{"id":115423,"date":"2019-10-20T15:00:56","date_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2019\/10\/20\/bbc-leadership-is-in-crisis-at-a-time-of-great-danger-emily-bell\/"},"modified":"2019-10-20T15:00:56","modified_gmt":"2019-10-20T13:00:56","slug":"bbc-leadership-is-in-crisis-at-a-time-of-great-danger-emily-bell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=115423","title":{"rendered":"BBC leadership is in  crisis at a time of great danger | Emily Bell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the culture secretary talks of scrapping the licence fee, bosses are continuing to stumbleNo dog-whistle distracts the British press quite like the sound of a politician blowing hard on a policy to interfere with the BBC. So it was not a surprise that, as the government headed into a weekend of heavy Brexit weather, the culture secretary, Nicky Morgan, revealed she was not entirely opposed to converting the BBC licence fee into a \u201cNetflix-style subscription\u201d. The licence fee is compulsory for anyone who owns a monitor that can be used as a television, and currently delivers the broadcaster \u00a33.75bn a year (about a quarter of Netflix\u2019s total revenue).Off-the-cuff remarks made at a culture select committee meeting are not (thankfully) policy, and Morgan\u2019s department later clarified that there were no plans to review the current BBC charter, which runs until 2027 \u2013 and by then, who knows which national institutions will have collapsed? But even connoisseurs of the BBC\u2019s dangerous moments could tell you we are currently in a vintage dangerous moment. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/media\/commentisfree\/2019\/oct\/20\/bbc-leadership-is-in-crisis-at-a-time-of-great-danger\" target=\"_blank\">BBC leadership is in  crisis at a time of great danger | Emily Bell<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the culture secretary talks of scrapping the licence fee, bosses are continuing to stumbleNo dog-whistle distracts the British press quite like the sound of a politician blowing hard on a policy to interfere with the BBC. So it was not a surprise that, as the government headed into a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}