For anyone wondering why they should still pay their licence fee at this point, the true answer has nothing to do with tradition and people in glasses wanting to watch highbrow jolly-hockeysticks programming. Where else does our news come from? It comes from profit-making businesses. It comes from Rupert Murdoch and Richard Desmond.

But you're reading a blog on The Huffington Post.

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