Bradley Wiggins, Sue Barker and The BBC

Phil Ochs: There but for Fortune (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

The BBC sink lower and lower in my estimation. They are dumbing down the programme content where no serious issues are tackled anymore, or indeed decent drama or programmes on popular culture. Arena where are you now - and why are they not showing the Phil Ochs documentary, "There But For Fortune"? They have become the platform of the middle classes where the announcers and interviewers only have posh accents and no searching questions are asked for fear of offending the miscreant in the lens. The current executives would do well to read the "Wires and Lights" speech of Ed Murrow in which he decried the television channels for not tackling serious issues but devoting their time to providing the audience with chewing gum for the mind.

 They have just come out of their orgy on the Queens Jubilee and Wimbledon (isn't Murray an SNP supporter who wants nothing to do with England?) and are about to do the same over the Olympics (drugs bribes and all). Meanwhile one of the greatest endurance tests in the world, The Tour De France, is all but being ignored, and commentary is confined to a remote DAB channel that I can't even receive. I would love to see the plummy voiced Barker interviewing the current race leader Bradley Wiggins who in response to a question in a post-stage press conference when asked what he thought about people who point fingers at Team Sky and hinted that he is doping replied:-

“I say they’re just fecking wankers. I cannot be doing with people like that. 

It justifies their own bone-idleness because they can’t ever imagine applying themselves to do anything in their lives. 

It’s easy for them to sit under a pseudonym on Twitter and write that sort of shit, rather than get off their arses in their own lives and apply themselves and work hard at something and achieve something. And that’s ultimately it. fannys.”