However, the BBC's licence fee and its governing board or trust were created precisely to keep it at arm's length from the meddling of politicians which is so common around the globe.
If they do reform it, they are accused of "meddling" (which often reflects resentment by nurses and doctors at any attempt to squeeze efficiencies out of a patchy system).
It also tries to ensure that all of the issues are kept quiet and far away from the meddling of the media which could blow the whole thing up and force company executives to testify in front of Congressional hearings.
June 30 2011 November 27 201111 The standup comic Judy Gold, a six-foot-three Jewish lesbian from New Jersey, tells her life story, at the center of which are her meddling mother and an obsession with sixties and seventies sitcoms.
("You are meddling in affairs... of the danger of which you have no conception").
In the series' main plot arcs — all of which involved some kind of network meddling — the heroes, or "creatives," understood this, while the villains, or "suits," did not.
Second, Russia accounts for one-third of the EU's imports, around half of which are piped through Ukraine; its meddling in Ukraine has increased European concerns over the reliability of its main gas supplier.
All of which shows how fatuous it is to criticise, on principle, supranational meddling in national affairs and the associated loss of national sovereignty.
For men to meddle in that choice was to tamper with the divine order, the inevitable price of which was chaos.
Unicom has been hit harder, compounded by another piece of government meddling which forced it in 1999 to adopt America's CDMA technology as well as the existing GSM European standard.
