“As long as the appointment process is transparent and there is a broad mix of political views among the governors of the BBC, I think the public can feel confident that impartiality and independence are just as important to me as they have been to previous incumbents.” ThinkingFeelsLongHas BeensImportantPoliticalProcessViewsIndependenceBroadsGovernorsTransparentAppointmentsIncumbentsImpartialityPolitical View Author:Gavyn Davies
“Over the last decade, - economists seemed to share a broad consensus about economic policy, with the old splits between monetarists and Keynesians apparently being settled by events. But the Great Recession of the last two years has changed everything.” YearsTwoLastsShareEconomicEventsPolicyChangedDecadesTwo YearsBroadsSplitsEconomistConsensusRecessionsEconomic PolicyGreat Recession Author:Gavyn Davies
“The BBC must never be all about ratings - or even mainly about ratings. In the past year, we have made a raft of terrific programmes which stand comparison with the best the BBC has ever done: 'Blue Planet,' 'Walking with Beasts,' 'Son of God,' 'Clocking Off,' 'The Way We Live Now,' 'Conspiracy,' 'Lost World.” WorldWayYearsMadeDonePastLostPlanetsSonWalkingBlueBeastComparisonConspiracyTerrificRatingProgrammesBlue Planet Author:Gavyn Davies
“The BBC provides the commentary on our lives, the soundtrack of the nation. It is one of the most powerful unifying forces in the United Kingdom today.” TodayForceNationsUnitedPowerfulOur LivesKingdomsMost PowerfulCommentarySoundtracksUnited KingdomUnifying Author:Gavyn Davies
“There is an honourable tradition in British public life that those charged with authority at the top of an organisation should accept responsibility for what happens in that organisation. I am therefore writing to the prime minister today to tender my resignation as chairman of the BBC.” ShouldWritingHappensTodayResponsibilityAcceptingAuthorityTraditionBritishMinistersPrimePrime MinisterChairmanPublic LifeOrganisationResignation Author:Gavyn Davies
“Without the BBC, the proliferation of television and radio channels by the private sector would simply result in more and more channels, with tiny audiences, all seeking to do the same thing. The future would be one of fragmentation - fragmentation without either plurality or diversity.” Would BeResultsAudienceTelevisionDiversityRadioSeekingTinyPrivate SectorProliferationFragmentationTelevision And Radio Author:Gavyn Davies
“I went through some real challenges growing up. I joined the Army two weeks out of high school when I was 17, and never looked back.” TwoRealSchoolChallengesGrowing UpGrowingWeekHigh SchoolArmyTwo Weeks Author:Geoff Davis
“The American people know that we cannot spend our way to prosperity.” PeopleKnowsWayProsperity Author:Geoff Davis
“Ayman Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's deputy, as well as Abu Musab Zarqawi, have made it quite clear in their internal propaganda that they cannot win unless they can drive the Americans out. And they know that they can't do that there, so they've brought the battlefield to the halls of Congress.” KnowsWellsMadeWinningClearCongressMade ItPropagandaInternalsHallsBin LadenBattlefieldsOsama Bin LadenDeputies Author:Geoff Davis
“Great Britain revolutionized parts of their regulatory process by actually bringing the people who were going to be regulated to the table and suddenly found that they could solve the problems at a lot lower cost by, again, going back to the thing that tends to be most uninteresting, particularly in cable news, and looking at the actual process.” PeopleProblemFoundProcessCostNewsTablesSolveBritainCablesGreat BritainCable News Author:Geoff Davis