Submitted on Tuesday 17th May 2016
Rejected on Tuesday 17th May 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
Stop deleting educational resources from the BBC website like Recipes & iWonder
The Government, in a white paper, says the BBC needs to be "more distinctive" and not compete with online newspapers.This means sections of the BBC website like recipes, iWonder, features, local news and travel will be deleted.These have already been paid for by licence fee payers and should not go.
"BBC has agreed to remove 11,000 recipes from its website as part of savings intended to stop it competing with newspapers"
http://www.theguardian.com/media/2016/may/17/online-recipes-off-the-menu-of-slimmed-down-bbc
“You wouldn’t want BBC to completely crowd out national newspapers. If you look at BBC website it is a good product but it is becoming a bit more imperial” George Osborne
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/jul/05/osborne-accuses-bbc-of-imperial-ambitions-and-calls-for-savings
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
This decision is the responsibility of the BBC. The BBC is an independent body governed by a Royal Charter. Under the terms of that Charter, the BBC is operationally and editorially independent of government and there is no provision for the government to intervene in the BBC’s day-to-day operations.
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