Chris

I don’t know what you want but I want neither a right-wing BBC nor a left-wing one. I do want a BBC that doesn’t think it’s its mission to treat highly contentious, niche social movements as simple expressions of diversity to be taught, embraced and complied with and doesn’t allow the political views of its newsroom staff to leak into its processes so that editing errors are not only made but unnoticed and then, eventually, covered up and, finally, defensively explained away rather than simply corrected and apologised for. None of those things are either left or right wing, they are the bare minimum standard we ought to be able to expect from a state broadcaster paid for by everyone. I don’t care about the new DG’s politics, I do care that they understand what the BBC is for, what it is not for, and has the balls to lay that law down in the Panorama office, to the LGBTWTF network and wherever else it needs telt.