters and emails from Mensa members may shed light at what seems to be an unprecedented attack from Mensa members upon the BBC as regards its censorship of science, scientists and scientific debate about Climate Change. They told me not to expect much before May, but they have not told me that Whittingdale is leading the Mensa attack on the BBC. Last year he said that the BBC had a “failure of management at every level” and that there was “something fundamentally wrong with the BBC management structure”.
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Someone should be telling Blogs such as bishop-hill and wattsupwiththat to submit information to Whittingdale
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It is worth noting that a mutual friend passed my 28gate pamphlet on to Whittingdale, but unfortunately I never received any feedback. I am therefore fairly pessimistic about whether Whittingdale's suggestions about the future of the BBC amount anything more than trying to send out the correct vibes to disgruntled Tory voters.