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Mr Kearse explained that he would rather have his comedy acts on YouTube than a slot on the BBC as he claimed the public is moving towards online content. Speaking to Defund the BBC, Mr Kearse said: Everybody is gravitating from the BBC and television comedy and going to YouTube. Everybody watches comedy on YouTube now.
Chaos in Washington DC fuels mounting calls for Biden crackdown on Big Tech
The riots inside the US Capitol have given fuel to calls for the Biden administration to seriously review major technology companies
7 January 2021 • 5:54pm
Joe Biden faces mounting pressure to crackdown on Big Tech and review whether companies such as Facebook and Twitter contributed to the violent protests in Washington DC on Wednesday evening.
Activists and politicians who have for years expressed concern that social media can be used to spread misinformation and hatred called on the next President to closely scrutinise businesses.
Roger McNamee, one of the earliest investors in Facebook who has since become a prominent critic of the company, said that social media businesses “are accessories to the felonies we are seeing on our TVs.”
BBC’s new chairman Richard Sharp says broadcaster is at heart of British culture
Updated: 06/01/2021, 7:08 pm
New BBC chairman Richard Sharp (Jesse Jenkins/DCMS/PA)
Richard Sharp has described the BBC as being “at the heart of British cultural life” after being appointed as the corporation’s new chairman.
The former Goldman Sachs banker will succeed Sir David Clementi in the position.
Mr Sharp, who was once Chancellor Rishi Sunak’s boss, will take over as the BBC faces scrutiny over equal pay, diversity, free TV licences for the over-75s and competition from streaming services such as Netflix, as well as the ongoing coronavirus crisis.
No clear skies yet: Glastonbury in 2019
Credit: REX
Not for the first time, Glastonbury co-organiser Emily Eavis has been forced to deny that this summer’s music festival had been cancelled due to Covid-19. “There’s no news this end yet, we haven’t cancelled,” Eavis tweeted on Tuesday.
Her denial that the Somerset shindig has been called off for the second year running followed remarks by former Spice Girl Mel B on BBC Radio 5 Live. “I know that Glastonbury has been cancelled so a lot of big stage performances are on hold again this year, which is sad but we’ve got to get this virus under control,” Mel B told DJ Nihal Arthanayake.
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