The Mail and others are probably only moments away from reporting the numbers of BBC staff at Glastonbury, none of them apparently capable of closing the mike on Bob Vylan. It might also reflect that among the production staff planning the event, making big calls on who goes live on networks, side channels and the websites, no-one had the antennae to suggest that another attention-seeking band might deserve more than just a warning caption.
Meanwhile BBC News' reputation abroad is now firmly in the hands of the US marketing teams in New York. Now they not only accept political advertising, but political advertising that is strategically placed.
They were warned. Several people brought this up at meetings about creating 'splits' from BBC News, ie creating a UK stream when there's a particularly relevant story or "compelling content". Senior managers including Naja Nielsen were told that having the technical ability to do such splits wasn't enough: it needed to be accompanied by editorial control - and not just some hapless junior producer in the field. Any split or stream or Red Button is a BBC channel & is subject to the same editorial considerations as BBC1. But they don't listen. BBC managers never listen, they're not even listening now.
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