By Jennifer Johnson
LONDON, Dec 2 (Reuters Breakingviews) – The BBC is going through one of its periodic crises. The iconic UK broadcasting institution is at the centre of a firestorm over its impartiality, due in part to a spat over the misleading edit of a Donald Trump speech that has prompted its director-general to resign and the U.S. president to threaten a $1 billion lawsuit. But the current rumpus is merely one data point in a much wider discussion of how “the Beeb” funds its 6 billion pounds of annual costs. The real headache is that all the feasible alternatives point to an increasingly shrunken future.
Full article: https://www.reuters.com/commentary/breakingviews/bbc-funding-options-mostly-require-it-shrink-2025-12-02/
