On the Ropes Opinion: Brave BBC Takes It to Bully Boy Trump in His Backyard as America Cowers
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On the Ropes Opinion: Brave BBC Takes It to Bully Boy Trump in His Backyard as America Cowers
Trump thought the Beeb would fold like ABC and Paramount, but instead it’s coming for his tax returns—and his kids—funded by ME, and I’m here for it.
PunchUp’s regular weekend On the Ropes mailout brings you a side-eyed and snarky take on the weird and wild stuff going on in politics and public life, as well as the highlights from Latch’s reporting at the Daily Beast. This week, the British former BBC journalist enjoys Donald Trump’s misplaced legal action against the corporation. We’d love to hear from you, whether it’s the stories that are resonating, the scandals that are reverberating, or the gossip that seems too ridiculous to be true—which probably means that it is.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation faced criticism here in the U.K. last month over a high-profile advertising campaign that asked: “What has the BBC ever done for me?” It may now be time for America to ask: “What has the BBC ever done for us?”
The promo featured a host of British celebrities (including Louis Theroux and Coldplay’s Chris Martin, but most of whom PunchUp’s American audience will never have heard of) waxing lyrical about all the great television the Beeb makes. The aim was to highlight that the £180 annual license fee British households must pay the BBC to watch TV is great value. In the past few months, for some of us at least, it has become even more so.
That money—some of it, as a Brit, my money—is now helping the Beeb to do something American media organizations have often been too afraid of. It has nothing to do with producing TV shows, and everything to do with cutting Donald Trump down to size.
