BBC->Twitter is a strange one here too, because quite a few people have held prominent front of camera roles at BBC whilst earning £1-400k public salary, but have built up 1-10m audiences on Twitter on the side.

BBC is weird because it is financed by a tax. Every household in UK pays £150? TV tax that goes directly to fund the BBC.

So we have this conveyor belt of tax funded fame.

It’s starting to look very messy.

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Yeah, and I'm aware of the fact that for decades the BBC has been considered a model TV, internationally.

Which really in my opinion only illustrates the case that the moral hazard of government funding (taxes redirected politically) is inherent and unavoidable.