![]() We want a situation where if you want to find out if your team has won, or the weather in Cornwall, or what’s happening in the Ukraine war, you turn to the BBC. “‘Relevance’ feels like an unremarkable word but it’s so important. “As Tim Davie says, all we really want is respect and to be relevant,” she went on to say. ![]() Sunak now needs to decide whether he proceeds with the license fee review, while the fee has already been frozen in line with inflation for the next two years, a move that will cost the corporation hundreds of millions of pounds in lost revenue as program costs skyrocket.Ĭanada-born Doucet is a huge champion of the 100-year-old public broadcaster and has spent the past couple of weeks speaking at a European Broadcasting Union conference and interviewing Director General Tim Davie at Mipcom Cannes, as she works tirelessly to preserve what makes the BBC great. ![]() The goodwill directed towards the BBC in the early days of the war has slipped of late, with high-profile incidents including, most recently, a BBC News presenter taken off air for saying she was “gleeful” after Johnson pulled out of the Prime Ministerial race. Credit: UKRINFORM/Ukrinform/NurPhoto via AP While observers questioned how Doucet remained so calm in the face of constant bombing, gunfire and having to seek refuge in shelters, she said her biggest fear throughout has been “getting the words, or the story, wrong.” Instead, we were proud to play our part in what felt like the very first rough draft of a piece of history.” “Imagine the alternative? If she had said ‘You’ve got it wrong,’ ‘You’re biased’ or ‘I’m not listening to you’ then that would have seriously mattered to us. “Hearing Nadine say we had met our greatest test was amazing,” she said. When they heard this news, the Ukraine-based BBC team “all cheered,” according to Doucet. The coverage was received so positively that arch-BBC sceptic Culture Secretary Nadine Dorries, the originator of the license fee review who has since moved on, used a parliamentary debate to emotionally heap praise on BBC and ITV journalists “risking their lives” on the frontline. Credit: Hannah McKay – WPA Pool/Getty Images Lyse Doucet and Clive Myrie meet then-Prince Charles at BBC New Broadcasting House in April.
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