BBC places news chief and her deputy beyond use in Savile row

Free Money ?

Is anybody shocked by the huge sums of money being handed out? The BBC is always crying about not having enough money and wanting to raise the licence tax, perhaps if they behaved more responsibly they would be able to exist, like other commercial enterprises, on the income from sales of their products.

There really is no justification for the licence tax (and has not ever since their global sales began producing serious money), it is the weirdest "business model" imagineable. This tax should be scrapped immediately and someone who understands business methods should be brought in to instil some discipline - Alan Sugar perhaps?

"Why was the chief of BBC TV called "Head of Vision" ....?"

It seems obvious to me, but I've always been very literal-minded. (I'm assuming that the chief of BBC Radio is called "Head of Sound".)

Absence of management checks?

Perhaps - but not because of an absence of "management" but an absence of management.

I don't know the internal organisation of the Beeb but from what I've seen reported it appears to be in the "matrix management" stage of failing organisations where the most common management occupations are passing the buck and burying heads in sand.

It is also quite telling that despite Thompson and others being villified for almost a fortnight for being wilfully ignorant Entwistle chose to play exactly the same card again on Today.

The BBC needs a new management model and soon or we will face the prospect of losing public service broadcasting in the UK with the Beeb simply becoming yet another commission agency.

David Dimblebob Is Right

Have you ever seen a BBC compliance document ? I have. I've seen a few. Impenetrable, indecipherable politically correct gobbledegook "That's only the stuff that's written down" I was once told. "There's stuff we can and can't do that's not even written down, it is just understood"

Compliance has closed down programmes, skewed sound editorial decisions and led to people losing their jobs, and the public losing programmes, for no reason other than something might not comply with one individuals interpretation of a document handed down to them from on high and might 'offend'

BBC participation in the 24 hour rolling news agenda coupled with stupid compliance rules always meant that sooner or later the BBC would be hoist on is own petard. That's now happened. That it will disappear up its own fundament if it doesn't change is inevitable. The BBC is the best at what it does and still has the capacity to be the best for many years to come if they get rid of the layers of PC compliance officers and go back to begin the gold standard of broadcast journalism.

Ignore all the nob heads calling froth BBC to be shut down. Sky and DMGT would love that.

:D

Ooops... I just fucked up and dropped a live database, costing my company huge reputational damage. Off to resign now, and get a years salary and a huge pension contribution as a payoff!

Institutional Arrogance.......

or "Auntie Knows Best". That is the major failing of the BBC, or, rather, its senior management.

They need a good, hard, kick up the arse, right out of the door for a number off them. They can then get back to the BBC's core raison d'etre to "educate, inform and entertain"

What ever the failing of the BBC ...

while Paxo and Humphrey's can still slowly grill the DG over his apparent failings I'll support them.

I'll also take Fox News seriously, the day Rupert Murdock and Rebecca Brooks are questioned live on what they knew about phone hacking at the NotW.

BBGD

Bring back Greg Dyke.

The BBC is out of control. They destroyed F1 and with the savings bought 'The Voice' a clone of the x factor. How is that value for money? Kill off an award winning program, sell out to Sky then buy crap. Then black out the outrage that it caused by not reporting it on their news programs. Something needs to change at the BBC soon. I can't complain. I gave up paying them a penny after the above. Writing in the complain does nothing but supply them with toilet paper.

But where's my

shortwave programmes?