The BBC one of the last creative Greats of Britain

The Guardian Reports

The BBC seems determined to keep making the same mistake. After Value for Money and the axing of thousands of jobs, after Creative Futures and even more jobs, now we have the third great corporation declaration, Putting Quality First. What else have we ever done, other than in the atrocious fields of management and leadership, where we continue to be a great case of quantity over quality? Similarly the BBC Trust, ever eager to do the dirty work of the commercial sector and act at the behest of the BBC's enemies in restricting our services, follows its destruction of BBC Jam and BBC local video with Switch and Blast, two keenly rewarding innovations for young audiences and creative talents. The restrictions on the websites, local radio evening broadcasting, Radio 2's music (presumably the Trust cannot compute the thought of a truly popular BBC service, and leaving well alone) the Asian Network and 6 Music are truly devastating news for BBC staff and audiences. My members are right to ask questions about the competency and efficacy of an executive which is only interested in slashing jobs to kowtow to Tory politicians, while maintaining disgraceful levels of remuneration for the henchcrew; and of a system of governance which places the nakedly anti-BBC Trust at the head of a ridiculous structure. The sooner it's abolished and a proper board put in charge of the BBC, the better. While there's still a BBC to govern. Mark Scrimshaw

With the revenue from the TV licence delivering about £3.5bn a year to the BBC, with which it does such a lot of good TV, radio and internet stuff, why is BSkyB worried when it generates over £5bn a year? In contrast with the BBC's rich output, BSkyB's business is trivial: pay more to the footballers, run a crummy website and buy in US drama to pack the schedules. The BBC seems far more productive. Tim Brook

In the UK we seem to be hell bent in destroying everything we have that is successful (albeit subsidised and not without fault and waste like any large business).

The BBC is Globally acknowledged as a centre of creative excellence which has long fed the commercial and independent sectors with both talent and ideas.

The fact that certain presenters are paid beyond the means of the business, like premiership footballers will inevitably be resolved by market pressures.

Lets not let it go the way of so many other greats and be asset stripped and carved up for the sake of short term political and commercial gain!