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BBC Raises Concerns Over Government Influence After White Paper Publication
- The Guardian, Friday, May 13, 2016 6:28 AM
Concerns that ministers will have too much power over the BBC, because they will be able to appoint six members of its executive board, were raised by the corporation’s director general after the publication of the white paper on its future. Tony Hall called the change in the BBC’s governance the “most significant reform in the BBC’s history.”
