I've tried again with the BBC 'local' online offering, by searching 'Liverpool' from the news page. Over the last three days, there have been 15 'stories' published. Four of them feature the various thoughts of Jurgen Klopp, four other stories are about Liverpool FC, and one is a national story about football fashion.
Meanwhile acting Director of England, Jason Horton, was deployed to defend the cuts to BBC local radio output on Radio 4's Feedback, and said management were listening to both audience and staff feedback. Director of Nations Rhodri Talfan-Davies didn't make the same schoolboy error on Newswatch, with Samira Ahmed. His grim visage of extreme management seriousness was slightly undermined by having his laptop on a wobbly table. Folded beermats, Rhodri.
Staff feedback? There are NO means, beyond directly emailing someone, by which BBC Staff can comment on a specific policy. There's only an annual survey, in which workers get to answer such urgent questions as whether they feel they can be their 'authentic selves' at work. The whole internal communications effort is a one-way, top-down system in which the BBC sends propaganda to its staff, telling them how inclusive, caring and diverse the Corporation is. There is literally no way for Staff to feed anything back to management on a policy like the decimation of Local Radio. If you raise a controversial issue in a 'staff engagement' Zoom meeting, you get interrupted & told. "I think we should address this offline." You will then either be ignored, or you might get a short meeting with a manager, at which they tell you the exact same thing they were saying in the Zoom.
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