Careful

"We’ve got to be careful at the BBC in terms of our message to the outside world".

Oh yes indeed, Tim.  The BBC Director-General relaxed in front of BBC South staff on Tuesday, and chewed the fat in Davie-speak, well aware that the NUJ ballot on strike action over cuts to local radio is active, closing on 27th February  - but seemingly not aware that someone might record his current marketing apothegms and attempts at irony. 

Snippets of his talk have arrived at the Telegraph, and are now shared across our online newspapers. 

“It’s truly amazing what we’re pulling off . . . that most households are pretty happy paying a licence, being a forced payment.

“Our budgets are slightly better than some of the commercial operators and the lovely thing is we can play long-term as well, we don’t need to make a profit on everything, which is glorious.”

"You know I get extremely well paid, but everyone in my top team takes a lot less money than they can get.”