Saturday, January 31, 2004
Watched Newsnight last night. Now admittedly Greg Dyke is enjoying being free of the shackles of corporate responsibility to say exactly what he feels about the Hutton Report while his acting replacement, Mark Byford, isn't. Byford also has to act as though he's the Director General of an evil news organisation that made unfounded slurs against the Government when the truth is quite different.
But... did he have to come off as quite such a joyless, grey, drab corporate worm as he did? If he lasts long enough to have impressionists take note of him, his impression wouldn't be that different to John Major, just with a slightly different voice. And those large staring eyes... I swear there were several times when he forgot to blink for minutes. Bland, bland, bland. Even though he seemed to be agreeing with the prevailing opinion that the BBC was treated unfairly by Hutton he was talking like a Labour MP, refusing to answer the question and twisting and turning like a rather large worm on a hook. Hopefully he won't be there long. It would be nice if we use this occasion to get some non-white, non-male, non- public school faces in there. The first female DG perhaps? The first black DG? Anything other than the now apparently deleted breedar suggestion that Ali C get made DG...
But... did he have to come off as quite such a joyless, grey, drab corporate worm as he did? If he lasts long enough to have impressionists take note of him, his impression wouldn't be that different to John Major, just with a slightly different voice. And those large staring eyes... I swear there were several times when he forgot to blink for minutes. Bland, bland, bland. Even though he seemed to be agreeing with the prevailing opinion that the BBC was treated unfairly by Hutton he was talking like a Labour MP, refusing to answer the question and twisting and turning like a rather large worm on a hook. Hopefully he won't be there long. It would be nice if we use this occasion to get some non-white, non-male, non- public school faces in there. The first female DG perhaps? The first black DG? Anything other than the now apparently deleted breedar suggestion that Ali C get made DG...
