Too many questions
BBC Trust interviewees 'should face public grilling'
Idea of the week so far: "In an era when everybody votes interactively via their TV, interviews [for BBC Trust appointments] should be webcast, so people can see who these individuals are, and question them". But...what questions should be asked, what are the right/correct answers, and finally what's the whole point of the exercise in the first place?
However different people will be expecting different answers. The commercial sector won't want to hear that BBC productions are free to trample all over them since they will be of vastly superior quality, and likewise the government won't want to hear that the BBC will be freely allowed to upset them in times of crisis. Or that the BBC will be free to trample all over the commercial sector.
But all Mr and Mrs Public want from the BBC is a high quality service that relates to them, and for the BBC to do this they will inevitably have to compete with the commercial sector for their attentions. And if the commercial sector gets upset that high quality drama from the BBC is singlehandedly destroying their cheaply produced Celebrity Love Kitchen Islands In Hell 7, then they are simply not trying hard enough.
