Reading Mark Thompson's blog so you don't have to...

214 comments posted so far - moderators have probably gone to bed at 1100pm. Here's some good ones to the DG on the topic of 6Music

You persist in the fiction that it is worth spending ten times 6Music’s budget to maintain BBC3, a station whose only output of note in the last two years appears to be Being Human, and consists otherwise of Eastenders repeats, Doctor Who repeats, cheap imports, and the towering cultural icons that are ‘Hotter Than My Daughter’ and ‘Snog, Marry, Avoid’. A station that makes Sky One look like a beacon of cultural endeavour, with nothing of note that could not be broadcast on BBC1 or BBC2 instead. Which has the lowest by far approval rating of any BBC TV channel. Whose annual budget could support 6Music for a decade or more. Words fail me.

You have to ask how axing Jarvis Cocker, Lauren Laverne, Steve Lamacq, Guy Garvey, Adam & Joe, Richard Herring, Marc Riley, Craig Charles etc etc etc (I could go on), who are all on 6Music, and keeping the likes of Steve Wright and Vernon Kay, on Radios 2 and 1 respectively, can in any way possibly be described as "putting quality first"?!

You know I have the strangest notion that Mr Thompson doesn't read any of these comments.
That's why all the passion about the stupid and short-sighted decision to close 6 Music is better spent over on the consultation site, where, hopefully we can convince the Trust (who have to approve such a poor act of judgement) that Mr Thomson doesn't know what he's doing here.
He really considers radios 1,2 and 6 Music as all offering 'pop music'?

Mr Thompson is probably now being driven home from TVC - with the Paxman reading of the BBC4 schedule ringing in his ears. Night night.