Some annotated jottings about Mark Thompson's MacTaggart lecture.
"Top-slicing is firmly off the agenda".
I'm afraid there's still time for this, if Jeremy Hunt finds something he'd rather spend the money on.
"[Audiences] want the best and they want it all year round, which is why nowadays we play pieces like Sherlock, The Normans and Rev in high summer."
I'm afraid that's an example of capitalising on unexpected success.
[Our opponents' tactics] "Exaggerated claims about waste and inefficiency. Nit-picking about the detailed mechanisms of governance and accountability. Even some – not all, but some of the calls for greater transparency".
I'm afraid it's not just the newspapers. The Coalition can't afford to halt the drive for transparency in the public sector. It's key to winning what will be diminishing public support for spending cuts.
[The future of the organisation] "Simpler structures, fewer layers, fewer management boards".This could be really radical. At the moment there are four boards that matter - Vision, Audio & Music, Journalism, and Future Media & Technology. It will be a very clever DG/management consultant who cracks this one. But it's vital to drive down the number of apparatchiks, and to reduce those salaries that have unnecessarily strayed above £200k.
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