Hunt's call for Beeb responsibility-shades of state control

Now here is a good bit of politics.(Only joking)

This morning's Telegraph reports that

The BBC should be at the forefront of tackling the issue of 'Broken Britain' by actively promoting social policies and radically looking again at its programmes it offers to young people or risk part of its licence fee,

That's according to Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Culture, Media, and Sport Secretary,in an interview with the paper this morning.

What I'd like to see from the BBC is a broader vision of how they can help us tackle the big broken society issues: the rise in knife crime, gun culture, broken families - all the things that are really intractable problems that people in Westminster scratch their heads trying to solve."

So is it the responsibility of the public sector broadcaster? Some will argue that this is one of the ways in which the public should get a return on their money.However at the end of the day,the BBC although pubnlicy funded operates in the comeercial environment.
Further more this sounds suspiciously like government control over what is broadcast.Shades of the 1926 row over the general strike when Lord Reith maintained and enshrined the independence of the BBC