New BBC boss Matt Brittin issues warning amid cost-saving plan
The BBC’s newly appointed director-general, Matt Brittin, has declared the corporation faces a significant challenge to "move faster and change to adapt to the world around us".
Mr Brittin, who succeeded Tim Davie in the role last month, spoke after he attended an investiture ceremony at Windsor Castle, where the 57-year-old received a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) from the Prince of Wales.
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Brittin attended the investiture ceremony on Wednesday accompanied by his 92-year-old mother Shirley, his son Nick and his wife Kate, and said he and William exchanged a few words about his new job.
“He was very kind,” Brittin said.
“I’ve met him a few times over the years through his charitable work.
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He further told PA he believes tackling misinformation and improving media literacy are among the BBC’s main challenges ahead.
“At the BBC, we’re concerned about making sure that audiences get incredible quality journalism and creative storytelling that’s homegrown in the UK,” he said.
As ever, the language is interesting, such as "incredible quality journalism" when "credible journalism" would be an improvement.
3 comments:
Tackling misinformation eh!
He could start with all the net zero and climate bollocks. Followed up by admitting that boys are boys and girls are girls and one can not magically transform into the other.
But he doesn't mean that sort of misinformation does he.
(John Turnbull) Actually, "incredible" is revealingly accurate though not perhaps what he intended....
It takes a dispassionate journalist to write anything near the truth. Otherwise a journalist who is 'on the team', whether starry eyed progressive, or embittered populist, can only write a biased article from their 'lived experience' (I managed to write that without sarcasm).
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