00:00Are you surprised by this story, or do you think it's right that Davey and Ternus took the decision to just walk away from what has been a pretty turbulent time?
00:13It has, but it's been going on behind the scenes for quite a while.
00:16And we'll know that this has been going on for months and months.
00:18From whenever Ofcom will initially have raised that complaint, behind the scenes there will have been a lot of back and forth about what should we do here.
00:25I think a few things have happened at the BBC that meant that their position was untenable.
00:28First of all, it wasn't tackled in the correct way.
00:31Admitting that something has been done incorrectly, stating a formal apology, and then on Sunday morning going on the BBC and saying,
00:39we apologise, we've made a mistake, which they'll do quite readily about a story about potholes,
00:42but they won't do it when it comes to something of such huge magnitude.
00:45The Trump administration sees this as an opportunity to take the BBC down a peg or two,
00:50not take them out, but take them down a peg or two,
00:52and to join the 34 other media entities that are currently being sued by Donald Trump.
00:57Taking into consideration that he had seven in the decade previously before he took into office,
01:01now 34 since the two presidencies, it's quite a lot.
01:05And a billion dollars, actually not a lot that he's taken them for when you take into consideration some of the other ones that I'll talk about in a second.
01:11Did they make the right decision to leave?
01:13You will know, if you know anything about the industry, that the DG and the CEO are not the people who made the end decisions here,
01:20but they're being complacent in the fact that they kept so quiet about it for so long,
01:25and that they didn't open up and they didn't say, right, let's open it completely.
01:27And I think you have to do this, because there will be a parliamentary inquiry about this,
01:31because it is public money that is funded in the BBC.
01:33And I think what we're seeing here is damage control.
01:38An effort to prevent or try and protect the BBC's credibility are what little remains.
01:44But I think that they're facing a bit of a losing battle.
01:46And even just YouGov have conducted a poll, which was done, I think, three months ago.
01:49So before this broke, but when there have been other BBC scandals that are broke,
01:53they've got a record low level of public trust right now.
01:5544% of the public believe that they're impartial.
01:5845% of the public believe that they were not party with that.
02:0045% of the public hope that they stand there.
02:0145% of the public believe that they're part of the public excuse.
02:0345% of the public hope.
02:04Every time they see you production and production.
02:0639% of the public Будitch has supported with youresto projects with age-de accord.
02:0739% of the public trust.
02:0830% of the public trust.
02:0940% of the public trust.
02:1145% of the public trust.
02:13No thanks to her community,
02:15and has wanted them to point out,
02:1741% of the public trust.
02:1925% of the public trust council to do that,
02:21as a chance of Instagramüs helpful and have noticed goodbye.
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