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The shadow culture secretary, Jeremy Hunt, has said the Conservatives would abolish the "failed" BBC Trust and is considering ripping up the corporation's royal charter. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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Already reeling from accusations of bias and threats of cuts from Ben Bradshaw, the Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, the BBC was yesterday slapped down again by his Conservative counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, who pledged to scrap its... Full Article at The Independent
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Shadow Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said that the “failed” BBC Trust could well be “ripped up” if the Conservatives were to win power in the next election. Full Article at Music Week
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The timing could not be worse for the BBC. The disclosure that the British National Party leader Nick Griffin has been invited to be a member of the Question Time panel on October 22 comes hard on the heels of a highly charged appearance by two BNP... Full Article at The Jewish Chronicle
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Bradshaw, a former BBC journalist, used Twitter to criticise Radio 4's Today programme. Full Article at Guardian Unlimited
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We haven't made a decision on the timing of [changes in the governance structure] but we do think the structure ... has failed
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The BBC is planning so-called passion websites. It might sound well and good for them to have, say, an angling website, but if it drove out of business every angling magazine in the country, you would have to question if it was the right sort of thing to do
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Public acceptability is constantly changing, so it is right that we should reflect on the standards the BBC should be setting, as well as ask licence fee payers what they think when reviewing the guidelines
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They need to separate the areas which they talk about. I tended to talk about really important strategic questions like the licence fee, the governance structure and political independence. He [Greg Dyke] talked about day-to-day stuff like scheduling, salaries for stars, editorial content.
– Gavyn Davies SOURCE: Guardian Unlimited
