High culture in Britain

Sunday, 6th January 2008

The Times tells us:

'An award-winning young artist has been told that her appearance in the Big Brother house can qualify for the Turner Prize as a study in endurance.'

I have to endure the fact that in return for my licence fee I am fed a diet of propaganda and voyeuristic tat. I think I therefore qualify for the Turner Prize as a study in performance–fatigue art.

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d1carter

January 7th, 2008 12:46am

Welcome back. Hope you found that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. At least I hope you have recharged the batteries.

Mike

January 7th, 2008 4:07am

Fortunately TV, much like reading this blog, is about choice; and your license fee also entitles you to the small number of 200 other channels to choose from.

Adam B.

January 7th, 2008 10:44am

Mike, the licence fee goes exclusively to the BBC, and is a an outdated tax on watching television. Without it, we would still have 196 channels from which to choose. I resent having to pay for a biased BBC, and NOT being given the choice to opt out.

Tom

January 7th, 2008 11:26am

Although, it must be pointed out that Big Brother is not funded by the licence fee.

Eisenmenger

January 7th, 2008 3:46pm

"I am fed a diet of propaganda and voyeuristic tat." The cretinous panellists of the Moral Maze contribute to this diet.

Media Pedant

January 7th, 2008 11:07pm

I wasn't aware that Big Brother was made by the BBC.

Mark

January 7th, 2008 11:28pm

I must say that I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a book. Groucho Marx (1895-1977)

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Melanie Phillips is a Daily Mail columnist. She also writes for the Jewish Chronicle and is a panellist on BBC Radio Four's Moral Maze. Her most recent book is 'The World Turned Upside Down: The Global Battle over God, Truth and Power', published by Encounter.

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