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My contribution to this article was more thorough than I intended, but it was not detailed enough before. Its neutrality may be disputable, although I tried to be factual rather than polemical. Still feel more can be said about Birt though.
Please place any comments on my user talk page, if you wish. Philip Cross 9 July 2005 10:51 (UTC)
I'm not sure this page is NPOV. On News and Current Affairs, I have managed to give the impression of Birt as son, father and "pervasive" holy spirit. This might not be too far from the truth (arguably), but is it fair? I don't recall a bar on potentially sacrilegious comments in the style guide! Philip Cross 15:09, 8 September 2005 (UTC)
I have removed a passage added by User:Rodericksilly:
“ | Potter's joke persisted, with the BBC’s post-production department making a Christmas tape casting Birt as Davros, the head of the Daleks, [1] which was alluded to on a BBC DVD commentary for Genesis of the Daleks by former director David Maloney. [2] | ” |
This information is only of relevance to hard-core followers of Doctor Who, and should only be included in articles about the series. It does not seem to have had wider circulation in more mainstream sources. The internal BBC's Christmas tape (which has been on YouTube) would have had limited circulation at the time. So unlike the Private Eye reference above, which is legitimate, this is not good enough evidence to suggest "Potter's joke persisted". So what if David Maloney "alluded" to this. To add this is self-indulgent and pretty irrelevant when there are so many better known opponents of Birt to cite. Maloney apparently heavily criticised Birt in his comments.
I should add that Rodericksilly and myself have had a low level edit war over this passage for some time. Philip Cross ( talk) 11:44, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
It seems odd that there's no mention of his role in the airing of An Interview with HRH The Princess of Wales.
He's mentioned in that article and it was a significant (perhaps the most significant) event in his time as BBC Director-General. It's especially relevant as he's recently been depicted in Season 5 of The Crown as playing a central role in it airing, and after the investigation into the unethical methods Martin Bashir used to convince Diana to do the interview.
Very strange not to mention it at all. WilliamTravis ( talk) 06:41, 8 November 2023 (UTC)
Design Group redundancies during the Birt era 95.146.117.162 ( talk) 15:12, 25 April 2024 (UTC)