In support of Greg Dyke and the BBC…

In the Daily Telegraph today is an advert/petition paid for and signed by many thousands of BBC staff asserting the fierce independence of the BBC and talking about Greg Dyke’s leadership as Director General (see Guardian article). I don’t have a lot to say about it except to say that unfortunately my name and those of many other people I know couldn’t fit onto the page, but that shouldn’t in any way be read as a lack of support. It was signed and supported financially by many more people than could fit onto that page – myself included – and its impressive scale should be viewed as just a slice of the even larger genuine ground-swell of sentiment throughout the organisation.