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Title: "THE" Crisis
Post by Administrator on Dec 19^th, 2012, 8:39pm

If you have any thoughts or opinions on the recent major upheavals at "The BBC" post them in this thread.

As an ex-member of staff, no matter where you worked, you must have an opinion regarding the present Saville-Newsnight situation.

This period has been described as one of the most serious crises the BBC has ever faced.

Post your thoughts here, but keep them brief, and above all, legal!

Tell our fellow readers where you worked and why you hold these opinions.

What do you think the long-term effects will be?

Why did The BBC get into this situation?

This is your forum.

Title: Re: "THE" Crisis
Post by Roundabout on Dec 19^th, 2012, 11:23pm

As both an engineer in my early days in the 60s and latterly as a radio producer till retirement in the late 80s I was used to closer supervision of my work and certainly there was usually some management presence at the receiving end. I noticed after retirement when all the business of sound levels was being discussed for instance that there was no indication that upper management was actually listening to the output and the subsequent dreadful revelations about broken chains of command and devolved editorial control made it clear that the new order was desperately short in the 'hands on' department both technically and editorially. There was never a time when my manager was not listening because he was 'out'!
It is a great shame that so many talented and hard working present day staff have been let down by 'business management' regimes which sound more like the way banks are run than broadcasting should be.

Title: Re: "THE" Crisis
Post by Mikej on Dec 23^rd, 2012, 6:06pm

The Observer says :-

The BBC must lay the ghost of Birt's broadcasting corporation.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/dec/23/bbc-lay-ghost-birts-broadcasting-corporation

Didn't we all say that one day the BBC would become a "Publisher Broadcaster" with no staff etc etc?

Mike

Title: Re: "THE" Crisis
Post by JohnW on Dec 24^th, 2012, 9:30am

What an excellent piece of journalism! [Thanks for the link.]
And really what many of the troops have advocated for years - Give them a sense of 'belonging' again.