All entries for Wednesday 18 July 2007

A very BBC 'amnesty'

The BBC holds an amnesty for programme producers to come forward and admit to problems with competitions and phone-votes in the past.

Then they suspend the producers who come forward, and suggest those responsible might get end up getting fired.

1) What part of the word ‘amnesty’ don’t the BBC understand?
2) With job cuts on the horizon, why are the BBC so determined to undermine staff morale even more?
3) How many producers haven’t admitted to failings? I know of one or two that haven’t owned up…

The ‘trust’ issue seems pretty typical of the BBC to me. One or two programmes catch a cold, and the whole thing blows up into a major drama that defines the reign of a Director-General.

I’m a big believer in the licence fee model for funding the Beeb. But I can’t help wondering that it would help if they were less closely tied to the government and the ironically-titled BBC Trust. Everyone in TV Centre and White City seems to be walking on egg-shells at the moment.

Christopher Doidge : 18 Jul 2007 16:55 |  Tags: Amnesty BBC Media Television Trust |  Comments (4) |  Close comments |  Report a problem