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"It's astonishing value, despite increasing and enormous animosity from the anti-BBC propagandists. You're getting more and more for your money," was the passionate defense from Professor Patrick Barwise, the co-author of a 2014 report called What If There Were No BBC Television? He's optimistic that fear of a public backlash will save the BBC, given that Cameron's government is already fighting huge ideological battles on other fronts, like shrinking the state to previously unimaginable levels through austerity measures and potentially being the PM that takes us out of the EU and loses Scotland.Barwise believes the renewal will see the BBC undermined by a continued freeze on the license fee (it's been frozen since 2010, which in real terms has meant a 20 percent cut in budgets), and the fee further "salami sliced" by diverting funds from program-making into other functions, like paying for the rollout of broadband, or for free licenses for the over-75s, currently paid for by the government."There is a feeling here that this is the end of the BBC" – an in-house producer
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