Charles Moore has been touted as the next Chairman of the BBC when incumbent David Clementi leaves the Corporation early next year.
Journalist Moore is not your stereotypical BBC man, holding what most would consider to be right of centre political views and having previously been convicted of TV licence evasion.
He is a former editor of The Telegraph, Spectator and Sunday Telegraph and still regularly writes for all three.
He was previously the boss of a young journalism upstart called Boris Johnson, whatever happened to him.
Moore has made no secret of his disillusionment at the way the national broadcaster is managed.
Earlier this year he wrote that the BBC could "not carry on as before".
"It is essential to understand that technological and generational change has already destroyed the BBC's century-old 'wider still and wider' doctrine," he said.
"It is simply not possible for it to dominate all fields any longer. The BBC must start to decolonise. It needs Government help to do this in a dignified manner – more like British imperial decline than like the fall of the Soviet Union."
Moore has slammed bias at the BBC, describing the Corporation as "woke, pro-Remain, credulously green, anti-market, obsessed with issues connected with 'diversity', yet itself not truly diverse at all."
Most chillingly for BBC staff, he added: 'The greatest single wrong on which the BBC rests is the licence fee.
"It is an offence to freedom and a poll tax for anyone with a television (and, nowadays, a computer or mobile phone). Non-payers, almost always poor, clog the Magistrates' Courts."
Back in 2010 Moore refused to pay his TV licence in protest at the so-called Sachsgate affair. The BBC received more than 25,000 complaints after Ross and Brand left a series of lurid messages on actor Andrew Sachs' answerphone about his granddaughter Georgina Baillie.
He appeared at East Sussex Magistrates' Court and was fined £262 and ordered to pay costs totalling £545.
Writing in his Telegraph column shortly after his conviction, he said: "It was against my conscience, I told the Magistrates, to be made to pay for the weird ideology which thinks that cruel jokes by Ross are justified because they 'push the boundaries'."
The Chairman of the BBC is the head of the BBC Board, responsible for maintaining the independence of the BBC and overseeing the functioning of the BBC to fulfil its mission.
It is a political appointment, approved by the Monarch on the recommendation of the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport.
Other names in the frame include former Culture Secretary Baroness Nicky Morgan and former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne.
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3 comments:
"The BBC received more than 25,000 complaints after Ross and Brand left a series of lurid messages on actor Jonathan Sachs' answerphone about his granddaughter Georgina Baillie."
I think You mean Andrew Sachs.
"Journalist Moore is not your stereotypical BBC man, holding what most would consider to be right of centre political views and having previously been convicted of TV licence evasion.
He is a former editor of The Telegraph, Spectator and Sunday Telegraph and still regularly writes for all three."
You forgot to add "thatcher biographer" to that *Ahem* "illustrious" list.
...But as long as it's not yet another one of those rotten lefties infesting the place, eh? It wouldn't do to hold this it of corrupt imbeciles to account, would it?
I mean, the beeb are doing a fantastic job of that, aren't they? Hasn't been a day gone by when I haven't heard kuenssberg sing de piffle's praises, or seen dan whathisface on bbc breakfast give ANY cabinet minister a piers morgan-style interview about their accountability over anything...Or even seen fiona bruce allow the very-rarely invited left-of-centre MP on question time go uninterrupted so to let the tory have their say unhindered.
That's when she's not making jokes about black female MPs in the warm up session(s)
But still...As I say, it's one less rotten lefty at the corporation where the failed public schoolkids are sent to stick their snouts in the trough and continue their perverse sexual practices they learned at Eton, Harrow, Winchester, etc
Good spot NonRoadUsr - I think Jonathan Sachs is a journalist.
The toffee - Thanks for dropping by.
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