38 Degrees?

I have never heard of these people but they are starting a petion to support the 'the corporation'. Someone must be worried!

http://38degrees.org.uk/page/s/BBCpetitionFB2

As you can see, it rather misses the point. The BBC does not have "commercial competitors", it is funded by a tax. If I set out to see whether I could run faster than Formula One car, then you might call that a competion, personally I think it would rather be stretching the use of language.

They also say "Of course, it's no coincidence that the BBC's main critics lie within the very media organisations who stand to gain the most". But actually if you were to run a survey of the blogosphere (ie not main stream media) you would find, on balance, even more hostility to 'the corporation'.