Point missed

I've been belatedly pointed to a letter in the Guardian from BBC Trustee Diane Coyle about the the Trust's decision to block BBC management plans for a local broadband service. She says " The major reason for our decision was the evidence that such a service would not meet the demand for better local news. The public mainly want this news on radio and TV, not via the internet, and we have asked BBC management to bring forward new proposals to meet that demand". This seems naive. 400 extra staff working around the UK, the bulk of them video journalists, would have massively improved the content of existing BBC output, giving local and regional editors much more stuff to choose from, rather than living in a world where everything you decide to cover HAS to run.