Two heads better than...

BBC hacks hold their breath; "Are you letting enough nutters on the air ?" is a possible paraphrase for the next searing Trust investigation, on "breadth of voice".  Here are the ineffably pompous minutes from their May meeting. Would you like to be asked how your understanding of the concept of breadth of voice has evolved ?

75.1 The Trust’s Head of Editorial Standards presented proposals for the Trust’s next impartiality review which would consider how the BBC achieves “breadth of voice” in its reporting. 


75.2 Members noted that, in 2007, the Trust had published a report on safeguarding impartiality which contained guiding principles to inform the BBC’s approach to ensuring impartiality in the face of rapid technological and social change. They agreed that it was now appropriate to assess implementation of the report’s recommendations and how far the BBC’s understanding of the concept of breadth of voice had evolved.


75.3 Members agreed that the review should examine how the BBC achieves breadth of voice in its reporting of a number of current issues, to be determined. They agreed that a single author should be appointed to conduct the review.

This "single author" will clearly will have a brain the size of a minor planet, and demonstrate the Trust's broad approach to breadth of voice. Shouldn't there be a plurality of brains involved, or have I got it wrong again ?