Lord Hall's Arts Offensive is the victim of some friendly fire in The Observer. Catherine Bennett, partner of the totemic Today presenter, John Humphrys, lays into the strategy pretty comprehensively, ending with a quote from W. B. Yeats' poem, The Second Coming - "the blood-dimmed tide is [most definitely] loosed."
It's a poem that's inspired Star Trek stories, Woody Allen, Joni Mitchell, and an episode of The Sopranos.
Catharine cites the planned return of The Clangers to BBC tv in 2015 as a further sign of a broadcasting apocalypse.
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