The editor of Today is off to a new job next Monday.
You may think ‘Good, perhaps we might have a different take on world events under new management’..…as always with the BBC you’d be wrong.
Ceri Thomas is now ‘Head of News’….in charge of just about everything:
‘The BBC has confirmed that Ceri Thomas has been appointed head of programmes at BBC News.
Currently the editor of Radio 4 Today, he starts his new role on Monday 18 March.
He will replace Stephen Mitchell, who resigned from the BBC after the Pollard review criticised management over a dropped Newsnight report featuring allegations of child abuse against Jimmy Savile.
Thomas will oversee all major current affairs output, investigative journalism and interview programmes such as Panorama, Today and Newsnight.
His remit also covers news programmes on Radio 1, Radio 5 Live and Asian Network.
He described his new role as “an enormous privilege and a huge challenge”.
“So much of the heart and soul of BBC News lives in this department. It’s full of variety and ambition and endeavour.
“It’s where we take risks – calculated editorial risks, but risks all the same – and it’s vital that we don’t stop taking them.” ‘
Trust me — there will be more of the same because al-beeb is structurally shaky. A Tory MP(sorry forgot his name) on news 24 yesterday at around 3pm was speaking about Abu Qatada, and opined that the beeboids were yet again taking the side of terrorists.
All we should get from these clowns is what they see and hear, not what they think! Oh, sorry, that would be called what exactly? OBJECTIVE REPORTING!
You are forgetting their “Mission to Explain”.
P.S. I think somebody on a previous thread said the MP you mentioned is Peter Bone.
When was the last time a bBBC job went to an outsider?
Not lately, and not the top ones, that’s for sure:
Liz Gibbons moves to BBC Global News
Former deputy Newsnight editor Liz Gibbons has been appointed as commissioning editor at BBC Global News.
She was acting editor of Newsnight when the programme broadcast an item on November 2 that led to former senior Conservative politician Lord McAlpine being wrongly linked to child abuse.
The report resulted in the resignation of the then BBC director general, George Entwistle, and the corporation paying more than £185,000 to Lord McAlpine after a libel settlement was agreed.
Gibbons will commission programmes and content for BBC World News and its website http://www.bbc.com/news.
The BBC says she was chosen as the best candidate after an open process for an internally advertised vacancy.
You can have too much diversity, apparently.
Will Self becomes the intellectual leader of Radio 4, and the producer of the Left-leaning Today programme on Radio 4 moves on to be head of BBC News. Is it possible for anyone at the BBC to approach the intellectual higher ground from any angle other than the extreme Left?
Come to think of it, wasn’t Paxman bitching to Pollard (the tiny bit that wasn’t completely redacted, I mean) that the problem with BBC News is that it had been taken over by radio people who just didn’t get it? Guess they’ll have to up his compensation package again.
“He will replace Stephen Mitchell, who resigned from the BBC.”
Resigned into index-linked retirement actually.
Yes, I remember when they were trying to call it “retire” and not “resign”.
For David P. (USA) — open process for an internally advertised vacancy— in beeboid-speak, “open” means “internally”. Whole new language here! Is that why I didn’t hear about it? Damn! Another one missed.
I’m beginning to think Humpty Dumpty wrote the BBC Style Guide.
O/T but the current Open thread is collapsing under the weight of BBC bias, but this was an interesting and pertinent take on the Gaza tunnels episode and other related things by Ray Cook.
http://www.raymondcook.net/blog/index.php/2013/03/10/helas-in-gaza-and-other-stories/