Chairman of the BBC

[Paul22118]

Have a good sweep out while the going is good and install David Dimbleby as the new Chairman of the BBC. Discuss.

[ichkeria]

This isn't going to be a popular view I'm afraid but I suspect that if you are going to consult meaningfully and constructively then you probably need an approach along the lines of the one outlined. Otherwise you end up performing the sort of dispiriting exercise like the street interviews with the good folk of Warrington yesterday. Thrust a mic under someone's gob and ask them if they like paying the licence fee: guess what they're going to say (especially yesterday!) :-)

[seadogg]

Some Warringtonians of my acquaintance don't even like paying for a round.

[Zacs-Master]

Ichk - The process is, I suspect, to keep public opinion at bay. Anyone who has the time to seek out and attend a research session is probably not your average license fee payer and as such the research will be flawed in it's most basic form.

[jno]

waste of time, Ichkeria, everyone has already decided that sending an email is too much like hard work, and the BBC is lying about wanting to hear the public's views, and anyway it's easier to sit at your computer telling AB how hypocritical and unfair it all is.

[bazwillrun]

Auntie is virtually a branch of the civil service its run the same way and along the same lines.

its out of touch and archaic and will go the way of the dodo, its just a matter of when not if.

[Hopkirk]

Bring back Greg Dyke - he was doing a good job and was pushed out for political reasons.

[ichkeria]

"waste of time, Ichkeria, everyone has already decided that sending an email is too much like hard work, and the BBC is lying about wanting to hear the public's views, and anyway it's easier to sit at your computer telling AB how hypocritical and unfair it all is."

In the words of a famous "BBC Civil Servant": you might say that jno, I couldn't possibly comment :-)

[Paul22118]

Sadly today's Mail quotes DD as saying he is ineligible as he is now too old at 74. There apparently is an age limit for the appointment.