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A sense of perspective on the BBC
By Joan Bakewell - 15 November 8:28

This a flawed, human institution like any other.

Chris Patten, Chairman of the BBC Trust.
Why the Tories’ knives are out for Chris Patten
By Tristram Hunt - 15 November 8:24

There's quite a lot of settling old scores going on, says Tristram Hunt.

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Each BBC crisis sows the seed for the next
By Jason Cowley - 15 November 8:17

After the Newsnight debacle, it is excessive caution – not recklessness – that threatens the BBC.

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David Dimbleby - a possible future Director General?
Give us someone to care about
By David Herman - 15 November 7:01

We need a BBC Director General who is popular, like David Dimbleby or Melvyn Bragg.

The BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House
Leader: The need for the BBC is as great today as it has ever been
By New Statesman - 15 November 6:31
Men walk past a bank of television screens in the BBC headquarters
We must defend the BBC from Murdoch and death by a thousand Tory cuts
By Mehdi Hasan - 14 November 18:41

If we want to preserve quality public-service broadcasting in Britain, we must defend the Beeb.

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Ninety years of BBC radio – listening back through time
By Caroline Crampton - 14 November 17:04

On 14 November 1922, the first ever BBC radio broadcast went out. At troubled time for the corporation, remind yourself of all the great things it has done in the last 90 years.

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The BBC fightback begins
By George Eaton - 14 November 17:01

In tomorrow's New Statesman, BBC director of television Roger Mosey and Joan Bakewell ride to the corporation's defence.

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Memo to Fleet Street: it isn't just the BBC that makes mistakes
By Jon Stone - 13 November 15:03

Before excoriating the BBC, the papers should recall their own recent errors.

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An employee walks inside BBC headquarters at New Broadcasting House.
The BBC is still the most trusted media organisation
By George Eaton - 13 November 12:51

But trust in the corporation has nearly halved since 2003.

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