BBC boss puts out noise alert
NewsAt a staff briefing today, the BBC D-G Tim Davie urged his colleagues to ignore the ‘noise’ surrounding recent policy decisions. oise, apparently, signifies public disagreement and is to be blocked out at all costs by loyalists.
Davie said: ‘We’ve got such a fantastic set of leaders here at a time when everyone seems to have a view about the BBC.’
It must be getting warm in the bunker.
Seems like “a set of leaders” is all that’s left. Well, things eventually happen in bunkers…
Wow…I have always admired the public interest for the arts in England. I hope clearer minds will prevail.
Sounds like he’s feeling the heat
Read the Lunchtime O’Boulez column in the current Easter issue of Private Eye on page 19 on the BBC climb down over the BBC singers fiasco. The problem with the BBC is obvious far to many wee Chiefs with pompous job titles and not enough Indians. No wonder it is broke.
Its the same with HMRC. I am trying to sort out a National Insurance matter, the buggers are not contactable by telephone and they do not reply to letters. I have had to invoke my MP to set up a parliamentary inquiry into the HMRC-NI shambles and instruct my Belfast solicitor to serve notice on them to answer my cumulative correspondence and expedite the issue 100%.
No doubt it will end up mentioned by “Gavel Basher”.
A happy Easter to all.
Why is he even still in post?! (Answer: because he’s a,Tiry placement, appointed to help destroy the BBCs reputation with as many different constituencies as possible: TV (Gary Lineker), Radio2 (Ken Bruce), R3 (BBC Singers etc), R4 (Rev Richard Cole). )
Lunchtime O’Boulez points out in the last paragraph of his current piece in the Easter edition of Private Eye on page 19.
“The nearest there has been to a meaningful strategy for BBC music provision came in a 2012 review that rejected the idea of cutting the Singers and orchestras as inconsistent with the corporation’s editorial needs and delivery to audiences. At that time Tim Davie, then Director of audio and music but now BBC DG called the Singers and orchestras, er a “core part of the BBC’s public service remit. What changed?”
Astounding (but sadly, no longer surprising) myopia.
So put your fingers in your ears and go la-la-la. It doesn’t solve the problem. It doesn’t make it go away. The government still hates you. The people at the top are still trying to destroy everything that makes the BBC great and world-respected.
Not warm enough!
How sad the change from, ‘Great pride that its ours’, to ‘They are are a disgrace’.
– ‘Lions led by asses’
If Mr. Davie had even an ounce of self respect, he would have resigned before now and taken his no doubt exceedingly high BBC pension. I remember the fuss when his predecessor as Director of Audio and Music, Jenny Abramsky, retired from the BBC in 2008 and pulled down a humungous and horrendously ridiculous nearly £4 million pension pot. And she was only 61! She has been earning significant salaries with other organizations ever since.