How to save the BBC from itself (and get its hand out of our pockets)

Have your say Read comments Jeff Randall argues that a combination of corporate imperialism and institutional self-regard stops the broadcaster seeing where its future lies Few British institutions are capable of generating more storm and stress than the BBC. Find me someone who has no view at all on the corporation and I'll show you a caveman. Auntie's salad days are long gone, yet she remains an aphrodisiac of debate. From alleged bias and method of funding, to presenters' pay-packets and quality of output, the BBC is a reliable energiser of lacklustre dinner-parties. The blogosphere is clogged with comment about the BBC, much of it from extremes. It doesn't matter whether postings are on the Guardian's website or The Daily Telegraph's, there is a juxtaposition of love and hate. Books, television programmes, radio... [read full story]