The BBC, across local radio, regional television and national broadcasting, is more accurate and reliable, and better trusted, than Britain’s newspapers, particularly those with foreign owners who have a vested interest in, and commercial reasons for, wanting to damage the BBC. Will the Secretary of State give me an assurance that the failings will not be used as an excuse to dismantle a great British institution that is the envy of the free world?
BBC
Proceeding contribution from
Bob Russell
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 12 November 2012.
It occurred during Urgent question on BBC.
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