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	2.03: Can the BBC Be Saved?
		And al-though some of the criticisms aimed at Birt are damning, it's hard to argue with the direction of the changes he's pushing, or to come up with plausible alternatives; none of Birt's critics have.
		But Birt and his lieutenants know that maintaining support for the license fee will be increasingly difficult as people go for satellite and cable.
		Birt's cost cutting, his market-driven orientation and his experimentation with World Service Television and the ABC alliance are a start.
	www.wired.com /wired/archive/2.03/bbc_pr.html (5363 words)

	John Birt (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		John Birt, Baron Birt (born 10 December 1944), served as the Director-General of the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) from 1992 to 2000, having previously been deputy director-general since 1987.
		Birt was born in Liverpool and educated at St Mary's College, Liverpool and St Catherine's College, Oxford.
		Birt became a hate figure for many on the Left, who were often still lamenting the sacking of Alasdair Milne by the Thatcher government in 1987 - his complex internal market reforms of the BBC were hated by many of its employees, and were dismantled by his successor Greg Dyke.
	publicliterature.org /en/wikipedia/j/jo/john_birt.html (189 words)

	Peer with a plan \| Media \| MediaGuardian.co.uk
		Birt has privately denied that he had a hand in drawing up the proposals and may yet announce that, after all, he is not in favour of top slicing.
		John Birt joined the BBC at a time when the Prime Minister was ideologically open to the idea of privatisation or sell-off, and worked hard on the non-Thatcherite wing of the Conservative party to preserve a view of the BBC as mattering.
		Birt left the BBC in 2000, took his seat in the House of Lords, and in 2001 was appointed Blair's 'blue-skies thinker'.
	media.guardian.co.uk /site/story/0,14173,1553500,00.html (1651 words)

	BBC, John Birt, Anne Nelson - CJR, Nov/Dec 1998
		John Birt, director-general since 1993, had to confront certain institutional weaknesses on his watch: the BBC's resistance to new technology, its economic dependence on the license fee, and its insularity.
		Birt responded to the technological challenge by pushing his vision of the BBC as a twenty-first-century "information provider." The Beeb hopes to build on its assets -- public confidence and mind-boggling archival materials -- by, in current management parlance, "taking them across platforms," or extending the information through a variety of traditional and new media.
		Birt's successor has yet to be named, but it is universally assumed that, like Birt, he or she will have news as both professional background and first loyalty.
	archives.cjr.org /year/98/6/britain2.asp (1006 words)

	Bi-Bz
		Originally from Ballarat, jockey-sized (173cm, 68kg) rover Johnny Birt began his VFL career with Essendon in 1957, and was one of the Bombers' best in a losing grand final against Melbourne in his debut year.
		John Blair was a fiercely competitive centre half back who became a key figure in Queensland football, having moved north in 1981 after playing with South Melbourne (27 games), Fitzroy (4) and St Kilda (2) from 1975 to 1980.
		After playing in North Adelaide's colts and thirds premiership teams of 1947 and 1948 respectively, John Blunden was promoted to the seniors in 1949 and ended the season with a superb performance on a half back flank as the red and whites overcame West Torrens in the grand final.
	www.fullpointsfooty.net /bi-bz.htm (10216 words)

	Take a BrainSip (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Birt worked his way up at LWT alongside Michael Grade where the two formed a career animosity.
		Birt was a source of immediate controversy following his appointment when it was revealed he was being employed as a consultant and therefore writing off numerous personal expenses against tax.
		Birt also invested heavily in Digital Broadcast resources for the BBC but this was criticised at being at the expense of the BBC's core programming with BBC grandees such as John Tusa launching attacks.
	john-birt.mestskadoprava.sk (351 words)

	Observer review: The Harder Path by John Birt \| Review \| The Observer
		The next step was to import John Birt from London Weekend Television as deputy director general and scourge of the wild west London department, BBC Current Affairs.
		And it is difficult to believe, as Birt purports, that he did not have a hand in the appointment of Sir Christopher Bland, his former colleague at LWT, as the new BBC chairman.
		Birt was attacked by Dennis Potter as 'a croak-voiced Dalek' and by Brian Wenham, the director general we never had, as 'Pol Pot'.
	observer.guardian.co.uk /review/story/0,6903,819910,00.html (1253 words)

	John Birt Cartoons
		John Birt cartoon 1 - catalog reference nbe0331
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	www.cartoonstock.com /directory/j/john_birt.asp (196 words)

	Eleanor Mills meets John Birt 28
		John Birt, director-general of the BBC, must be one of the most unpopular men in Britain.
		The foyer is like a smart minimalist hotel and Birt's lair has a similar impersonal tone - pebbles in a dish on the grainy wood table, light wooden panels with an unpleasant white "wash", an imposing fl leather director's chair and five empty wooden in-trays.
		Birt has asked for an extra £1.32 billion, equivalent to £30 on every TV licence, to ensure that the BBC in the digital age "retains its place at the heart of the culture".
	homepages.westminster.org.uk /steven.curran/contemporary/john_birt___.htm (1693 words)

	BBC News \| UK POLITICS \| John Birt: Blair's 'crimebuster'
		The choice of John Birt as Tony Blair's one-day-a-week, unpaid "crimebuster" has surprised many and been hailed as an inspired and overdue appointment by no one.
		At 56, Lord Birt sits as a crossbencher in the House of Lords, but is known to be a long-standing supporter and one-time member of Labour, as well as a close personal friend of Tony Blair.
		Lord Birt also had to fight off criticism in 1993 when it emerged that he was being paid as a company and employing his wife as its secretary, rather than being a salaried employee of the corporation.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/uk_politics/826943.stm (701 words)

	John Birt - Nuclear Spin
		Lord John Birt was born 10 December 1944.
		On December 15, 2005 Birt announced that he was leaving Downing Street to take up a post with the private equity firm Terra Firma.
		Birt is widely reported to be pro-nuclear and his unpublished report on energy is said to recommend the expansion of nuclear power.
	www.nuclearspin.org /index.php/John_Birt (657 words)

	FT.com / World / UK - John Birt leaves Downing Street for Terra Firma (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Lord Birt said: “I told the prime minister at the time of the election that, for personal reasons, and with regret, I would need to leave Number 10 by the end of the year.
		Sir John, who was BBC Director General from 1992 to 2000 and received his life peerage in 2000, recently came under fire for refusing to appear before a committee of MPs studying strategic thinking and planning in government.
		Mr Birt will not be allowed to lobby ministers on behalf of his new company for twelve months.
	www.ft.com /cms/s/bd6ca9ca-6d6d-11da-a4df-0000779e2340.html (467 words)

	John Birt - Moviefone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Sir John was awarded the life peerage as Baron Birt, of Liverpool in the County...
		John Birt met his first wife, then Jane Lake, an American art student at...
		President John Quincy Adams tried to be nonpartisan in his appointments in 1825, but quickly discovered that caused problems.
	movies.aol.com /celebrity/john-birt/304454/main (137 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Sir John Birt's tribute to Jill Dando
		Sir John Birt: Jill Dando was "adored by everyone she worked with"
		Sir John Birt, Director-General of the BBC, gave this special address at Jill Dando's memorial service on Tuesday 28 September 1999.
		She was born and brought up there; and that's where she spent her early working years.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/459941.stm (909 words)

	Telegraph \| Comment \| The rise of John Birt, the dalek of Downing Street
		The permanent secretaries were told that Lord Birt, the former director-general of the BBC who has become Tony Blair's trusted strategy adviser, should be included in discussions about all major proposals for the future.
		Lord Birt is now the most influential adviser in Downing Street, having replaced Alastair Campbell and Peter Mandelson as the Prime Minister's closest confidant on the sofa.
		In his autobiography, Lord Birt approvingly quotes Lady Thatcher's observation that: "The prime minister should be intimidating, there's not much point being a weak, floppy thing in a chair." Or, indeed, on a sofa.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2005/01/10/do1001.xml (1177 words)

	Sir John Birt
		It was formed by a consortium of wireless manufacturers in the UK who had this wonderful technology and wanted the consumers to take it up and decided that nobody seemed to be willing to provide any programs.
		One of the reasons for the music and people, again not much known, was that John Reith actually, before he became Director General of the BBC, worked for quite a long time in America.
		The organization that [John Reith] helped create and which flourished for decades thereafter now faces, together with other broadcasters in the world, possibly the biggest challenge in its history.
	www.lawac.org /speech/pre%20sept%2004%20speeches/birt.html (2871 words)

	Amazon.com: "John Birt": Key Phrase page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		JOHN BIRT'S RESPONSE TO HIS CRITICS 75 2.10 Producer Choice and Organisational Change at the BBC John Birt's Response to his Critics...
		The news of the world This uncanny anticipation of the impact of John Birt on the BBC predated his appointment as its chief journalist by nearly a decade.
		The appointment of John Birt to the position of Director-General of the BBC has brought his philosophy of `Mission To Explain' and the challenge to...
	www.amazon.com /phrase/John-Birt (639 words)

	Amazon.fr : Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea: John Birt and Britain's Broadcasting Revolution: Livres en ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Written by the leading media analyst and writer, Mathew Horsman, and with exclusive co-operation from John Birt himself, Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea charts the fascinating reign of the BBC's most influential and radical Director General.
		Only nine years later John Birt steps down as Director General of a BBC which broadcasts on ten TV channels, five radio stations, a revitalized and more commercial radio network, a commitment to digital broadcasting, and Europe's most visited website.
		He has been accused of "dumbing down" the world's greatest broadcasting network through the popularization of the sacred entity that is the BBC News and the taking on of the commercial stations in head-to-head scheduling.
	www.amazon.fr /Between-Devil-Deep-Blue-Sea/dp/1587990105 (446 words)

	John Birt, Baron Birt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Financial Times reported [9] at the beginning of July 2005 that Birt's office ceiling at No10 Downing Street had fallen in.
		Birt and Wallis marriage took place on 16 December 2006 at Islington Register Office, attended by neither set of children and costing just the registrar's fees of £103.50, plus £30 to post the notice of marriage.
		A reception was held after the ceremony at the fashionable London St John restaurant in Smithfield
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Birt (1528 words)

	Morning press briefing from 18 January
		Questioned further on the matter of classifying documents, she said she was not aware of such a practice.
		Asked about John Birt's continuing role at Downing Street, the PMS said that he was a part-time unpaid advisor to the Prime Minister who looked at a wide range of areas and issues from time to time as described by the media as "blue sky thinking".
		Questioned further about his contribution she said it was considered that Lord Birt had a valuable contribution to make through his wide experience.
	www.number-10.gov.uk /output/Page6941.asp (697 words)

	Spinwatch - John Birt in cash for advice controversy
		John Birt, the former BBC director general who advises Tony Blair on long-term government strategy, has asked to be paid for advice which up to now he has given freely, according to Whitehall sources.
		Lord Birt's role has increased since the head of the Downing Street Strategy Unit, Geoff Mulgan, left in July.
		After 12 years at the BBC, Lord Birt was enlisted to advise the Prime Minister on combating crime four years ago, and has been an unpaid "strategy adviser" ever since.
	www.spinwatch.org /content/view/494/9 (408 words)

	John Birt Cartoons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		John Birt cartoon 1 - catalog reference nbe0331
		Related topics: bbc, john birt, bbc governers, cleaner, executive, burocracy, red tape, middle management, management, mangers,
		Copyright in this image is owned by the original artist, rights to reproduce or use the image may be obtained from www.CartoonStock.com.
	www.cartoonstock.co.uk /directory/j/john_birt.asp (121 words)

	ZNet \| Mainstream Media \| BBC Machinations
		Among those currently mentioned as a new BBC chairman is John Birt, the former director general made a lord by Blair.
		During the late 1980s, Birt decreed that the views of Irish Republican representatives could be broadcast only if an actor mimed their words.
		This crime, and this alone, is the single issue crying out to be reported with genuine rigour, not "inquired into" by yet another establishment panel clearing an exit for those responsible.
	www.zmag.org /content/print_article.cfm?itemID=4942§ionID=21 (806 words)

	Baron Birt (of Liverpool), John Birt Biography (1944– ) Online Encyclopedia Article About Baron Birt (of Liverpool), ...
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	encyclopedia.jrank.org /Cambridge/entries/070/Baron-Birt-of-Liverpool-John-B.html (230 words)

	John Birt : The Harder Path the Autobiography by John Birt - 0316860190
		John Birt : The Harder Path the Autobiography by John Birt - 0316860190
		John Birt : The Harder Path the Autobiography
		Born in 1944 into a working-class Liverpool family, John Birt established a sense of duty early in life.
	www.allbookstores.com /book/0316860190/John_Birt/John_Birt.html (130 words)

	An outsider at the BBC - Times Online
		When he joined the BBC, Lord Birt was shocked by its apathy and wastefulness.
		“Yeah, the BBC used to be a right cushy number until that bloke John Birt took over!” he revealed.
		As Birt prepared to leave the BBC after negotiating a new charter, his old colleague Greg Dyke was named as his successor and the Government announced a new funding settlement for the corporation.
	www.timesonline.co.uk /article/0,,3481-446767,00.html (1633 words)

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