Paxman voices concerns over BBC

We all should.

Here's why.

As you would expect the BBC left out the more juicy bits Paxman said. Here's the Times version.

Until the license fee is scrapped, and even then I doubt it, nothing is going to change at the BBC. Listen to this:

"Meanwhile it was announced that Mr Thompson, Michael Grade, the ITV chairman, and Andy Duncan, the boss of Channel 4, had agreed to hold a summit on raising standards."

How are 3 current or former BBC executives going to raise the standards of the BBC that they themselves presided over for years? They're part of the problem not part of the solution. The BBC chose a former BBC executive to head an "independent" inquiry into the latest scandals.

Want to complain to an outside body about the BBC? Go ahead and try. Ofcom, the industry regulator is headed by a former BBC executive director.

Paxman is right when he observes "that working at the BBC “has always been a bit like working in Stalin’s Russia, with one five-year plan, one resoundingly empty slogan after another” with a belief that “the system will go on for ever”. "

The reference to Stalin is quite apt.

Update

Here's the text of Paxmans speech.

Too bad he didn't address the more important lies and fabricaions at the BBC.