I sometimes wonder if part of the problem with the likes of Thompson et al today is the fact that they're purely creatures of TV. I don't think it's irrelevant that executives such as Huw Wheldon, Bill Cotton and others grew up in world that didn't actually have TV. They remained 'worldly' people, both culturally and socially. I think that showed itself in the programming as well as in the attitude to the public. Now we have executives who take pride in reciting the TV schedules for the first week in April 1983 to other people who do the same. "What do they know of the media who only media know?"

It beggars belief how the man can sit there with a straight face and claim that BBC3 is somehow £115M worth of "quality" and yet 6Music must be cut. I also wonder what barrel 1Xtra have the BBC Trust over?

Why is Kelvin McKenzie such an idiot?