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Morale at the BBC, the world's best-known public-service broadcaster, has been dropping for most of the past decade. A "moaning culture," in the words of Greg Dyke, the British Broadcasting Corp.'s new director-general, has pervaded the Beeb in recent years, with staff members complaining about an overweening bureaucracy that stifles creativity. Last month it appeared that Dyke had taken the keening to heart. He announced a shake-up of the 23,000-employee organization in which hundreds of management jobs will be axed and $1.5 billion in savings channeled into programming over the next five...
...foreigners, who mostly consume the best the BBC has to offer, like the costume drama Wives and Daughters and the comedy series Absolutely Fabulous, the need for an overhaul might seem less than compelling. But for those who labor in the main offices, Dyke's description of the organization as being overmanaged and underled could seem a euphemism. During his seven-year reign, Dyke's predecessor John Birt created an unpopular and labyrinthine business bureaucracy in which 190 separate units handled interdepartmental dealings, especially those between the program commissioning and production sides. The Birt system was designed to instill accountability...
...Dyke seems just the man to knock a new sensibility into the sprawling bureaucracy. He comes from a commercial TV background--he was chairman and chief executive of Pearson Television from 1995 to 1999 after leaving London Weekend Television, where he was group chief executive from 1990 to 1994--and is, according to Jonathan Davis, media expert at the London Economics consultancy, "the hardest-nosed businessman in the British-TV industry." Dyke prefers to stress his high aspirations for the Beeb, telling his staff last month, "Our aim is to be a place where people work collaboratively, enjoy their...
...which always has to juggle the need for ratings with its public-service role, has found it hugely expensive to launch digital channels, start Internet sites and cope with the spiraling costs of technology, talent and rights to broadcast such things as sporting events. Although sport is one of Dyke's priorities, he has already ruled out paying the vast sums being demanded to broadcast England's top Premier League football games live--the price is expected to be more than double the $1.18 billion broadcasters paid in 1996. "We cannot just collect money from license payers to give...
...desire to "fuck as many white women as possible." His most academic discussion in the book discusses the hypocrisy of the feminist movement. While his critiques of the movement are not original, his summary view of problems within the movement gives a clear understanding of the difference between "bull-dyke feminism" and Betty Friedan Feminist Mystique feminism...