All very interesting, but not really the point. The fact that not getting your moneys worth in other areas of life somehow makes the TV licence OK is the old argument of 'Everybody else is paying why shouldn't you?' Complete rubbish. A gang of burglars break into somebody's home. 'What do you mean you don't want to be robbed? We've robbed three other houses tonight and they all paid up ! What makes you so special?'
Ok I'm messing about a bit, but nobody has addressed the real point of the BBC abandoning Public Broadcasting Values. Do we just accept that and pay up? The other option is to start revising the values, then revising the revisions. A bit like saying the BBC is bang on target! Oh no not THAT target but this new one. No thanks.