Howard Stringer Talks Trump's Threats to BBC
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I need to set this up for our American audience. Sir Howard Stringer is from the low side of Wales called Cardiff. David Blanchflaw of Dartmouth is from Cardiff as well. And he had the most interesting, interesting start to his career. You know him, of course, from Sony. You know him perhaps from CBS. Paul Sweeney and I can do a three-hour discussion with Stringer. He's 79 and holding, you know, Paul, just so you know. Sure, no problem there. Sir Howard Stringer joins us this morning here, but specifically on the BBC and what it means for his United Kingdom. Sir Howard Stringer, thank you so much for joining Bloomberg this morning. My pleasure. I look, Sir Howard, at the debacle of the BBC, and let me just get out of the way the arch question, maybe alluded to by the former Prime Minister Johnson as well.
Should the BBC leave as a publicly funded effort and join private enterprise? I would say not.
I would say the brilliance of the BBC, it was designed as an institution that would be fairer and offer truth and fairness to a British audience and subsequently to a worldwide audience with a worldwide news network. And in many ways, American television was built on that standard. And so giving that trust up, giving that opportunity up, I think would be a mistake.
How do they restructure emotionally? How do they recapture the minds of the United Kingdom to say, you can trust us? It's been shattered with this debate with the President, the President Trump folks suggesting he will sue the BBC for many billions of dollars. Howard Stringer, what is the first step to rekindle a new trust with the British?
Well, I think... with all great institutions, leadership is critical and presumably there will be discussions about who runs the BBC now very quickly and how the board is constructed and lessons will be learned. I think that's been true across the board. When I was at CBS News, we were under attack by the government. I had conversations in a lawsuit with General Westmoreland, and before that, I had conversations with Presidents Nixon and Reagan, that news divisions, news division is only a part of the BBC, but news divisions are always the threat to politicians. And politicians tend to dislike you if you suggest they're wrong. And so the BBC has always been had a reputation for fairness. Now it's under attack now, and I think lessons will be learned regardless of what we feel about it.
But the BBC is very important to global democracy, and I think President Trump knows that.
Howard Stringer with us. Sir Howard Stringer, folks, this morning here with all of his work with Sony and CBS News over the years. We welcome all of you, and particularly the United Kingdom this morning with the uproar over the BBC. Paul Sweeney with Sir Howard.
Howard, how does the BBC, how is it positioned in the UK today in the media, overall media landscape? Maybe how has that changed over time?
Well, I think it's misunderstood or dimly perceived in the
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