So says Tim. For my part, I make no such promise, despite our Party's new-found enthusiasm for the Beeb and the TV Tax. After all, there's such fruitful ground for criticism. For example, the Today Show interviewed the Estate Agents' Ombudsman this week - perhaps you heard it. The presenter ramped up the piece with an intro pointing out that sales have fallen 60% but complaints only 3% - which (wahey! ho ho!) shows we all hate estate agents! And then the Ombudsman, in his first sentence, said (I paraphrase) - "well, the complaints I deal with are the outcome of a process that takes about six months, so the ones I'm now dealing with come from before the crash."
Which, in all intellectual honesty, was the end of the Beeb's "story". And yet it dragged on for another three excruciatingly embarrassing minutes.
Anyway - with such "reporting" I view it as most unwise to offer as a hostage to fortune a promise not to criticise the BBC for a whole week, no matter how well-intentioned the maker of said promise.
