As people who know me will be aware I think the present arrangements for governing the BBC (via the BBC Trust) are better than the previous ones (see my comment on Roy Greenslade’s blog from a while ago).
Here’s two topical links on this subject:
“Raymond Snoddy: The case against has not been proven”
Raymond Snoddy in his article asks one of the critical questions – if you don’t have something like the BBC Trust how exactly do you oversee the BBC?
While paidContent goes even further.
“BBC’s Regulator Isn’t A ‘Cheerleader’, It’s A Heckler”
Regardless of the rights or wrongs of individual decisions, at the moment the Trust doesn’t feel like a body which is simply going to do whatever BBC management wants…
October 20, 2009 at 12:37 pm
My gut feeling is that the Trust is actually being quite sensible and doing a decent enough job. About the only thing which may let it down is limited numbers of highly technical people in the Unit, as often the devil is in the details.
So far the biggest complaints I’ve seen are that the Trust is making the right decisions for the wrong reasons—it could always be the other way around!