BBC is beyond saving; same goes for NPR in US, which Tucker Carlson has been highlighting, ABC Australia and CBC Canada.
pity they all get taxpayer money.
Rees has had a good innings at BBC, so no big deal he has gone, but...
10 Jan: UK Telegraph: BBC broadcaster Nigel Rees quit after 46 years over ‘diversity drive’
by Telegraph reporters
A Radio 4 presenter has revealed that he resigned after 46 years because he felt under pressure from the BBC to book more “diverse” guests...
Nigel Rees, 77, had presented the hugely popular programme ‘Quote... Unquote’ since 1976 when he left last month...
“We had prescriptions to have diverse groups and disabled guests. I didn’t agree with it at all but I went along with it because I had to. It came from upstairs and it seemed to be a general priority,” he told The Sunday Times.
“I am not willing to go on having my choices interfered with in order to tick boxes in the name of diversity and representation. It is difficult having it enforced for the sake of it. It is also patronising, not least to the people who don’t want to be on because they feel they are ticking a box.”
The BBC’s focus on diversity in recent years has been criticised as out of touch with its audiences...
Last month, the corporation said it would no longer use the acronym BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) as it could cause “serious insult” to ethnic minorities if they feel they are being referred to as a homogenous group...
He also gave examples of “cultural issues” creeping in, making him feel out of touch.
Mr Rees said he was asked not to mention some lines from Noël Coward’s 1932 comic song Mad Dogs and Englishmen as the BBC feared it would promote “colonial attitudes”...
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/entertainment/tv/bbc-broadcaster-nigel-rees-quit-after-46-years-over-diversity-drive/ar-AASARX4?ocid=BingNewsSearch
Yep. The Beeb is NPR and PBS with an accent.