Mark Thompson has finally admitted that the BBC must cut its budgets. Not, as you might expect, because it is lavish, over-staffed and is strangling its commercial rivals to death but because it might breach its ‘statutory borrowing limit'. How awful if that happened. Oh well, nonetheless we should...
Anyone else watch Mark Thompson's and Michael Lyons' performance before the Commons culture, media and sport select committee? There was pitiful little evidence of either wearing a hair shirt - in fact, neither looked that they were particularly bothered to be there. Thompson said that the BBC...
Jonathan Ross will only get paid £4.6m of our money this year. What a shame. By suspending him without pay for 12 weeks, the BBC is hoping that by mid-January we will all have forgotten about the appalling lapse in taste and regulatory control that led to the radio programme being transmitted. And they...
