Posted on 11/12/2025 9:06:54 PM PST by nickcarraway
The resignations at the top of the BBC feature on almost every front page, alongside a slew of critical headlines. "BBC Bosses Quit In Disgrace" says the Daily Mail while "Beeb Boss Quits Over Trump Lies" says the Sun. According to the Daily Telegraph, the decisions by Tim Davie and Deborah Turness to step down have left the BBC "facing its biggest crisis in more than a decade" with senior MPs demanding a "major shake-up". The Financial Times says the simultaneous departures underline the scale of the problems at the corporation.
The Guardian reports that the resignations have caused "shock" within the BBC, with a source telling the paper it feels like a "coup" and "the result of a campaign by political enemies" of the broadcaster. The Times says insiders have described the fall of the director general as "death by a thousand cuts" after a series of scandals led him to conclude he could no longer continue in the role. But the Telegraph suggests the "blinkered approach" of Tim Davie was his undoing, arguing he was "furious at critics and blind to the problem".
The leader columns and editorials do not hold back. The Daily Express demands an end to what it calls BBC bias, arguing that "across a range of issues it has consistently gone against the majority opinion in the country or breached broadcasting rules". The Guardian says the BBC "needs to fight but it has given in", warning the corporation looked "weak and cowardly" as criticism grew over recent days, "just when it needed to be robust and brave".
With thoughts now turning to who will be the next director general, the Times says three women are the early front-runners to replace Tim Davie. It names them as Jay Hunt, the former controller of BBC1 who
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“With thoughts now turning to who will be the next director general, the Times says three women are the early front-runners to replace Tim Davie. It names them as Jay Hunt, the former controller of BBC1 who now works for Apple TV, Alex Mahon, who was the boss of Channel 4 until July, and Charlotte Moore, who left her role as the BBC’s chief content officer earlier this year to become the chief executive of Left Bank Films.”
They still don’t get it.
Meet the New Boss, bloody well the very same as the Old Boss!
Appears nothing changes at the BBC.
Good riddance, about bloody time.
Last straw for me was 9/11, that evening they had a “news” program about it, inviting US Ambassador. They filled the audience with anti-American lefties who reduced the Ambassador to tears, no help from the “moderators”.
Just garbage.
For those of us who now have an earworm, here’s Smokey Robinson & The Miracles, “Tears of a Clown”
Yes, music written by Stevie Wonder.
That's because they're ray-cists!
Not a single Muslim among the candidates!
Regards,
Really?! To tears?! Then that's on us - for having appointed such a wimpy ambassador!
Regards,
The Beeb needs to be defunded. The license fee needs to go and it needs to be forced to compete on a market basis.
Of course, once the license fee....ie the tax every Briton must pay annually for owning a TV - which is then paid to the Beeb - goes, the Beeb is screwed. 81% in the UK know they’re a bunch of biased lying bastards and do not trust them.
I remember when journalist searched for and wrote the truth. Been decades but it actually happened.
“The Times says insiders have described the fall of the director general as ‘death by a thousand cuts’”
What does that even mean? It’s “death by a thousand PAPER cuts”.
No worries. There are plenty more mentally ill freaks left to take over.
White men need not apply . All important jobs reserved for women.
Is it possible to find a link to that program? I’d love to see it.
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