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Thatcher probably would have been fine with the censorship. See her previous interference with the BBC:
http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=HxsNAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA159&lpg=PA159&dq=bernard+ingham+serious+repercussions+falklands+bbc&source=bl&ots=KrdiNDBDzP&sig=Q5Grl-E5QOrbmYtcfyV0IzDyJEM&hl=en&sa=X&ei=vIFoUa7dHq2c0wXAr4DADg&ved=0CEAQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=bernard%20ingham%20serious%20repercussions%20falklands%20bbc&f=false
Now she's doing it from beyond the grave...
SP it's not as crazy as it sounds. Perhaps not scrap, but the BBC is state media, and there are two theories about state media. Pigouvian theory contends that government ownership is good, whereas public choice theory suggests that state control undermines economic and political freedoms.
Which do you think the BBC is closest to at the moment? Thatcher is receiving a state funeral in everything but name and the BBC, as the state's propaganda machine, will broadcast her ceremonial military funeral with little question, celebrating our armed forces (who kill people) and Thatcher without question, while censoring the pop charts to avoid causing offence to the dearly departed great leader.
If this was North Korea the BBC would be highly critical.
It's going to cost us £8 million in a period of supposed austerity.