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| Not an actual picture of Nadine Dorries. |
Nadine Dorries, our government culture secretary was speaking in front of the digital, media and sports select committee last week, trying to justify her decision to try and sell off the publicly owned Channel 4. It seems that, in spite of being responsible for the oversight of our national TV stations, she has no clue whatsoever of what it is she is in charge of.
"I would argue that to say that, just because Channel 4's been established as a public service broadcaster and just because it's in receipt of public money, we should never audit the future of Channel 4 and we should never evaluate how Channel 4 looks in the future and whether or not it's a sustainable and viable model". Is how she justified her proposal to the committee.
A shame then that she doesn't know that Channel 4 is entirely funded by advertising. When challenged by Tory MP Damien Green that Channel 4 gets it's revenue from advertising, her response was, "And....so.....though it's.....yeah and that".
Whether this is an even more stupid blunder that her LBC interview where she was boasting about how well Channel 5 was doing since being privatised is open to debate.
Channel 5 has never been publicly owned.
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