BBC publishes conclusions of governance review

[Guest]

Press release and pdf now available.

There isn't much radically new except that the Executive and Trust are showing signs of getting to grips with trying to sort the dividing lines out between them. The Service Licence processes will remain, and "The Trust will find new ways for licence fee payers to contribute to setting objectives for the BBC; to developing and reviewing the licences, as now;". The inclusion of 'as now' is a bit of a depressing endorsement of the status quo, so we'll have to wait to see how much more responsive the Trust is prepared to be.

Russ

[french frank]

Thanks, Russ. I'd have missed that.

[BBMmk2]

Doesn't sound promising?

[Gordon]

These are the gamekeepers explaining why they let the fox in the chicken coop. They can't do much at this stage except patch up and concentate their minds on what they were supposed to be about in the first place. Howard Stringer might do some good - if he's allowed to. All a bit introspective which is fair enough but where is the intent to improve links with viewers and listeners? Patten makes play of licence fee payers ' needs but what about communicating with them better? And I dont mean constant tweeting either.

The weaknesses of the current governance will not be sorted overnight and those weaknesses allowed the various debacles of recent weeks to emerge. The root cause of some of the BBC ailments is poor governance but that's what you get from part timers whose position on the Trust isn't "a proper job" when it should be. It will take them the rest of the charter period to get it straight and doubtless it will inform the next Charter debate which is beginning to rev up a bit.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

well corporate capture proceeds apace with Stringer .... the Trust members are a shabby lot of media execs with not much going for them and that Coyle economist wittering on about economic models of service

there are no masters of the universe there; no humanists; no scientists; no artists; no writers; no thinkers of weight; no one to give politicians a fright; no one to inspire anything at all; just market dribbling gobblydegooks ... keeping the bbc execs company in their jargon dribbling fur lined cages ... VIVA PEPSI eh .....