Letter to the Beeb
Feb. 16th, 2007 05:29 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mishalakHello BBC,
I have read about plans to include advertisements on the BBC Website. I love the BBC's coverage of the news and would be worried that advertisements might lead to the same dilution of quality and timidity that characterizes American commercial reporting. Also I find most advertisements with their moving images an annoyance when I am trying to read, particularly the flash pop over ones. (I've avoided installing flash for that very reason and I would drop java as well if I could.¹)
I wonder if you might consider allowing foreigners to purchase a subscription to the BBC online. Even if it was as much as a license fee of ~$260 a year I would consider it money well spent, particularly if it meant that I then had access to BBC television programing from a legitimate source.
Yours,
M. Mishalak
¹ If anyone reading my journal knows of a better way to manage java on firefox, do write to me. I would dearly love to deny the use of java to all websites except for google/gmail.
I have read about plans to include advertisements on the BBC Website. I love the BBC's coverage of the news and would be worried that advertisements might lead to the same dilution of quality and timidity that characterizes American commercial reporting. Also I find most advertisements with their moving images an annoyance when I am trying to read, particularly the flash pop over ones. (I've avoided installing flash for that very reason and I would drop java as well if I could.¹)
I wonder if you might consider allowing foreigners to purchase a subscription to the BBC online. Even if it was as much as a license fee of ~$260 a year I would consider it money well spent, particularly if it meant that I then had access to BBC television programing from a legitimate source.
Yours,
M. Mishalak
¹ If anyone reading my journal knows of a better way to manage java on firefox, do write to me. I would dearly love to deny the use of java to all websites except for google/gmail.
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Date: 2007-02-17 02:50 am (UTC)The net is a wonderful place again!
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