Exclusive: Anxious BBC won’t disclose costs of cutting orchestras
NewsA freedom-of-information request, seeking to clarifyb the cost savings yielded by the BBC’s plans to cut its performing ensembles, has been met with a straight bat and a very nervous suited smile.
Here’s the BBC’s reply: If held, the information you requested is held for the purposes of ‘art, journalism or literature’. The Act provides that the BBC is not obliged to disclose this type of information.
Don’t you just love ‘if held’? Unhappy insiders keep leaking the orchestra plans which the upper echelons pretend might not exist.
Upstairs at Broadcasting House is a parallel universe where truth is an infrequent visitor.
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