Re: [Swprograms] [Internetradio] BBCWS Web Site

["Rob de Santos" <rdesantos@xxxxxxxxx>]

Couldn't have said it better myself. Spot on John. 

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-Rob de Santos

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[mailto:internetradio-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of John Figliozzi
Sent: Monday, November 05, 2012 10:54 PM
To: DXLD
Cc: Internet radio discussion; Shortwave programming discussion
Subject: [Internetradio] BBCWS Web Site

Nothing epitomizes the impact of drastic budget cuts on the World Service than
its reconfigured web site.  Skeletal, amateurish, replete with dead links and
missing information... it is truly an embarrassment.  More importantly, the cuts
are taking a noticeable toll on its on-air and online programming as longtime
news and broadcast professionals start to leave what they obviously perceive to
be a proverbial sinking ship.  It's hard to see how management pulls this
organization out of what certainly seems to be starting to resemble a death
spiral.

I never thought I'd ever see anything like this happen to what was once such a
confident, thoroughly professional and iconic institution.  For me, the blame
goes to successive incompetent short-sighted governments on all sides and a
management that began embracing commercial values and forgetting and all but
abandoning its public service roots and ethos that at one time set it apart
from, and well above, the crowd.  What a bloody tragedy.

John Figliozzi
Halfmoon, NY


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