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Beeb bashers are just bad sports.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
From Charles Collins, CNL Music
It's a supreme irony, in this 40th anniversary year of pirate radio, to read the commercial radio companies' criticism of BBC music radio, especially Radio Two, for being too popular. In 1964, the Beeb was under attack for not serving the needs of its audience, for being out of touch and elitist. Now it is under attack for the opposite reason. Seems they just can't win.
One of the main pleas made by the commercial lobby in the Sixties was for the Government to allow competition with the BBC; for the listener to decide. Well, there's certainly plenty of ...
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