Acknowledging that the level of interest in the corporation’s cock-ups was reaching epidemic proportions - even sometimes reaching beyond the corridors of Broadcasting House itself - the BBC’s acting Director General, Tim Davie, has announced that from now on the rolling news service will “concentrate entirely on BBC-related issues”.
News items will be interspersed with members of staff interviewing each other, in an attempt to find the guilty parties, and demonstrations of hand-wringing, soul-searching and morose introspection by some of the top-level executives. Other programmes, expanding on the BBC’s tribulations, will include Who are we and what are we here for?, an unflinchingly honest dissection of an organisation obsessed with itself. It will be followed in the schedules by Why are we so obsessed with ourselves?, a candid 24-part series which will examine, in-depth, the whole concept of navel-gazing. At four in the morning, every morning, while most people are asleep, the rolling news service will run a slide show of portraits, featuring sacked BBC staff members, accompanied by a soundtrack of a woman sobbing...
