It's almost too easy a target. The BBC has appointed a chairperson. This time it's someone to train BBC staff on how to use the new chairs.
They are also running ‘transport in Salford’ training days, to teach BBC staff which bus or tram they need to catch and how to find the office by car or bike.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but when I worked in a commercial organisation we were expected to find our own way to the office and sit in the chair we were given.
This is more serious. We all know the BBC wastes money by sending presenters to front news stories on the ground. Martin Bell writes that these people don't sit at the back of the plane. I bet they don't. And, he adds
There is also the question of what did they actually know?Enter Helen Boaden, Director of News, who according to the Mail "is regarded as a contender to be the first woman director general of the BBC".
She has said that the measure had become ‘etiquette’ on major news events but confessed that in some cases it had been unnecessary.
Etiquette? Is that the depth of thinking from a candidate for Director General? Lazy, complacent woman.
She says they will still send presenters to big stories when it is appropriate, such as the Egypt uprising. She also defended the decision to send Naughtie to Japan saying he ‘added quite a lot’.
The BBC executive added: ‘In the end the public does expect us to treat these stories in a serious way with big experts there'.
Naughtie's big expertise in Japan and earthquakes was ... what? If he could add 'quite a lot' to the efforts of their Japan team, did they not have the wrong team?
And if I had one rule of thumb, it would be that sending Huw Edwards anywhere never adds anything.
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