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"Meet Matt Brittin: ex-Googler and, if reports are to be believed, the BBC’s next director general. An executive search yielded an apparent shortlist of four women – who between them had decades of experience in broadcasting, news, and public service journalism – and one man, who didn’t"

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Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?
https://www.thenerve.news/p/matt-brittin-google-bbc-director-general-ai-death-journalism-guardian-anna-bateson

Will Google’s AI hype man kill the BBC?

Matt Brittin spent two decades at Google, a tech company helping to destroy journalism. His appointment as leader of Britain’s biggest news organisation represents an existential threat, writes Carole Cadwalladr

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H4Heights 🇪🇺🇵🇸🇺🇦🇨🇦19h ago

@junesim63 The #BBC lost it’s journalistic credibility long ago, killed by successive thin-skinned administrations and hasbara. It’s really only a light entertainment broadcaster now.

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Colin Smith 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿18h ago

@junesim63
Oh I do hope so!

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Anarcho-Daddy 18h ago

@junesim63 im in vietnam and from time to time i click on a bbc link and its blocked, and i start to get upset about the censorship but the truth is usually after a second thought its rarely worth it to turn on the vpn to see what i might be 'missing'; doesnt look like thats changing anytime soon