Vatican in Hostile take over of BBC

[Das_Boot]

I have it on good authority that the vatican have now increased their offer. However I believe we should resist this hostile takeover bid as it will drive up the license fee.
Although it seems that the BBC have capitulated we need to stand firm and demand our BBC back.

 

[paulskent]

Has anybody else noticed that there must be about 10 BBC "correspondents" in St Peter's Sguare. They are all working for different entities e.g. Five Live, BBC Television, News 24 etc etc etc. Surely there must be some opportunity for "right sizing" here by sharing the resources between the different cost centres..

I am a big Fan of the BBC, but I think they should at least make an effort to keep the costs down.. All they really need is a camera and sound man over there and they could do the rest from the office.

PK.

 

[Das_Boot]

There are roughly 2% of the population in this country who are regular church goers. Of those maybe half of a percent are Catholic. What the hell is going on with the BBC can anyone tell me. It can only be that the Vatican has taken over somehow or as you say some god botherer in charge has flipped his lid.

They could stick a picture of the vatican behind the reporter for all anyone cared. No wonder they are shedding 2000 jobs as I read in the Eye. Too soon wont be quick enough.

 

[Sgeir]

Know what you mean, but strongly disagree. Quite apart from J-P having been an enormously powerful and influential world leader (aside from his religious credentials), each BBC station and programme has its own style. If all the news reports were identical, or at least from the same people (with the same analysis, thought process, delivery etc), there would be no choice in BBC news diversity.

Those who are hostile to the BBC (certain media tycoons) would love to have just that policy implemented - so that their own media could whinge about poor BBC coverage and lack of diversity - and seek to close it all back to a couple radio and a couple of TV channels.

As to "rightsizing" (is this HRspeak? /forums/images/graemlins/cool.gif), looks like it's about to happen to Beeb, and that news will take a big hit.

 

[Das_Boot]

Talk about lack of diversity. Is blanket coverage by radio and tv diversitiy I think not. You are right they will probably dowsize in all the wrong places getting dumber and dumber. It is tragic what is happening to the BBC

 

[Peppermint]

Re: Dumb already

A homely young girl report on "Breakfast" couldn't wait to tell me a fascinating fact this very AM.

It appears that the beebs finest have noticed that when one is queing "the people at the front are getting in quite quickly, while these people, nearer the back, have much longer to wait."

So there you have it. Back to the studio.