Terry Wogan says BBC is no longer best in the world
I loved this from Terry Wogan in the Guardian
today:
Terry Wogan has said the BBC has lost its standing as the finest
broadcaster in the world and that its bosses lack "old-fashioned
thoroughness and commitment" .... "When I sent my first tape
to the head of gramophone programmes at the BBC, I had made the fatal
mistake of forgetting to rewind it to the start," he said. "Yet
that gentleman took the time to wind it all the way back, and once he'd
listened to it, things went from there," Wogan added. "I can
tell you, if I was a young chap coming over from Ireland today, they
probably wouldn't even listen to my tape, let alone rewind it. "Somehow,
that old-fashioned thoroughness and commitment have disappeared. I suppose
no one has the time for it any more."
You are right Terry, instead there is a new fashioned thoroughness and
commitment generally that if an applicant is so lazy as to not even check
the state of what they had sent in and unnecesssarily waste interviewers
time, they would - rightly - not be even be looked at. Who knows what
briilliant broadcasters were overlooked because you were given a second
chance.
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