The BBC is the enemy of freedom, a middle class gravy train and, yes, very biased. Because of the BBC, our homes can be invaded by officials checking to see if there is a TV in the property, people (the poor) can be sent to prison for watching TV if they haven't paid the highly regressive TV licence. What do we get in return for our licience fee and this abuse of State power? basically, nothing that the commercial channels don't already provide. The vast majority of the BBC's output is not public service broadcasting - it is tat that is more than amply catered for by commercial boardcasters. The sooner the BBC is privatised the better for all concerned.

You must be joking, and put up with even more wall to wall advertising?
Its a relieve to get away from he commercialism of Sky and ITV. The BBC is an oasis of calm and sense in a media world of soap.

Every time Gove opens his mouth to attack the BBC whoever is interviewing him should remind listeners/viewers that along with being an MP, Gove is also an employee of the The Times which is ownded by Rupert Murdoch.
His attacks on the BBC have less to do with him being a Tory and more to do with the simple fact that he is a Murdoch stooge and is thus always about his master's business.

Or, I suppose the word "apparatchik" is a more appropriate word than "employee" when referring to The BBC / New Labour ( same organisation if you want my opinion )

Abolish it / them!

michael gove showed himself to be a complete a*se

He believes in value for money but doesn't get that if you want to cost something you need to be specific.

Could 'Stan Pomeray' explain or substantiate his trolling? Does his IP address resolve back to somewhere in the Wapping area?

allo allo Jonathan and kylie. Goodbye the bbc license and the claims of their contacts that there were nuclear weapons in Iraq.

If you want to live like a private barons company, don't expect people to pay you as a gateway to other channels.

Gove can't even produce two typed pages of A4 without errors. A disgrace.

Promote Britain ?!

Are you having a bubble bath ?!

If you said Promote Islam, denounce / attack Christianity then I wouldnt bat an eyelid.
The BBC despises everything about Britain.

They could start with Sarah Montague. She's hopeless. But this hard done by act of the Tories is just a blind for kicking the hell out of the Beeb on behalf of Rupert and paving the way for Fox UK. I'm with Mehdi on BBC bias - it is completely pro-establishment but maybe the Tories have been so hurt by their years in opposition they cannot see it is as impartial as any parrot.

It's not his appearance that offends the left, Steve. Let's face it, parliament isn't somewhere you go to see the beautiful people. What offends me is his demeanor and his half baked ideas. I am astonished at some of the crackpot schemes coming out of the government. And they say lefties are idealistic. This may be true but at least we are also realistic.

By the way, you'll soon lament the loss of the BBC when all there is to listen to or watch are imbeciles like Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity. Be too late then.

Michael Gove's main argument is that our education system produces semi-illiterate morons who are unable to string two sentences together to make a coherent argument, think intelligently, rationally, discriminate, avoid making judgements based on prejudice and inability to thoroughly scrutinise source material.

Now read a few of the tory ranters on these posts and you get to think that Gove may have a point...

The BBC is the world's best broadcasting organisation - as anyone who has tried to watch/listen to offerings from other parts of the world can testify. The Tories would do well to understand that a large number of their supporters are die-hard fans of the BBC too. BBC news is not biased and Gove has only made an idiot of himself with his hamfisted attacks this morning.

Typical of Conservatives.. can smell Rupert Murdoch all over it. If he wants to talk about value for money he should ask rupert murdoch .... charging £1.00 for reading the newspaper online....They will soon be taxing us to breath!!!

Rick, are you personally offended my Michael Gove ? or are you personally offended by Michael Gove because The BBC has anointed him as "Public Enemy No. 1" / That evil Tory that wants to eat our children ??
That sounds suspiciously like "Propaganda" to me.
As for Glenn Beck and Sean Hannity ? people should have the choice, no ?
Times have changed & The BBC has forfeited the right to be publically funded, the public shouldnt have to fund pro Islamic propaganda, the obligatory 30 minutes of "Tory Bashing" on every episode of Question Time in living memory, etc etc etc.
Please tell me for any of those that are defending The BBC, why should the Public fund this body which has clearly failed in its duty bound charter to be "Impartial" ?
These are Revolutionary times, privatise it or abolish it, simple as that.

I wish!
I wouldn't let the Paxos Dimblebies and the Humphries hear the word 'apparachicks' if I were you. They'd explode with rage.

Gove is a silly little man who botched his one big announcement he couldnt even get the scraapping of schools done right so of he goes on an "attck the beeb" move which given how easy the tories have had from the bbc so far is a little odd.

No searching questions that ive seen just ohh yes thats a good idea type interviews on many programmes,perhaps now with these silly attacks the BBC will wake up and smell whats coming privitsation

Attacking the media to hide his incompetence's and still attempting to con the people ,by suggesting that running down state education in favour of charitable institutes , is nothing new coming for a Coalition Government, which now believes that students should pay tax after graduation ,as well as paying off loan debts .
That will not make the country better off , it will make it worse of , for Higher Education students , who now have to struggle for jobs in a receding full time jobs market .
Michael Gove is an over paid incompetent and morally corrupt individual who expects that while the country suffers he can keep on living of , comfortably off the tax payer .l

I'm just wondering if Michael Gove collected any appearence fees when he regularly used to appear to the Late Review. If so would this an example of wasteful spending?

As for the Soviet State broadcasting comments, I suppose some of you think Fox is truly fair and balanced. At the end of the day bias is in the eye of the beholder.

I have had my breath taxed by the bbc! Elements of the bbc are liars, cheats, they pay LOADS of licence fee payers money to stars and journalists like Kirsty Wark and then accept that we don't get to hear what we paid for.

Robbie Williams fans they are, they had as much to do with starting the war in iraq as the army, they have been bugging my life, and I hate them. Every time I watch their "special connections" on the news, iraq and the nuclear bomb accusations was the first mistake and they've just broadcast another letter "from the Taliban press secretary" I now wonder how many people will die as a result. World pain in the a***e is more like it, because they most certainly have not been providing a service. I HAVE BEEN PROVIDING THEM WITH A SERVICE and they have been refusing to admit it or pay! So BYE BYE. Which would you have preferred to keep? Robbie Williams or the world trade centre, or Madonna and the cutty sark?

Look forward to the day they get charged for perverting the course of justice! Criminals!

Reasons to be grateful for the BBC, World news, Current Affairs....The Daily Politics, The Politics Show, The AM show, QT, This Week, Radio 2, 3 and 4, BBC4,The World Service. The Proms, millions raised for charity through regular telethons, Wildlife documentaries and Rural affairs programming,Consumer advice programmes,many high quality dramas by leading writers past and present....
Now reasons to be grateful for Sky and Virgin media? Er....erm.....I'll think of something in a minute.....The Adam Boulton show?
I rest my case.

Gove is a disgrace and should have been sacked.

He has just got his feet under the table and has already made a complete balls up of one of the most difficult area for cuts.

Don't be surprised though. Tory ministers attacking the BBC in general and The Today Show in particular is nothing new.

Brian Redhead who was co-presenter of Today during the '80s was regularly accused by senior Tories of being biased against them.

Have the Tory party, BNP,UKIP and assorted other nutters all combined together to attack the BBC on this so-called Left wing, on-line journal? For a moment there, I thought I had wandered onto the Daily Mail site....

Is this the Tory strategy now? ... because attacking the interviewer was exactly the strategy of ex-nondom Zac on channel 4 news.