The BBC makes a show of "cutting costs" by closing down promotional sites for a pile of mostly-cancelled TV shows and handing off some sites that might actually count as "content" to the British Library. (Meanwhile, they leave up stuff like this because people actually watch Doctor Who: http://www.badwolf.org.uk)
Why is this a story, even in web circles? Why all the hyped-up outrage?
Not necessarily. But the BBC are. The current UK government has asked all departments to cut spending by more than ever in history, even more than when the empire nearly went bankrupt after the napoleonic war. The BBC whilst nominally independent are funded through a state tax and are a state-owned chartered corporation. The current tories have always been treated with hostility by the BBC as the tories tend to want to reduce the BBC's funding, and the Lib Dems never really got much of a word in edgeways. Consequently the BBC (with it's massive media power) is pushing this to make it very visible that they're doing something about cutting costs.
Why is this a story, even in web circles? Why all the hyped-up outrage?
Are people associated with the BBC shilling this?