Bravo Jim this needed saying by a sesoned brilliant broadcaster sadly missed on Radio Shropshire. The whole board shoiuld be kicked out and that goes for Robbie Gibb he should be sent to prison. The likes of you and Eric were doomed when the man from GB news decided it was a good idea to destroy Local radio. We all must stand up and fight for what is right. Lewis Goodall now of LBC along with John Sopel and Emily Maitlis Knew what was coming and made there escape. You wont know how fantastic the Beeb is/was until its gone....
Thank you for this, Martyn. It's good to know I'm missed, but I must say I don't miss it! Yes, we definitely need to stand up and fight for what is right. The awful thing is, I felt I couldn't do that while I was still at the BBC ...
Oh, Jim, never say things like 'It can only get better.' That tempts Fate.
But yes, oh yes, just in the not quite 20 years since I moved to the UK, I have been distressed to see the BBC slide from what it was toward being a slanted mouthpiece for one particular side of the spectrum. I think calling it a political spectrum would be incorrect. It's more fundamental. It has more to do with ethics and morality than with policy positions.
Keep doing what you're doing Jim because you do it brilliantly. Listening to your eloquence and passion made me long for radio like this and like the stuff you used to make and I would listen to everyday. But it's gone and as you said we've not getting it back. Not in it's old form. Broadcasting is changing and moving on. Is the BBC keeping up? I don't know but I do know that podcasts like yours are the future of public service journalism and broadcasting and to be cherished.
Also on another point someone made that edit. Tim Davie didn’t. Deborah Turners didn’t. I know the buck stops with them. But what checks and balances were done by the producers and editor of Panorama before it went out? Who signed that documentary off? Because you and I both know how much BBC news has been cut to the bone in order to make savings. It’s not the top and middle managers who get put at risk of redundancy and eventually go. It’s the journalists and programme makers who have been consistently cut. No wonder mistakes get made and things don’t get checked when you are short on staff and time.
Bravo Jim this needed saying by a sesoned brilliant broadcaster sadly missed on Radio Shropshire. The whole board shoiuld be kicked out and that goes for Robbie Gibb he should be sent to prison. The likes of you and Eric were doomed when the man from GB news decided it was a good idea to destroy Local radio. We all must stand up and fight for what is right. Lewis Goodall now of LBC along with John Sopel and Emily Maitlis Knew what was coming and made there escape. You wont know how fantastic the Beeb is/was until its gone....
Thank you for this, Martyn. It's good to know I'm missed, but I must say I don't miss it! Yes, we definitely need to stand up and fight for what is right. The awful thing is, I felt I couldn't do that while I was still at the BBC ...
Oh, Jim, never say things like 'It can only get better.' That tempts Fate.
But yes, oh yes, just in the not quite 20 years since I moved to the UK, I have been distressed to see the BBC slide from what it was toward being a slanted mouthpiece for one particular side of the spectrum. I think calling it a political spectrum would be incorrect. It's more fundamental. It has more to do with ethics and morality than with policy positions.
Its worrying bcause its not true! The bbc are not 'lefty' or anything like it imo ,will it be ok Jim tho' it will keep going ?
Clear and concise. Thanks for the insight, Jim.
Thank you, Steve, I'm glad it did the job
Keep doing what you're doing Jim because you do it brilliantly. Listening to your eloquence and passion made me long for radio like this and like the stuff you used to make and I would listen to everyday. But it's gone and as you said we've not getting it back. Not in it's old form. Broadcasting is changing and moving on. Is the BBC keeping up? I don't know but I do know that podcasts like yours are the future of public service journalism and broadcasting and to be cherished.
Also on another point someone made that edit. Tim Davie didn’t. Deborah Turners didn’t. I know the buck stops with them. But what checks and balances were done by the producers and editor of Panorama before it went out? Who signed that documentary off? Because you and I both know how much BBC news has been cut to the bone in order to make savings. It’s not the top and middle managers who get put at risk of redundancy and eventually go. It’s the journalists and programme makers who have been consistently cut. No wonder mistakes get made and things don’t get checked when you are short on staff and time.