DOWNSIZING…

“The corporation said yesterday that it would also consider cuts on each of its television channels and radio stations as part of the review. Sir Michael Lyons, the Chairman of the BBC Trust, said in a letter to licence fee payers that the internal review “may mean the BBC becoming smaller”, adding that the trust wanted “a BBC that is smarter, more efficient and no bigger than it needs to be” Insiders said that the estimated £100 million a year that it spent on buying US shows was a likely target, given how many commercial broadcasters screened American imports. Each of the BBC’s nine television channels and ten national radio stations will be reviewed, although few expect any big casualties.

The alleged Lilliputian ambitions strike me as being not quite as they appear. The monolith still seeks to take OUR cash to fund innate bias.