I don’t really know what point you’re making by posting that link – without any comment from you it makes it difficult to engage in an argument really, but I’ll my best.

If you’re implying that I’m jumping on a bandwagon of similarly outraged non-listeners of 6Music then you’re very wrong. I’ve been a listener to 6 since the days when Phil Jupitus was on the breakfast show and that’s quite a while ago now. If you check back through my previous blogs you’ll see that I’ve been referencing 6Music way before it hit the headlines.

If, however, you are merely implying that others are jumping on a bandwagon that may be so. That’s as much the case with our politicians who are making judgements without actually listening to the service. Are Mark Thompson or Tim Davie regular listeners to 6Music? I dout it or they wouldn’t be making such a poor decision to close the station.

Yet this issue gets the heart of the BBC’s direction and strategy – the corporation is in a mess really and the recent Strategic Review is simply tweaking at the edges and not getting to the heart of issue – in radio terms that would be Radios 1 and 2 and their relationship to commerical rivals. Mark Thompson would have you believe he’s slimming down the BBC but he’s not, he’s merely diverting more money into ‘high quality programming’ – exactly what 6Music provides, I would argue, and what a service like BBC Three often doesn’t.

The BBC’s obsession with demographics and its dodgy political positioning is clouding its judgement, and that’s the reason I feel so passionately about this review. Especially when it means that 6Music could be shut down.