BBC ‘must stop catering to idiots’  The BBC should stop
scrabbling for audiences and worrying about how to get “an extra
million idiots” to watch shows like Snog, Marry, Avoid?, radio
presenter Libby Purves said.  The broadcaster, who presents
Midweek on Radio 4, said there had been failures of “nerve and
taste”, absurd management systems and an “obsession” with
avoiding causing offence at the corporation.  BBC ‘must stop
catering to idiots’ The BBC should stop scrabbling for
audiences, broadcaster Libby Purves said BBC ‘must stop catering
to idiots’  Purves said the BBC does not always “treasure their
front-line people” and called for the broadcaster to stop
overpaying and poaching celebrities from other channels.  She
wrote in the Radio Times: “Does the BBC want to be the fattest
tiger in the jungle, or a national resource; anxious to help
rather than desperate to imitate, blazing trails, chasing
quality not quantity?  “Need it get bogged down fretting how to
get an extra million idiots watching (BBC3′s) Sn