'Dismayed' BBC staff back Dyke

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3446819.stm

Thousands of BBC staff have paid for an advert in a national newspaper supporting their former director general, Greg Dyke. Mr Dyke resigned a day after the Hutton report heavily criticised the BBC.

The advert said: "Greg Dyke stood for brave independent and rigorous BBC journalism that was fearless in its search for the truth". The advert in the Daily Telegraph, paid for by staff, said: "We are resolute that the BBC should not step back from its determination to investigate the facts in pursuit of the truth.

It follows spontaneous protests outside BBC premises throughout the country in support of Mr Dyke.

We need demonstrations in this country to expose the non-truth seeking media conglomerates.

If it's the "govt", he's toast, but if there is some collaborative input, he might get hired back, and with more courage than before, because he would know that his staff supports him enough to walk off the job in support of him..

UKers?? what's the skinny??

... I doubt if anyone really knows who makes the final decision. My understanding is, however, that it's the Board of Governors who have their arms twisted half way up their backs by the Minister of Culture who has her arm twisted all the way up her back by Tony the Tory.

In other words, Greg Dyke - in spite of any past credentials as one of Tony's Cronies - is henceforth toast of the most crisp, frazzled and irretrievable variety.

My guess is that Son of Thatcher will "enable" very much what was enabled in the Kelly inquest - a figurehead will be chosen who is ostensibly "apolitical" but who has been briefed in no uncertain terms on who the boss is and what has to be delivered.

The BBC is on the diciest of ground right now. The other Tory party - the one led by Michael Howard - would love to see it dismembered and sold off to right-wing conglomerations. And now it appears that The Grin Without The Cat wants that too.

Can the British Fox Broadcasting Company be far away?

The Skin
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The short answer is the government. And there was quite a bit of contriversy surrounding Greg Dyke's appointment as he was seen as a Blair crony who had donated £50,000 to "new" labour. Evidently he was not enough of a crony for Blair even after that.

Could we PLEASE go back to hearing "This....is London..." at the top of the hour instead of that "This is the BBC in BumFuck" drek that we hear now?

And a re-asumption of North American service would be good, too. Contrary to what Dyke had claimed, I do NOT get the World Service via internet. I'm on a dial-up.

I wish some of the BBC people would come over to the states to teach the USA press how to grow spines & do investigative reporting.

and all those who question the Hutton hogwash/ whitewash.