The embattled BBC spent hundreds of thousands of your pounds on headhunters to recruit the last D-G, George Entwistle, who has departed after just 40 days.<\/p>\n
They could save licence-payers the same again by appointing the editor of the Horsington Blog<\/em> as the Director General. It would be nice to do something useful, and the money would come in handy.<\/p>\n Here\u2019s my list of priorities. \u00a0Sell off BBC 2 and 3, Radios 1 and ,2, halve the website. <\/strong>Use the money to improve programme quality (especially sport) and slash the licence fee.<\/p>\n Light a bonfire under the news<\/strong>. Ensure political neutrality, ban political correctness, nannyism, boring pressure group spokesmen\u00a0and reporting on events before they happen. Give Humphrys a final warning on interrupting (and that Montagu woman too).<\/p>\n Eradicate<\/strong> nepotism, cronyism, luvvyism and swearing.<\/p>\n Ban<\/strong> the phrases \u201cstepping aside\u201d, \u201cgoing forward\u201d, \u201cplatform\u201d, \u201cgenre\u201d and other meaningless twaddle. “Showcase” is not a verb.<\/p>\n Appoint a new BBC trust<\/strong>. Elections anyone?<\/p>\n It is surely only a matter of time before they contact me for interview, but I must make it clear from the outset that I will not move to Manchester. Horsington is so much better! <\/em><\/p>\n A man called Neil Turner has created a Government e-petition to hold a referendum to scrap the TV licence fee. You can sign the petition here <\/a><\/em><\/p>\n If you would like to influence the editor’s first 100 days at the Beeb, please send in a comment.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The embattled BBC spent hundreds of thousands of your pounds on headhunters to recruit the last D-G, George Entwistle, who has departed after just 40 days. They could save licence-payers the same again by appointing the editor of the Horsington Blog as the Director General. It would be nice to do something useful, and the … Continue reading “Should Blog editor apply for BBC D-G position?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2757],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6glYD-zi","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2188"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2202,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2188\/revisions\/2202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/horsington.blog2.idnet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nDe-layer the management<\/strong>. It has long been held that the BBC exists to create meaningless jobs for gobbledegook-spouting lefty middle managers. Let\u2019s get rid of a few layers and see if it makes a difference. If the man on the Clapham omnibus doesn\u2019t understand a BBC job title \u2013out!<\/p>\n