ITS viewers could also be falling off a cliff. In some instances, throwing them-selves off a cliff in despair.
And it could be perpetually mired in a single type of disaster or one other.
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However eventually, this week, there was some excellent news for the poor previous BBC.
The Authorities’s alternative for the brand new chairman is a bloke who is definitely very effectively certified to do the job.
This makes him virtually distinctive within the company’s historical past.
His identify is Samir Shah and I must declare an curiosity right here, as Samir is a longstanding mate of mine.
However don’t let that put you off. You shouldn’t maintain that towards him.
As a result of Samir is a first-rate journalist who has made some terrific TV documentaries.
He was additionally boss of the BBC’s political protection at a time when you could possibly nearly imagine what you have been being instructed by the correspondents.
He’s received a depraved sense of humour and doesn’t have a lot time for the id politics and tokenism with which the BBC appears obsessed.
Along with Tim Davie, the Director-Common, he may have the ability to set the bloated company on a quite higher course.
And burst the left-wing, middle-class, metropolitan bubble that surrounds its workers of greater than 20,000.
However what an in-tray Samir has. Only a few weeks in the past, media regulator Ofcom mentioned working-class viewers and listeners have been deserting the BBC of their droves.
They felt Auntie now not represented — or revered — their views or tradition.
No kidding, dudes. We’ve been attempting to inform the Beeb that for the very best a part of 20 years.
That report from Ofcom got here similtaneously a call from the BBC to surrender the ghost on its late-evening present affairs programme, Newsnight.
The viewers for this once-excellent present is about 20 per cent of what it was in 2000.
On the similar time, Radio 4 has seen an identical stoop lately.
The explanations are the identical in each instances, though Newsnight has been worse by many levels.
An obsession with gender, transgender and race points has turned the viewers away.
So, too, what appears to be a corrosive loathing of the Conservatives, which leads on Newsnight to grotesquely biased interviews.
On Radio 4, leftie-liberal politics intrude into seemingly each programme, not simply the information.
That is current within the dramas, within the woeful comedies, within the programmes on what ought to be politically impartial subjects equivalent to food and drinks, books and movies.
Samir might have a headstart with Radio 4, as his half brother is the controller. Have a quiet phrase, previous mate.
Then there’s the bias in information reporting throughout the output.
The Israel/Hamas conflict has proven simply how unhealthy that may be, with the BBC castigated even by the liberal-minded Jewish Board of Deputies.
One of many causes for the unbalanced protection has been the astonishing truth the company employs a complete bunch of Palestinian nationals, dwelling in Gaza and the West Financial institution, as correspondents.
There aren’t any Israeli nationals as correspondents. How can that presumably be proper?
It comes from the very woke concept that journalists in international nations, particularly Africa and the Center East, ought to truly hail from these nations.
It’s an obnoxious coverage and the Israel/Gaza disaster has proven it has failed.
Then, Samir, you probably have time, trim the variety of self-serving center managers.
And encourage the BBC to be modern with its dramas and comedies and never select stuff which simply reinforces the fatuous political line the producers agree with. Take a danger.
Oh, and there’s a lot extra — and that’s earlier than we get to the problem of the licence payment and the way the BBC adapts to a totally modified market.
You’ve received so much in your plate, Samir. However you deserve the job and I do know you’ll be good.
Hell, who is aware of, you would possibly even save the BBC.
OUT OF ORDER, SUSAN
AMERICAN actress Susan Sarandon is getting much more annoying than she was in Thelma & Louise.
She is the proper instance of the dim-witted leftie-luvvie.
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Newest factor is, she’s been at a pro-Palestine rally suggesting that Jewish folks didn’t know something about struggling.
Which might come as a shock to the relations of these six million individuals who have been murdered in the Holocaust.
In addition to the relations of these butchered by Hamas’s savagery on October 7.
The result’s, she’s now been dropped from a brand new movie and her agent has instructed her to get stuffed.
Now, I don’t agree with folks being cancelled for the issues they are saying, nonetheless silly they could be.
Downside is, as a right-on leftie, Sarandon DOES deserve it.
What goes round comes round, Louise – now simply be careful for that cliff.
I READ that no person turned out to commiserate with Nella Rose when she was booted off I’m A Celeb.
Even her relations stayed effectively away. If I have been unlucky sufficient to be her relative, I’d have saved my head down too.
Reality is, I’m not solely certain why she was on there within the first place.
Celeb? Actually?
THE basket-state leftie banana republic of Venezuela is now mobilising its military.
Some consultants assume it’s about to invade the neighbouring South American nation of Guyana, a former British colony.
Guyana owns a chunk of land which the Venezuelans fairly fancy, it being filled with oil.
Little by little, the world is dividing into two.
There are the democracies, which facet with the US and the West.
After which there are the tyrannies which, like Venezuela, have shut hyperlinks to Iran, Russia and China.
You’ll be able to rely most of Africa and a hefty proportion of Asia in that second camp.
Which implies that we’re very closely outnumbered.
THE new Dwelling Secretary, James Cleverly, is saying the appropriate issues.
Elevating the wage degree for expert labour coming into the nation is the appropriate factor to do.
So is banning dependants coming over as effectively.
Cleverly suggests he would possibly have the ability to lower immigration by 300,000 a yr, largely as a consequence of this new coverage.
However already the attorneys are getting concerned. They counsel it would violate the human rights of those that do come right here.
The reply, then, is straightforward. Don’t come right here.
Clue to why Richmond individuals are joyful? It’s is within the identify
WELL, would you imagine it?
The folks of Richmond upon Thames, in South West London, are the happiest within the nation, in keeping with a brand new survey.
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Isn’t that unusual. Is it the noble deer in Richmond Park that makes them so delighted?
Or possibly prepared entry to a dip within the Thames?
I’m certain each of these issues assist.
However the true purpose is that they’re completely bleedin’ rolling in it.
To have the ability to afford a spot to reside in Richmond, you want one of many prime salaries within the nation.
Unhappy although it could be, it’s wealth that makes folks actually joyful.
BOJO’S NOT TO BLAME
THE public inquiry into the Covid pandemic was explicitly NOT meant to apportion blame.
It was supposed to be one thing we might all study from, and so on and so on.
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However it has grow to be a blame fest – in case you’re a Tory politician, however not in case you’re a scientist.
At present it was Boris Johnson’s flip to get overwhelmed in regards to the head.
Bojo was repentant. He mentioned: “Inevitably, in the middle of attempting to deal with a really, very troublesome pandemic through which we needed to steadiness appalling harms on both facet of the choice, we might have made errors.”
He added: “I take private duty for all the choices that we made.”
Factor is, although, I believe his instincts all through the pandemic have been extra proper than improper.
Opposing the scientists who have been demanding yet one more lockdown at Christmas 2021 was presumably the very best determination he ever made as Prime Minister.
OFF THE SOFAS, IDLERS
ONE of the large errors the Authorities made throughout the pandemic was furlough.
Letting folks sit at dwelling watching re-runs of Money In The Attic however nonetheless getting paid.
The issue now’s that individuals STILL don’t wish to return to work.
In accordance with a examine by the Financial institution of Worldwide Settlements, furlough has prompted a significant financial downside for the UK.
Fewer folks have returned to work than in different nations. And people to have now returned work fewer days per week.
The disaster is especially unhealthy within the hospitality sector.
The bosses have to get a bit extra concerned, and sanction those that are nonetheless lolling round on the couch half the week.
However increased wages may additionally be an incentive to get folks off their a***s.