The Cost of Probing and Penny Pinching at the BBC

The BBC World Service has always been treated as a political tool, a weapon of foreign policy. The commitment in the integrated review to protect open quotes all 42 world service language services is a welcome sign that services including Persian, Arabic and Chinese could all be saved. There is still however no indication whether this commitment will save the 382 employees set to lose their jobs this year. It's important to stop and consider the cost of our probing and penny pinching. The price we pay is losing indispensable diplomats like Goldberg. That was Oscar Munson.