Unfortunately, all singing, all dancing he might be but all seeing he ain’t.
Tony Hall the new DG has declared that the BBC is not left of centre.
How can the public hope for him to address this acute problem if he won’t even acknowledge that it exists?
In his Chatalongahall Humphrys, without using the words ‘licence’, asked the question whether the ——- fee should be increased.
I could see Hall’s opinion was ‘as soon as decently possible, and by as much as we can’.
Whether the ——- fee should exist at all was of course not discussed.
I heard him talk on Nickys show this morning and groaned. It was new Boss, same as the old Boss.
I notice the caller that suggested a 49% privatisation of the BBC was basically ignored and I do believe I caught the ” the license fee is good value” speech.
I agree with Anthony Hall that the BBC is not “left of centre”; it is “very left of centre”. The Marxist Frankfurt-School attempts to destabilise British society are more than just an excess of liberalism.
He looks mental.
At what other organisation would the new CEO arrive and prance around like a fool?? And they lap it up!! More of the same, but I think the public are running out of patience!!
Not seen Steve Ballmer of Microsoft after he took over from Bill Gates?
Of course he is not going to admit that the BBC is biased. He worked there for many years and through the BBC became a fully paid up member of the liberal left establishment, and like most of that elite has become wealthy on the backs of the tax payer.
If he did admit there was bias then he would have to do something about it and the methods used to deflect criticism in the past , internal inquiries or ‘independent’ inquiries, chaired by fellow members of the liberal left establishment, are wearing a bit thin. So there might have to be a real inquiry that came up with facts and recommendations that actually made a difference. This would be intolerable.
His job is to increase BBC influence and to use that influence to further the causes that the Liberal Left wish to see implemented. His main task will be to ensure that the BBC is not out flanked in the control of new media. This could be very dangerous as it would be a way in which the British people gained easy access to the truth 24/7, which would lead to the rapid unraveling of the Liberal left agenda. So it is crucial that the BBC gain control of new media or, as a minimum, swamp it with their own services. Of course a future Labour government will help them all it can and no doubt find a way of giving them more funds to corner the market.
I don’t understand the new technologies but the Tories should be acting now to sell the very long term licenses to the market and to ensure that there is great diversity in the various providers so as to hamper the BBC as much as possible in the future.
“How can the public hope for him to address this acute problem if he won’t even acknowledge that it exists?”
It’s worse, it’s not so much that he won’t acknowledge it: what if he really believes it doesn’t exist?
Liberalism is normality. Conservatism( not the political party sort) is deviance and perversity. They really believe this. Hence, as you say ,there is no problem in their eyes.
Reality has nothing to do with it. The best we can hope for is a complete economic collapse and a return to reality. That this should be necessary is an indictment of the worst of generations -the 68ers.
I suspect he was appointed so that the Media, Culture and Sport Select Committee can dump a load of shit on him next month.
‘How can the public hope for him to address this acute problem if he won’t even acknowledge that it exists?
It will thus have to be addressed… ‘uniquely’.
Hence if there’s a problem, a clear one… one that really can’t be ignored or swept under the carpet, you commission several internal secret investigations at vast expense, redact the bits you don’t like and FoI any that may stray, then profess yourself comfortable in the belief that, as ever, the BBC has got it about right. Again.
Then release the hounds on any not the BBC who may only commit a fraction of the abuses, often at not cost other than to shareholders, on the basis of ‘holding the power to account’.
Lord Hall Hall is a rotten head atop a pile of stinking chump.
Looks like Roy Walker to me!
I was just going to say that I can still remember his finest hour and in honour of the new DG –
Here is some of my right-wing paranoia, see what you think. In the part of the clip where they had to guess the phrase “Cut a long story short”, they cut the strip of five letters S-T-O-R-Y between the S- and the rest. Are we meant subliminally to associate TORY and cuts? It reminds me of a Soviet propaganda picture of Margaret Thatcher, standing at a party conference in front of the stupid slogan “Forward Together” … except that you can see neither the FOR nor the D TOGETHER.
Excuse me if I’m getting slow in my old age …
“Mark Thompson’s BBC past haunts”
Preview from ‘Spectator’ article (£):-
“‘One of Lord Hall’s predecessors, Mark Thompson, is toiling away as chief executive of the New York Times. But he’s devised a brilliant wheeze to give his old chums at Broadcasting House a bit of extra work. Later this month his newspaper will co-host a Social Media Summit at the Times Center in New York. Thompson promises an ‘exciting line-up’ including world-class media luminaries like Matthew Eltringham, ‘Head of Web Site and Events at the BBC Academy College of Journalism’, and Dmitry Shishkin, ‘Digital Development Editor at BBC Global News’. These sages will discuss ‘journalism’s current use of social media and investigate the challenges ahead’. Perhaps someone at the New York Times could look up ‘exciting’ in the dictionary.’”
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/steerpike/2013/04/mark-thompsons-bbc-past-haunts/
The full article can be read here without £
Mark Thompson’s BBC past haunts
It should be titled “How to Increase Revenue With….”, because that’s what it’s all about. That’s what Thompson did best at the BBC, and that’s why he got the NY Times job. Digital revenue schemes.