BREAKING: Boris Johnson has asked former Mail editor Paul Dacre to run thr broadcasting watchdog Ofcom. Charles Moore is close to a done deal to be BBC chairman https://t.co/rlQmfcDSGq
That’s not much you can say really without being ‘political’.
Obviously the government has the right to choose who they want for the job. But I’m not sure putting in people known for their political bias is going to be be very healthy for balanced journalism on TV.
Disappointing and unsurprising appointment. Let's hope it can at least be discussed here without censorship because like it or not these are political appointments with ramifications for British television.
Putting Paul Dacre in charge of OFCOM is bizarre. He is a notorious technophobe, famously dismissing the internet as the future of news in the late 1990s. I suspect Channel 4, who were the target of some ferocious Mail campaigns during his editorship, will have more reason to worry than the BBC.