Reverberations

I point readers to an interesting think piece in the Telegraph, by Greg Dyke.

On the gossip front, he suggests, at the end, that Lord Patten was pushing to give the DG job to another insider permanently without further search - if even half-true, it can only damage Patten's reputation inside and outside the Trust. On the strategy front, he suggests breaking apart news from current affairs, so that investigative journalism is looked after in one specialist area. On the structural front, he suggests The Trust becomes a specialist regulator of the BBC, with no say in appointments, which should be left to an outsider in a new role as Chairman of the Executive.  Of course, he then goes too far, and suggests the first holder of this role should be Sir Christopher Bland - the man who chose Greg Dyke over Tony Hall back in 1999.