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Should Lewis Carnie Be Axed Over This?
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.Carnie should have been axed the moment he imposed Jo Whiney on Mayo's brilliant show. He's made so many other terrible decisions too, including Sounds Of The 60s on too early, not giving Tony Blakburn back Pick Of The Pops, putting Dermot O'Dreary or Gambaccini on anytime, Zoe Ball on breakfast instead of Sara Cox...I could go on. And we pay our licence fee for the likes of Carnie...
It should be noted that he made a bad decision for a bad reason.
I posted on here at the time, and I am sure I was one of many - that adding a presenter to a successful format simply to pay lip service to 'gender equality' is a recipe for disaster.
It didn't take a brain of Britain to see that - just someone who listens to both presenters and can see a mile off that they will never gel in a month of Sundays.
Carney had the front to say that the show needed 'time to bed in'!!!
Really??? It's a radio show not a newly turfed lawn!!! If Carney had the courage to admit he got it wrong earlier, they needn't have lost Mayo at all.
So having crashed and burned losing Mayo and Evans, his two major audience draws, Carney presses on with his 'gender equality' and puts Ball and Cox on instead, and they will both bomb as well - and again they will be left there until Carney can no longer pretend that they are 'bedding in'.
I understand that the BBC is a pubic organisation, had has to be seen to be 'doing the right thing' - but if that is at the expense of what it is actually for - entertaining, educating and informing - then clearly the political correct box-ticking outweighs the responsibility to deliver radio to the audience that pays for it.
Anyone can get it wrong, but no-one should be employed to continue to get it wrong, for the wrong reasons, that is the misuse of licence payers' money.
I posted on here at the time, and I am sure I was one of many - that adding a presenter to a successful format simply to pay lip service to 'gender equality' is a recipe for disaster.
It didn't take a brain of Britain to see that - just someone who listens to both presenters and can see a mile off that they will never gel in a month of Sundays.
Carney had the front to say that the show needed 'time to bed in'!!!
Really??? It's a radio show not a newly turfed lawn!!! If Carney had the courage to admit he got it wrong earlier, they needn't have lost Mayo at all.
So having crashed and burned losing Mayo and Evans, his two major audience draws, Carney presses on with his 'gender equality' and puts Ball and Cox on instead, and they will both bomb as well - and again they will be left there until Carney can no longer pretend that they are 'bedding in'.
I understand that the BBC is a pubic organisation, had has to be seen to be 'doing the right thing' - but if that is at the expense of what it is actually for - entertaining, educating and informing - then clearly the political correct box-ticking outweighs the responsibility to deliver radio to the audience that pays for it.
Anyone can get it wrong, but no-one should be employed to continue to get it wrong, for the wrong reasons, that is the misuse of licence payers' money.
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