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The Guardian - UK
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BBC's quality control issues

Mark Thompson
Mark Thompson ... suffering from radio interference? Photograph: Ben Stansall/AFP/Getty Images

Radio 4 producer Gill Darlington has given short shrift to director general Mark Thompson's new slogan: "Delivering Quality First." Darlington says in the Telegraph: "It's tantamount to saying that, up until now, all we've been doing is serving up mediocre tut [sic] to an undiscerning audience and any hint of quality has been a mere afterthought." Naughty suggestions that that's now Channel 5's remit are, quite obviously, wide of the mark.

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