According to the Telegraph, the BBC is going to cut recipes from its website. Recipes. That means BBC Food will become a thing of the past. Goodbye cheesecake! Goodbye elegant cheesy mushroom starter things! We hardly knew you.
Why are they getting rid of it? Sometimes we cut services because they cost too much, other times because they just aren't very good. This time, it's because the BBC is just too awesome at publishing recipes.
We are taking down BBC Food because it is too good, because it is better than any alternative.
But does cutting the recipe section from the BBC website actually make anyone's life better? Was anyone really suffering because it was a little too easy to find twelve ways to cook with asparagus?
Obviously not. At least, not individual people. Newspapers, on the other hand, were being oppressed. They can't compete with the BBC online, the poor darlings, and hope that once the BBC stops giving us hints about what to do with artichokes, they can at last flourish as they were meant to.
Maybe so. Maybe the press are a bit hard done by and it's about time we gave them a break. Maybe.