viene la tormenta

There's a storm coming. There's an election imminent and the last bastion of Britishness  - The BBC itself is in the firing line. It knows it. Murdoch and his hate-fuelled clan are demanding everything should be paid for and that the Beeb is too powerful, quite funny for a man who owns the media world.


Or at least it would be if the Beeb didn't try and slit it's own throat trying to placate what could be the next Tory government. A government where the key advisor (Director of communications) to Cameron is a former Murdoch employee. Andy Coulson was the editor of the News of the World whilst cheques were written to people who spied on, bugged and checked on phone messages of celebrities, sports personalities and some politicians. 

Coulson was also found guilty of bullying a former employee (details can be found here), hardly the kind of person I'd ever want working for me. But he'll have the ear of (possibly) the next prime minister the same way Campbell had Blair's.


On the weekend the Guardian ran a rare interview with (soon to be former) controversial BBC employee Jonathan Ross (full interview here) and he said pretty much the same thing about the Beeb: "...the whole place has changed quite dramatically. I think it's a shame that the people running it are always trying to second-guess what the newspapers will say about them – and whatever the next government we wind up with will say about them. The experience of being there isn't quite the place it was. And it's a terrible, terrible shame." 


6Music one of the stations due for closure, now has an unlikely allie in Gordon Brown. he stated that the BBC "should not have succumbed to pressure" to axe some of its output. He said: "I don't think politicians should make that decision about what the BBC
produces."

It's got to the stage now that what ever the election outcome, the losers will be the licence payer with a reduced quality BBC.