Royally...

At sensitive times, clumsy management decisions don't help the workers' mood.   The current trails on the BBC World Service - apparently, your Royal Wedding station  - bring groans, winces, sighs, and the odd boot lobbed at nearby speakers.  Listeners have noted that "countdowns" (91 days to go) are more usually associated with moonshots.

There's also an editorial conflict.  A long time ago, offerings called News About Britain and Network UK were a feature of World Service output - dropped because they were too parochial and insufficiently "global".

If you can't listen, you can get an overview of this distinctly middleweight output about the Windsors and the Middletons, and their apparent international significance, on special pages of BBC News Online, when many a once sturdy journalist seems to have been turned to produce royal mediagobble.  ("Can Kate's gown really stay a secret ?"  "Dorset jewellers make ring shortlist" and much more).  And, if you're a major international company, there are advertising and sponsorship opportunities on BBC World and bbc.com  Extreme Weddings ? Royal Wedding update modules ?

Who could be behind this remarkable assault on the normal editorial judgements taken by BBC News?  For some, the Byford Gap can't appear soon enough.