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Title: "Wake Up Everybody"
Post by Administrator on Jul 16^th, 2015, 3:56pm

Raymond Snoddy's call for everyone to wake up and realise how potentially malevolent this government's plans for the BBC will be in their effect

is here, in Mediatel's Newsline:-

In the item, he refers to former BBC Trust Chairman, Sir Michael Lyon's statement that
"funding free licence-payers for the over-75s was a step too far, turning the BBC into an arm of social services.".

Snoddy asks
"why would you want to try to undermine an organisation that reaches 97 per cent of the population each week, unless you are motivated by commercial rivalry, malice or ideology?"

In a 'tweet' Snoddy asked this question:-
Has John Whittingdale already earned the title of worst Culture Secretary of any party- no predecessor aspired to do such damage to the BBC.