4 of us, after separately watching yesterday's select committee appearance by 'Batman & Robin', agreed the top management were truly dire!

They still feel the Ross/Brand problems centred on:
(a) the internal control system and
(b) the invasion of Sachs' privacy and rights.

They appear not to recognise that the public were, in the main, disgusted at the nature of the content itself.
Messrs Lyons & Thompson believe the BBC must be 'edgy' and that the public want them to 'take risks'.
Arguably most business decisions involve 'risk' – that is the risk of being a good or a bad decision – but are generally made without compromising the ethos and reputation of the business itself.
Both HAVE been compromised as our BBC – under its current management – have waded further and further into their own murky waters of 'edginess' and 'risk'.

Lyons is a lone voice in arguing that Ross is worth his £6m pa, which rather confirms how far out of touch he is. Apart from its inflationary effect, has it occured to him to look at the cost per viewer given the numbers for Ross' off-peak tv and radio shows?
And now Radio 2 has even announced that Ross will return on 24th January before the investigation is complete! Right and left hand?

We believe these senior men fail the Corporation as managers and are way out of step with us, their customers, on what we really want for our £140 a year. Both may well be out of a job if Ross has to go so their personal interests seem to be standing in the way of a BBC with which most licence payers are happy.

Sadly there can be no smugness on their news coverage either as Channel 4 and Sky easily and regularly out-perform them on content, relevance and scoops – and without the bias!

We deserve better and judging by yesterday’s sad performances, we’ll get it only after changes at the very top.
A bit like this Labour Government eh what?

There are gems in their canon of programming (mainly in entertainment and documentaries) so let them follow the US public broadcast system of funding and still remain commercial free, but funded by people who want to watch the output via direct donations/pledges. I know, I stumped up a few bucks to PBS when I lived stateside to watch quality telly (a lot of which was from the BBC) and did not object to doing so. I do object to having to pay, wheter I want to or not, for BBC outputI do not watch or listen to.

PM has been brought back to do what he is good at: sowing dissension in Tory ranks in time for the early election they are obviously planning in the wake of all this bribery, and squaring the media. But George did make an impact on the later bulletins, some of which actually picked up his two main deadly serious points.

Osborne's long overdue comments about Sterling have put the cat amongst the pigeons, as the pound’s recent weakness exposes the dangerous shallowness of Brown's imprudent and ill-considered financial policies.

Labour doesn’t simply doesn’t have the option of cutting public expenditure to fund its proposed tax breaks or ill thought out bailouts. They cannot do so without alienating their ‘payroll’ vote. So it’s printing money all the way! Brown’s government has put its own survival- quite literally at any cost- above the national interest. The BBC’s angle? Well, I gave up on them years ago as a source of independent news or analysis.

But you can't buck the markets. And the currency markets have been voting with their wallets against Brown’s policies. Unfortunately it’s the British taxpayer who picks up the bill. By calling Labour out on the recent decline in Sterling, Osborne has publicly demonstrated that Emperor Brown has no clothes. Hence the desperate attempts by the Labour/BBC establishment to close down the debate.

But never fear! The British public are smarter than Brown and the BBC thinks. Those of us outside of the Westminster bubble can see for ourselves that the decline in Sterling started on Brown’s watch, months before Osborne opened his mouth.

The bias of the BBC is unbelievable. The communique from the G20 does not support out and out fiscal stimuli as Gordy would have us believe. So why do the BBC report it as if this was the case? I'd like to think that the BBC are not paid up members of the Nu Liebour project but Robinson, Peston et al do their utmost to create this impression. The first quango to be axed should be the BBC!