High culture in Britain
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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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 'Londonistan', published by Encounter and Gibson Square.
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d1carter
January 7th, 2008 12:46amWelcome 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 4:07amFortunately 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January 7th, 2008 10:44amMike, the licence fee goes exclusively to the BBC, and is a an outdated tax on watching television.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 11:26amAlthough, 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 11:07pmI wasn't aware that Big Brother was made by the BBC.
Mark
January 7th, 2008 11:28pmI 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)