"If I was a BBC journalist, I think I would look at the governance arrangements and say, "Well, who's in my corner?" @arusbridger on lack of editorial experience in governance.

"We're pretending as if it's still the 1990s or maybe the early 00s that Oasis are playing their hits first time round, rather than second time round,&we're in a totally different security environment, & nobody is quite making that case with sufficient urgency." @lukeharding1968

"I don't want anybody to read the book and think, 'oh well, thank God, that's all awful, but it can't happen here." Thoughtful and sparky conversation with @stephensackur on Beeb Watch this week. 🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch

"The industry, I think, would have welcomed a change because Lisa Nandy is not seen as being particularly effective, I don't think, and I do think that's a concern." Eye opening interview with @Jake_Kanter this week. 🎧 Listen to the full conversation: podfollow.com/beebwatch

“What I'm less attracted to is the idea that any old story that you happen to bung on the internet and someone watches for or clicks on for three seconds counts as meaningful reach for the BBC, and they're too obsessed by that.” @rogermosey

"Unless you involve the public in that debate & give the British public a serious and meaningful space to talk about the relationship they want with the media.. you're never going to have genuine public democratic support for public media." @TMChivers

Can confirm. Still wittering on. New series starts today. 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

"The BBC has decided that whenever there are cuts, it's news & current affairs that bears the brunt of them. I just think if you're a serious public service broadcaster, that should be one of your core things, & not spending millions of pounds on programmes like Match of the Day"

"That doesn't make them wrong." Ex-BBC & ITV chairman Michael Grade — who also just finished chairing Ofcom, the broadcasting regulator — argues different outlets can have different editorial priorities without either side being biased. 🎧 Full episode: podfollow.com/beebwatch

"If the rationale for the ITV deal is we can't survive unless we are owned by a larger company, what does that mean for the survival of Channel 4?" A prescient point from an excellent interview with Prof Cathy Johnson @UniversityLeeds who also unpacks the latest media green paper

Kate Ferguson @WordsAreDeeds of @ProtectionApproaches went from genocide prevention in Rwanda to noticing the same warning signs at home. She's got a "dread trio" — one threat unthinkable a year ago. 🎧 Great listen: Peter York's Culture Wars House Party podfollow.com/peter-yorks-cu…

"I think there really could be something quite exciting to be done in that space, but it does require the BBC to have a little bit of a shift in mind set." A refreshing take on local journalism from Jonathan Heawood of Public Interest News Foundation 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

Heartening to hear during these grim days of BBC cuts how valued the BBC remains. Great interview with @TomLoxley from @RadioTimes 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

“The BBC, to my knowledge, hasn’t been on GB News, & it’s certainly something that it should do, & I tried to make it happen on a couple of occasions, but I’ll file that under things that were not successful during my tenure.” Great convo John Shield 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

"There were things like crew and participants telling us about the use of alcohol, for instance, which was something we had assumed since 2019 had been pretty much banned, if not really strictly controlled...That was a real surprise to us". 🎧 podfollow.com/beebwatch

"This QAnon-ish idea that Democrats and 'mainstream Republicans', - RINOs: Republicans in name only - , are in hock to sex traffickers and running sex trafficking rings. It's now Republican Party orthodoxy." @ggatehouse Gabriel Gatehouse 🎧 Listen: podfollow.com/peter-yorks-cu…