A difference of views in The Times, about the BBC's future.
Columnist Clare Foges, a Conservative party member: "This “patriotic” government ponders buying a new royal yacht to project British influence while undermining the broadcaster that reaches half a billion people worldwide every year. This “levelling-up” government wants to spread opportunity around the country while attacking the organisation that employs more staff outside London than in it. The government struggling to revive our economic fortunes is threatening the engine room of our creative industries, which contribute around £116 billion to the economy every year."
The Times leader: "The BBC is a historic institution but no longer a monopoly. Forcing it to earn revenues by attracting viewers, rather than forcing everyone to pay for it, is overdue."
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