Summary
Thompson is supposed to be a director general with vision, a broadcaster who can see the shapes in the kaleidoscopic digital future and make plans accordingly, and yet this is the second time in just two and a half years that he has found it necessary to restructure the corporation at the expense of thousands of jobs. Rupert Murdoch, Paul Dacre and their armies of scribes never tire of portraying the Pete Principle as elitist and the licence fee as a tax levied by middle-class liberals so they can make programmes to please each other.
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Why We Should Worry About the Bbc
My American friend Pete, who works in the oil industry, has lived in Britain for nearly 30 years. Ask him why he likes it here and he says: "Three letters: BBC." Pete believes not only that the BBC is good to watch and listen to, but that it...
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