[kreuzberger]

Spin the bottle-of-blame and it must point to the enthusiastically-nourished wee KKKaroline stamping those lyin' feet, which doubtlessly spill out over her navy-blue court shoes.

Upshot: the ambassador's Sunday lunch was ruined, Tim Davie is history, and the News CEO has also taken the bath. A shabby do, about which few care, such are the depths to which the BBC has fallen - or was pushed.

[kreuzberger]

I shall be tuned in to LBC tomorrow at 10.59, just as the bloated Swiss tory hands over to a decent journalist who, as recently as last week, trained his sights on R4 Today.

Even considering his history with the Corporation, my guess is that the BBC is the hill he would die on.

[Boiler]

Tim Davie has resigned.

Do fucking WHAT?!

[Boiler]

Well, you have to say that the BBC’s directors general are pretty good at carrying the can and resigning when something goes wrong. A dmned sight better than Tory ministers, Prime or otherwise.

They don't always get to resign though - IMO Milne was pushed and there are possibly others.

Robbie Gibb remains though.

[kreuzberger]

If Gibb is ha-ha-stayin'-alive, you can bet 10 shekels that Trump's mobsters have been taking wider soundings.

[kreuzberger]

If Gibb is ha-ha-stayin'-alive, you can bet 10 shekels that Trump's mobsters have been taking wider soundings.

Right on cue;

[satnav]

I wonder what stories Panorama are currently working on that somebody wanted closing down? Perhaps they have been doing some digging into Nigel Farage or Richard Tice. Or may be an investigation into the IDF.

[Oboogie]

Trump seems pleased with progress so far, I wonder who his pick for DG is? Laurence Fox is not swamped with work at the moment - just a thought.

[davidjay]

It's like a reading the works of a hyperactive child, off their face on e numbers and fruit shoots.

[mattomac]

Why they hell do you even have to doctor his speeches mind.

Unless you want them to make sense and even then you would struggle.

My dad watches the 6pm news every day so I have to when I visit. And we had two asylum articles sandwiched with a story about reform and then oddly an Ukraine story, then several other stories and then another Ukrainian story. The latter as someone who studied this would be an attempt to skewer framing, the former would be framing Der Stürmer would suggest was possibly being laid on too thick.

Also in the piece they referred to the “coalition of the willing” as the “so called coalition of the willing”.

Which is frankly appalling for what prides itself as an independent public service broadcaster.

Whole thing was baffling, the local news wasn’t too bad but seemed to rely too much on nimbies.

[Youngian]

The new DG needs to order a new down the line Reithian edit of the offending a Panorama documentary.
This is reminiscent of Andtew Gilligan's Dr Kelly story which was in essence true but was guilty of cutting corners.