The bbc, again.

Eagleman13 said:
New DG, poor sod . . .

www.bbc.co.uk

Is ex-Google boss Matt Brittin the right person to steer the BBC?

BBC media editor Katie Razzall says the former Google exec has been chosen for his insider knowledge of big tech.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk
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Tough job he has 3 major problems in no particular order:

- Replacing the Licence Fee
- Percieved Political Bias
- Falling viewer numbers

Licence Fee
The BBC actually wants to scrap it because it is costly to run and they get pelters when a single unemployed mum ends in in court for non payment. The preferred funding model is to add it onto the broadband bill or have some form of staggered fee based on income.

If he has any commonsense he will start to cut back on peripheral areas that the BBC has got involved in and save the taxpayer money. Then he will have a stronger argument with Parliament. Constantly asking for more money as the BBC grows and grows is not the answer.

Political Bias
He has got to get to grips with this. Clearly the protocols within the beeb are not working as they keeping making the same silly mistakes and always one way.

Viewing Numbers
The Kings Speech on Christmas day had the biggest audience of around 4m that should be really worrying. It's not just the beeb the other terrestrial channels have the same issue as streaming is wiping the floor with them.
 
Badger11 said:
Tough job he has 3 major problems in no particular order:

- Replacing the Licence Fee
- Percieved Political Bias
- Falling viewer numbers

Licence Fee
The BBC actually wants to scrap it because it is costly to run and they get pelters when a single unemployed mum ends in in court for non payment. The preferred funding model is to add it onto the broadband bill or have some form of staggered fee based on income.

If he has any commonsense he will start to cut back on peripheral areas that the BBC has got involved in and save the taxpayer money. Then he will have a stronger argument with Parliament. Constantly asking for more money as the BBC grows and grows is not the answer.

Political Bias
He has got to get to grips with this. Clearly the protocols within the beeb are not working as they keeping making the same silly mistakes and always one way.

Viewing Numbers
The Kings Speech on Christmas day had the biggest audience of around 4m that should be really worrying. It's not just the beeb the other terrestrial channels have the same issue as streaming is wiping the floor with them.
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The time to rescue the BBC was over twenty years ago.

It had its chance to ensure a balance between left and right....as was internally suggested but rejected.

The moment I heard that I always knew that it was on a timer. The timer is as soon as a real right wing government come in. They can sign as long a contract as they like.....as right wing people find out in the courts.....it's not what the law says it's who interprets the law that matters.

It can't be fixed, its employment base is essentially Emily Maitlis times several thousand......any new director pushing a different path would be met with institutional pushback the same way Trump was in his first admin.

It's future is either as a vastly stripped down service, a commercial station or firing the whole lot of them and make these champagne socialists actually work a real job.
 
Stirlingsays said:
The time to rescue the BBC was over twenty years ago.

It had its chance to ensure a balance between left and right....as was internally suggested but rejected.

The moment I heard that I always knew that it was on a timer. The timer is as soon as a real right wing government come in. They can sign as long a contract as they like.....as right wing people find out in the courts.....it's not what the law says it's who interprets the law that matters.

It can't be fixed, its employment base is essentially Emily Maitlis times several thousand......any new director pushing a different path would be met with institutional pushback the same way Trump was in his first admin.

It's future is either as a vastly stripped down service, a commercial station or firing the whole lot of them and make these champagne socialists actually work a real job.
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Clutches pearls !
 
Runningman said:
Clutches pearls !
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The BBC is reaching a crossroads whether it knows it or not.

As I said terrestrial TV across the world is in free fall so the current model is going to be harder and harder to defend. Quite how the BBC (and other TV companies) respond is the big question.

I have no idea what the remit of the new DG is but it would not surprise me if it is steady as she goes. The BBC is very institutionalised and I doubt will welcome change.

In an article welcoming the new DG they reference that when at Google 300 local newspapers closed because the customers could get the news free from Google. An odd thing to say considering the BBC has been criticised many time for dominating the local news media in the UK and strangling any competition. That line has now disappeared probably because someone pointed out it's tone deaf to criticise Google for being a monopoly when you yourself are one.

I am not a fan of the beeb but it will be interesting to see how he tackles there real issues (or not).
 
eaglesdare said:
Spanish woman to die by euthanasia after long legal battle with father

https://twitter.com/x/status/2037240522541076883

news.sky.com

Gang-rape victim, 25, dies by euthanasia after father's legal challenge fails

Noelia Castillo Ramos was raped on two occasions, once by her ex-boyfriend and the other by three boys in 2022. She then tried to end her life.
news.sky.com news.sky.com

Notice the difference?
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Also, read the two accounts of Farage’s complaint about family voting in the recent by election and the formal police’s response after they have investigated. Sky report that the police may have found 32 instances of more than one person in a booth/looking over a shoulder but there is no proof that influence was evident.
BBC just mentioned that nothing was found, thereby diluting the potential fraud by ignoring that there were potentially 32 reported instances.
(Maybe a latter BBC version will add those details but if Sky can report the facts you would think that the national broadcaster would be able to also).
 
HKOwen said:
Scott Mills, basic BBC salary £350K
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Gone (sacked) for those who were wondering.

Daily Mirror claims it was over a historic male friendship.

He is gay and was single at the time so why sack him? It must be bad for the BBC to react this swiftly. Apparently his dismissal took less than a week.
 
beak said:
He has had a couple of court cases which might be indicative of his behaviour.
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The BBC's stance always seemed to be reliant on whether court cases went against their employees. Look how long some of the predatory offenders were at large,...decades.
Now they're swinging the other way (oo, err, missus) and going for a precautionary approach, even though nothing is proven yet.
I assume the BBC has taken legal advice over this, and there shouldn't be any come-back, even if the legal stuff collapses. I hope.
 
Is just so hard to make an understanding of any of it any more

So many different wings / divisions of parties pushing their own beliefs be them right or wrong subjective objective

It would be good to know the breakdown of the votes by religion/ age / gay ,straight etc etc - this way could see the Spread of ppl across the parties they are voting for that get in

It would be good to see if the general public are getting all the right information to make their votes counts for them rather than “ I don’t know they all seem same” & it comes down to trust / distrust

Ask S Khan about his green house stats can he publish them & who actually validates them

All we are getting now in Croydon is Mr Perry telling us everything he has achieved - on his own ( even though a lot was not from his doing) - spam spam spam & now Labour lady promising everything she will do but with no funds only debt handed down to her
Not sure what Libs or Greens are upto in Croydon

One thing is for sure the cliMate issue must have improved globally with many many strategies undertaken

Yet bombing countries can’t be helping but who’s being held accountable for that ? No one again
 
Forest Hillbilly said:
The BBC's stance always seemed to be reliant on whether court cases went against their employees. Look how long some of the predatory offenders were at large,...decades.
Now they're swinging the other way (oo, err, missus) and going for a precautionary approach, even though nothing is proven yet.
I assume the BBC has taken legal advice over this, and there shouldn't be any come-back, even if the legal stuff collapses. I hope.
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Yes the new policy seems to be if you sack someone remain schtum.
 
Forest Hillbilly said:
The BBC's stance always seemed to be reliant on whether court cases went against their employees. Look how long some of the predatory offenders were at large,...decades.
Now they're swinging the other way (oo, err, missus) and going for a precautionary approach, even though nothing is proven yet.
I assume the BBC has taken legal advice over this, and there shouldn't be any come-back, even if the legal stuff collapses. I hope.
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Employers sack people all the time with little comeback for offences that are either not criminal or have not yet been proven in a court of law. The BBC was out of step with this which considering how high profile the organisation is was a bit silly to say the least.

In the case of Huew Edwards for instance allegations were made that did not appear to be criminal (at the time) but easily fell into the area of bringing the company into disrepute. The BBC for some reason felt it had to wait for the police which was nonsense. It was nonsense because Edwards admitted to the liaison with the young drug addict. He may not have broken the law but was still a first class scumbag and no one wants people like that in your organisation. Later of course he was guilty of a criminal offence.

I hope this a new policy. Yes you do run the risk of being taken to an employment tribunal but in the case of Huew Edwards for instance if the tribunal had found in his favour public sympathy would have been with the BBC and against the court.
 
Historic friendship sounds a bit pederasty and ominous.

If the BBC were going to sack someone for being gay that would be half the workforce gone.
 
If an industrial tribunal decides that an individual has been wrongly dismissed the tribunal awards the employee a sum of money and instruct the firm to take back that person, the firm sometimes says that the person has caused "bad blood" and fences cannot be mended in that situation the tribunal awards a further sum of money in compensation.
 
beak said:
If an industrial tribunal decides that an individual has been wrongly dismissed the tribunal awards the employee a sum of money and instruct the firm to take back that person, the firm sometimes says that the person has caused "bad blood" and fences cannot be mended in that situation the tribunal awards a further sum of money in compensation.
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Yup.

We lost a case against a lazy useless so and so although we had to pay compensation (about 9k) as my boss said it was worth it to get rid of the toxic individual. His case was all in the papers at the time and I think most people wondered how on earth the tribunal had found in his favour.
 
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