If Matt Brittin needs a measure of insight about the pressures he’s agreed to shoulder, the incoming BBC director general needs only read the valedictory speech of his predecessor. Speaking to luminaries of the Royal Television Society (RTS) earlier this month, Tim Davie revealed how he would use his neighbor’s garden as an escape hatch when Britain’s media were assembled outside his front door during times of crisis.
One of Davie’s closest allies says only two other jobs in British national life match the scrutiny that comes with running the BBC: being prime minister and managing the England football team. Ultimately, it proved too much for Davie, and a preventable scandal over a poorly edited Donald Trump speech was the final straw. Davie resigned last November, though it was not the first time he considered quitting. He nearly left after the BBC live-streamed Glastonbury act Bob Vylan chanting “death to
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