FoI, Newspapers, and the BBC

[alphadog]

What the hell do they need all those copies for?

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I feel a petition coming on to demand nanny-state-BBC cuts back on their wasteful spending.

[DimPrawn]

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I feel a petition coming on to demand nanny-state-BBC cuts back on their wasteful spending.

Given that the BBC has received £22 million from the EU, UKIP asks where is the BBC’s EU logo displayed on the programmes that it makes?



BBC's Pro-EU mockumentary - UKIP asks 'Where's your EU logo?' | News | UKIP MEPs

[NickFitz]

Given that the BBC has received £22 million from the EU, UKIP asks where is the BBC’s EU logo displayed on the programmes that it makes?



BBC's Pro-EU mockumentary - UKIP asks 'Where's your EU logo?' | News | UKIP MEPs

UKIP love to make themselves look like harebrained, misinformed, idiot obsessives, don't they?

[darmstadt]

Given that the BBC has received £22 million from the EU, UKIP asks where is the BBC’s EU logo displayed on the programmes that it makes?



BBC's Pro-EU mockumentary - UKIP asks 'Where's your EU logo?' | News | UKIP MEPs

How much have the Ukip received?

[unixman]

I got a response to the FoI request I made during the Clarkson kerfuffle, asking how many of each newspaper the BBC gets.

So we can finally lay to rest Guido's old one showing that they bought the Grauniad a lot. The figures for 2014 are:

Daily Mail	78463
Times		77167
Daily Telegraph	75308
Sun		66202
The Independent	61339
Daily Mirror	60528
Guardian	45672
Daily Express	42263
Financial Times	40253
Daily Star	17988

As people of a rightwing persuasion have been fond of asserting that the high number of copies of the Grauniad bought in 2010 were indicative of leftwing bias at the Corporation, perhaps they will now start loudly trumpeting the BBC's obvious rightwing inclinations on the basis of these more recent figures

Here's the entire response as a PDF (257KB), also showing figures for Sunday papers.

HTH

What about the circulations. The Guardian is one of Britain's least read newspapers, selling only 185,000 per day in Jan 2015, compared with 1.7 million for the Daily Mail. The Indendent is the lowest of all on just over 61000 - little more than a local newspaper.

Therefore, if the BBC were reflective of the UK population, it would be buying about 8616 Guardians, not 45,672, and 2849 Independents, rather than 61139.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...by_circulation

Any improvement in the figures, which are still lamentably imbalanced, might be due to the bottom-torching received by the Beeb after Guido broke the original story. Since then it has raged on Twitter, with people constantly making the defense you made, and others constantly making the response I made. All good fun.

[DimPrawn]

How much have the Ukip received?

Somewhat less than the BBC.

[DaveB]

Somewhat less than the BBC.

But still far more per head.

BBC employs circa 20,000 peole and got £22 Million. =£1,100 per employee.

UKIP got £1.5m from the EU. They'd need to be employing 1363 people to show the same ratio. I'm pretty sure the number is closer to 150 paid employees, so more like £10k per person.

[DimPrawn]

But still far more per head.

BBC employs circa 20,000 peole and got £22 Million. =£1,100 per employee.

UKIP got £1.5m from the EU. They'd need to be employing 1363 people to show the same ratio. I'm pretty sure the number is closer to 150 paid employees, so more like £10k per person.

EU money to fight the EU. Gotta love their style.

[d000hg]

EU money to fight the EU. Gotta love their style.

If you love self-serving hypocrisy... oh wait now it makes sense why UKIP are so popular amongst IT contractors.

[NickFitz]

What about the circulations.

Nice straw you're clutching at

Any improvement in the figures, which are still lamentably imbalanced, might be due to the bottom-torching received by the Beeb after Guido broke the original story. Since then it has raged on Twitter, with people constantly making the defense you made, and others constantly making the response I made. All good fun.

Bless. Yes, if you want to believe that, go right ahead.