Saturday 20 August 2011

When Jonathan Edwards, Plaid MP and Westminster rabble-rouser ...


... calls for greater investment in existing Welsh TV services, he is calling to the nationalist faithful.  He is saying ...
"That means stopping the cuts being made to S4C and BBC Wales and giving ITV Wales the scope for improvements.  Wales must have a national television service worthy of the name, with quality programming that represents us as a nation."

He continues the rhetoric ...
"Welsh is an everyday language amongst audiences across Wales, and this must be reflected in the television services which they receive.  Our priority here in Wales, though, must be improving and developing the level of Welsh news and current affairs rather than furthering the ill considered agenda of a Westminster minister."
This ill considered agenda is no agenda at all, Westminster believes the UK would benefit from local TV coverage, and the envisaged TV has to be self financing ... and that could be a problem, who wants to sponsor current affairs on "TV Swansea" when there is an opportunity to sponsor "Four Weddings and a Funeral" ... on ITV.

The bottom line for the separatist at work at Westminster is he wants three terrestrial channels ported to a Welsh platform working at the behest of and directed by the politics of Welsh Nationalism. Not once does the man offer a financial model to pay for his proposed extravaganza, he would like his scheme paid for by the taxpayers of Britain ....

.... in a world of shrinking budgets, the nationalists would expect a larger share, in the world of television they would like a louder voice, but only if it in Wales ...



2 comments:

  1. I disagree with Johnathan Edwards. TV should be Free market. Run on advertising not subsidy or funding. Why give BBC an unfair advantage over ITV? Why have a self appointed national channel for Wales or the UK? It gives one group an unfair advantage.

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  2. I agree unequivocally with your sentiments.

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