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"Alan White" wrote in message
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On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 10:24:13 +0100, Zathras
wrote:

Your old lot got sold to Siemens..which kind of implies that the BBC
didn't want them!

Well, you're quite right. During Burt, the bean counters identified
Engineering as an unwanted overhead which was draining money from the
programme makers so bits of it were sold off to Siemens. One of the
consequences of Burt was that the post of Director of Engineering was
abolished. Director of Engineering was a member of the BBC Board of
Management, had international status and was in a position to ensure
that the highest technical standards were maintained and those standards
were internationally recognised and respected. He had real clout. A
direct outcome of the abolition of the post is the technical mess that
the BBC's in today.

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Now instead you have a Director of Personnel, a Director of Marketing FFS,
and a Director of "New Medjia". All three are none jobs. I'd rather have one
engineer any day.

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On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 10:27:05 -0000, "Light of Aria"
wrote:

Now instead you have a Director of Personnel, a Director of Marketing FFS,
and a Director of "New Medjia". All three are none jobs. I'd rather have one
engineer any day.

Perhaps the "B Ark" should be moved from fiction to its rightful place
as an essential tool if this country is ever to recover! Useless
people take far too much of the pot and leave genuine creators of
value with not enough.

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Z

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On Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 10:41:15h +0000, Zathras wrote:

Perhaps the "B Ark" should be moved from fiction to its rightful place
as an essential tool if this country is ever to recover!

I thought that most of the economy of the UKofGB&NI now ran on the
efforts of B Ark people?

Nowadays, almost all politicians appear to be B Ark people as well.

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On Thu, 2 Dec 2010 14:26:08 +0000 (UTC), J G Miller
wrote:

On Thursday, December 2nd, 2010 at 10:41:15h +0000, Zathras wrote:

Perhaps the "B Ark" should be moved from fiction to its rightful place
as an essential tool if this country is ever to recover!

I thought that most of the economy of the UKofGB&NI now ran on the
efforts of B Ark people?

Nowadays, almost all politicians appear to be B Ark people as well.

Well..exactly. What hope is there?

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Z