Meanwhile, back at the BBC.....

Not one but two reports today on the BBC's handling of the Savile 'affair'.

The BBC has enemies: the Murdoch press, the Tory party.....Murdoch resents the BBC's access to so much money through the licence fee. The Tory party thinks BBC managers are lefties and unfair to the Tory party. I'm kind of resentful of having to pay for a BBC licence myself when I rarely use most BBC channels or stations and don't think much of some of them. And I suspect the Tories are right about 'left-wing bias' - if by left- wing bias we mean they don't favour the Tory party.

However, I'm convinced of a few things:

- The BBC is too big. The fact that so many senior staff can be 'moved to a new role' at the drop of a hat is a bit of a giveaway: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-20786533 And nobody gets the sack? Explain that to me, please!

- Far too much money is being spent on management and not enough on the creative side of the business.

I've just been reading about Hewlett-Packard and how this once huge and innovative US company is about to go down the tubes: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2130977,00.html HP got its reputation for innovation from the engineers who ran it until 2000. Then it felt into the hands of business experts and suddenly innovation was out and managerialism was in. HP then realised it was falling behind other companies and started looking for smaller innovative companies to take over, bought an overpriced UK firm - very unwisely - in 2011 (anyone else thinking of RBS?) and suddenly its share price is through the floor.

BBC employees are rightly proud of the innovative work it does, Its children's TV, the website, Radio 5 - all are excellent - but when was the last time BBC1 produced a Downton Abbey or a Homeland or even a Clocking On? Any challenging documentaries or drama series coming up on BBC2? Any chance of reducing the hours of repeats on Radio 4?

- What I most resent is that the BBC Trust isn't doing its job. The BBC is important to the UK, too important to be left to the managers currently running it. Chris Patten doesn't seem to have an idea what the newly formed BBC Trust should be about, but seems happy to be guided by the Director General, rather than representing us - the people who pay for it.

And the Trust is certainly not representing Scotland: http://www.scottishreview.net/KennethRoy35.shtml?utm_source=Sign-Up.to&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=281919-The+mystery+man+of+the+BBC+in+Scotland

Here's hoping this could be a fresh start for the BBC but I"m not confident.