Harry Angstrom
Striker
The funding issue, as with the debate about what content they produce and who it's for, is a product of too much meddling and outright attacks on it by people and groups with an agenda. If the need for a state broadcaster was accepted, and it was protected from attacks by groups who do not have the best interests of the country at heart, all the problems people might have with its output and arrangements could be solved.
I'm not sure there is a need for that anymore. Arts council could fund film and tv content for a bit of British independent programming and the BBC news gets a chunk from the State with no strings attached. Then no longer need to tax the poor to the tune of £150 a year.