Bbc Web Site To Shrink By Half

[threegee]

So... the BBC has decided that it can't do everything! Thing is, how does a 25% cut in staff working on the Internet equate to halving the number of web pages available? Sounds like a poor deal for the licence payer to me.

Don't think our Town is going to miss 6 Music and The Asian Network though.

Pity just a tiny tiny bit of that £600M couldn't go to real community broadcasting. But, the Beeb it running hard to preserve its empire and not to dissipate it.

[Malcolm Robinson]

I don't understand how they can justify the licence fee in this day and age especially considering the peripherals they have gone into?

[Monsta®]

pity the licence fee doesn't shrink by half!

[Symptoms]

God Save our Blessed BBC and most of what they do, however ...

like many organisations there's clearly money wasting going on.

Why did they need to spend £1 billion digging the "deepest hole in the West End" when creating a new basement at Broadcasting House in London's Great Portland St. Oh, and the £70,000 to photograph the builders doing it, and £25,000 for a 2 minute flight over the site by a radio-controlled helicopter (not a big jobby but one of those model things that sad blokes fly). Then there's the £210 million +++ for just building White City 2 (further out West of Central London) with a further £60.9 million to furnish it. Just a couple of examples of needless spending when what they should have done was rationalise their TV Centre/HQ needs and house the lot in one of those cheap, monster warehouse, sheds on some industrial estate out-of-town - all at a fraction of the cost.

The Beeb produces great content but is let down by lazy/greedy managers, not the programme makers.

It's a bit like the answer to the question about why is military procurement costing such vast amounts (and our troops are still under-resourced) ... it 'cos a bog roll costs thousands. How else can the Officer Class get the finest wines for nowt in the mess.

Yep, like all bosses they'll always milk it dry given half-a-chance and the scum-sucking Daily Mail readers will be guided into blaming the workers for excess.