在这个崭新的世界中,观点是廉价的,甚至是免费的。另一方面,真相十分昂贵。当Twitter能够如此残酷、愚蠢又迅速地错指他人,我们需要一个能够信任的标准。当很多报纸把社评与资讯混在一起时,我们需要知道我们所需的信息已经被审查过了。当每个人都是博主,我们必须知道什么才是重要的。所以我们比以往任何时候更加需要BBC,所以这些错误才会产生如此严重的破坏。
We have been here before. Twenty years ago, a new director-general, John Birt, took over. One of his predecessors had been forced to resign, the BBC was under pressure from a Tory government, with many in it pushing for privatisation. Some shows were so stale it was hard to see why they got any public money.
我们以前就经历过这种情况。20年前,约翰·伯特(John Birt)成为BBC的新任总裁。他的前任之一被迫辞职,保守党政府向BBC施压,政府内的很多人推动BBC私有化。BBC的部分节目非常陈旧,以至于人们认为这些节目根本没有资格获得任何公共资金的支持。
Over the next decade, the BBC was saved by Lord Birt’s boldness. (Disclosure: between 1995 and 1997, I was its head of corporate planning.) It would have been easy to play it safe, to avoid mistakes, lest they incense the BBC’s enemies. But instead, it reviewed its programmes, transforming Radio 1 as well as its output of drama and entertainment.
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