tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post8515553481908194207..comments2024-03-26T15:57:13.443+00:00Comments on On An Overgrown Path: There's a lot of space in your music, but it's all you needUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-35560553323458958792012-11-12T04:56:47.151+00:002012-11-12T04:56:47.151+00:00True, pli. I thought they lost it with their cover...True, pli. I thought they lost it with their coverage of the war on Iraq. Still like the Two Ronnies, though :-)<br /><br />Salams,<br /><br />b.billoohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10716970909272480118noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8060605.post-2472321957078981532012-11-11T12:29:16.156+00:002012-11-11T12:29:16.156+00:00This is indeed a tragic tale, and I can understand...This is indeed a tragic tale, and I can understand your personal sadness over it, Bob. Some 20+ years ago, I chatted with the chief technician at a fine new theatre in Duncan, on Vancouver Island. He was from England, a man of about 60, and he told me that he had joined the BBC straight from school. There, he told me, he had had the finest apprenticeship imaginable. And at the completion of it, he was summarily chucked out, but with the admonition that he must go and get a job elsewhere, make a success of it, and then return to the BBC, where a job would await him. That is what he did, working there until he decided to move to Canada to be near his daughter and her family.<br /> <br />What I heard was a great testimonial to the old Beeb. If I could but talk to the editors of those times long gone, I have to wonder if I might not hear parallel stories. This latest debacle shows just how deep are the problems in that department. By comparison, the problem of the presenters on Radio 3 is no mystery: the Corporation simply s topped engaging true experts and hired semi-educated 'personalities'. Among people of their generation, there is no greater guarantee that someone is likely to be semi-educated than a university degree, quite possibly in 'Communications', though few of them spout more twaddle than Tom Service, Ph.D. (in, gulp, music). The debasing of the education system plays a large part in all this. I'm far from the only retired academic to be mighty glad to be out of it, and I'd much like to continue my own research interests and ignore it. But that I can't do, for the media as a whole are a constant reminder of what we have wrought. Philip Amoshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11739418522974972567noreply@blogger.com