Cultural Vandalism and the Crisis of Public Broadcasting

If BBC Scotland’s leadership has decided that work is finished, it should say so plainly. It should put its name to the decision in public. What it should not do is dismantle a national cultural institution behind the language of cornerstones, commitments and evolution, while staffing the editorial floor with executives from the very commercial model the BBC was meant to stand apart from.

Scotland deserves to know what it is losing before it is gone. After it is gone, there may be no national radio platform left to ask.