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JWestland
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This.
But now the recipes are moving to BBC Worldwide, they can!
I suggest you read the report on the BBC's purchase and sale several years later for a screaming loss of Lonely Planet.
You can see the summary here http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/our_work/commercial/lonely_planet_review.html
Basically, they bought a private travel guide company with the intention of turning it into a portal like the recipe site. What would that have meant for the likes of Rough Guides?
They utterly ballsed up the integration, so the travel portal never materialised. But this was basically the pinnacle of the Beeb's overstretch problem.
I don't really care if the BBC publishes recipes or not - it makes much more sense for non-core activities to be part of the profit-making arm, though, like the travel portal was supposed to be.
But this idea that the recipes were threatened with the axe precisely to create an opening for Murdoch properties alleged to be waiting in the wings is utterly fucking bonkers wingnut conspiracy nonsense, IMHO. You can google recipes from dozens of places. Hell, you can even buy recipe books in shops. Yes, the existence of the BBC recipe site basically limits the opportunity for the private sector, but no, you can't just give that opportunity to Murdoch wrapped up in a bow.