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BBC Boss Bans The Word “Talent”
The BBC's Tim Davie has talked the World Service, Huw Edwards salary & the word talent in an interview with Nick Robinson on the Today Program.
With the BBC’s review into dodgy workplace behavior kicking off following the Huw Edwards, Strictly Come Dancing and Jermaine Jenas scandals, the DG said he has banned a word that has been common parlance in the TV industry for decades. Speaking to the BBC’s Today program in the past few minutes, Davie said to presenter Nick Robinson: “We often refer to people like yourself as ‘talent’ but I’ve kind of banned that. The World Service was previously paid for by the government but changes over the past decade have now seen it mostly funded from the licence fee, while the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office gives grants for specific projects.
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