General   (General discussion, talk about anything.)

Fossil: The BBC used to simply report the news. When John Birt became Director General in 1992 he changed things. You might remember his comment about "blue sky thinking", but he said that the BBC needed to "explain" the news.
That opened the door for the likes of Laura Doomsburg and all the others that we've had, "political commentators". In other words, the plebs are too stupid to understand the news and need lots of overpaid people with their own views to indoctrinate, oh sorry, teach them how to think.