BBC 'spends £50,000' on 'meaningless' poll

[Sweetpea]

The BBC has come under fire for wasting thousands of pounds in taxpayers money on a 'meaningless' global survey about who people want to be the next US president.
Corporation chiefs have been criticised for spending an estimated £55,000 on an international poll of more than 23,000 people about the American elections.
Citizens from 23 countries were contacted by a polling agency hired by the BBC World Service to find out if they favoured Barack Obama or John McCain.
But the move has created anger from critics who claim the entire project is a massive waste of time as it is only the views of Americans that matter.
They also point out that the US presidential elections are already the subject of endless polls in the US, which provide much more useful information.

BBC 'spends £50,000' on 'meaningless' poll asking the world if Obama or McCain should be president | Mail Online


Well, this is where your license money goes.

[Haqa]

Glad to hear they are not wasting money on something silly like making TV programmes.

H.

[Churchill]

Thats actually quite a cheap poll, at approx £2 per opinion. Then again, surely they can newswire all of the other polls conducted by US stations for nothing?

[poppy]

par for the beep these days, they lost the plot years ago.

[emmylou]

they will be running a poll to find out how many people thought it was pointless next.....

[terrywit]

this 'meaningless' poll can fook of back to his own country......

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by emmylou

they will be running a poll to find out how many people thought it was pointless next.....

Bet they don't ... Their puppeteers in the USA won't allow that...

H.

[ambriel]

The BBC are concentrating more and more on the 'extra' services: those they can and do sell around the world and for which license payers have to pay extra to receive.How many BBC channels are only available via satellite?Large parts of the country still can't receive digital broadcasts.I also find it bizarre that the BBC can get away with having an "Asian Network" channel but imagine the outcry if they started a "White European" channel.