Monday 12th November

Incredible times we are living through.  Most commentators, who by the way have either worked for or still are working for the BBC, are saying that this is the biggest crisis the BBC has ever faced.  We have just lost the newly appointed Director General, either through incredible bad luck, or some sort of jealousy based conspiracy of silence amongst his immediate subordinates which has led to his downfall.  The chairman of the BBC Trust, Lord Patton – a supposedly safe pair of hands is next in the frame for the big heave-ho.  Everyone agrees that the BBC needs another complete management shake-up, which must be urgently implemented by whoever is the next Director General.  One wonders just how many senior management shake-ups there have been since Lord Birt was sent in to sort the place out.  There is talk that Newsnight is now so tainted it will soon be axed altogether.  Has the world gone crazy?  At worst this was a story which was badly sourced and not thoroughly checked, and apologies have now been made to the very person the programme deliberately did NOT name.  So what?  Newspapers get stuff wrong all the time.  ITV has been guilty of far worse and escapes with at worst a slapped wrist.  I suspect this is far more likely a concerted Tory attempt to smear the BBC so that they will NEVER again investigate rumours and stories about senior Tory politicians than any real failing of the BBC.  True, there may well have been a degree of bad management etc, etc.   But really is this all front page news?  We are still in the middle of a worldwide financial recession, the problems with Greece and the Eurozone do not get any better, Syria is falling apart in front of our eyes, Iran may or may not be close to having their own Nuclear bomb, America is about to fall off a fiscal cliff with probably disastrous consequences – and all the Media are obsessed by is what is happening at the BBC.   And the rest of the country is only worried about who will win X factor and what bush-tucker trials Nadiine Dorries will have to face.  Grow up all of you.