It is telling, as well as poignantly ironic, that by far the most rigorous and informed debate about the crisis at the BBC should have been conducted… on the BBC. Its various news channels have excelled themselves. It is impossible to imagine any other media organisation subjecting itself in such a near-masochistic fashion to external scrutiny.
Wags joke about BBC presenters in the BBC newsroom interviewing a BBC reporter outside the BBC to ask what the feeling is among journalists inside the BBC. Yet this is what accountability looks like.
