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April 4, 2009
DCMS
This is going around.. I daren't say who is circulating it
Here is this week’s news:
DCMS is Worst Department in Whitehall
Prospect magazine, the well-respected house journal of the left, has laid into the DCMS this month. The piece is anonymous, and we promise you we didn’t write it: ‘Picking a low point is tricky, but recent decisions on product placement have come close.’ [Regular readers of this e-mail will recall our concerns on this issue.] They continue: ‘Sensing the rot, others are fleeing Burnham’s grip. All the big media decisions – over Channel 4, universal broadband and the mobile spectrum – are now being carved up between Lord Carter, Ofcom and Lord Mandelson… Under such circumstances, it’s hard to resist a geopolitical analogy. Weak, divided, ceding territory, bullied by its neighbours and likely to be broken apart in a year or two: DCMS isn’t just Britain’s worst department. It’s the Pakistan of Whitehall too.’ Ouch! More
Posted by Perkins at April 4, 2009 6:17 PM
Comments
For my part, I wonder if CILIP is the worst professional body? It is three months since I passed my contact details to them via Tim Coates at their request and I am still waiting to hear from them. Come on, guys, I'll give you a fair and unbiased thrashing if you talk to me but not if you don't!
Posted by: James Christie at April 8, 2009 10:02 PM