Random Toilet Reading No.1: the BBC and the free market

dan — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 00:32:40 +0100

Two things:

1. I am compelled to sing the praises of random finding of things to read, in this case particularly bathroom reading. What a wonder it is to go for a poo, many times discovering what article or bit of reading someone else has got half way through. I've come across so many interesting and relevant things this way that I would never have sought out myself.

Often, others in the house have obviously churned their way through stuff from a while back that's accumulated in the impromptu reading pile. It occurs to me that I'm not sure whether there's actually a reading rack next to the loo. Let me check... yes, indeed there is! Awesome. I knew that already, surely? Anyway!

2. Today's (RBR) random bathroom reading: Mark Thompson, boss of the BBC, slightly smugly argues that the White Paper on the renewal of the BBC's charter smirks in the jowls of the corporate media. Well, that's sort of what he's argues. (Sorry, couldn't get an online version currently.)

He talks about a day spent talking BBC at the Department of Culture, Media and Sport - "it was weeping and wailing: many of the commercial broadcasters had arrived in full sackcloth and ashes."

Covered in Bees dot Org - RTR

Random Toilet Reading No.1: the BBC and the free market