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Although the BBC is technically not-for-profit it does have an enormous worldwide revenue from the resale of programmes and repeat fees, from the sale of CDs, videos, DVDs, and a wide range of books and magazines. It is in fact a major publisher in its own right. [[User:Celtish|celtish]] 21:38, 14 September 2007 (EDT)
Although the BBC is technically not-for-profit it does have an enormous worldwide revenue from the resale of programmes and repeat fees, from the sale of CDs, videos, DVDs, and a wide range of books and magazines. It is in fact a major publisher in its own right. [[User:Celtish|celtish]] 21:38, 14 September 2007 (EDT)
==NY Times and McCain==
Okay, to avoid an edit war, I'm leaving your last revision intact - the NYT did in fact reject the original piece that McCain had submitted. As I mentioned on the main Talk page, the reason for the rejection wasn't because they were trying to silence McCain - they were trying to get him to revise his piece to include a comparable level of detail to the Obama piece. Simply put, they asked McCain to give them ''more'' material about his views, strategies and plans prior to publication. That's not censoring the man, it's giving him an opportunity to make the most of his rebuttal piece, and frankly they blew the opportunity. When you look at his piece (as published by others) compared to Obama's, there's just the same talking points and general attacks that he's been putting out for weeks, and his one-liner for Iraq sounds a lot like "stay the course". The NY Times respects McCain and endorsed him in the primaries, so when you read between the lines of their rejection email to McCain, it's basically saying "Um, Senator, we'd be glad to publish your Op-Ed reply to Obama, but unless you want to look completely outclassed you need to beef this up first". It speaks volumes about the McCain campaign leadership that they didn't take the opportunity to step up with more substance, but chose to play the "they won't give us equal time" card, and now it's backfired on them.
So I'll leave your edit, and add a reference to the actual NYT response that shows they weren't shutting him out, but asking for more instead. --[[User:DinsdaleP|DinsdaleP]] 22:39, 21 July 2008 (EDT)