The latest bother at the BBC is only the start of changes that need to happen, says Jon Honeyball

It seems that our Auntie is in a tizz.

- Jon Honeyball

Recent revelations about editorial policy at the Beeb have shed a somewhat unfortunate light on the organisation. There's a fine line between editorial tidying up and using a long speech as a set of stems to create an entirely musique concrète reimagination of the events of That Speech By That President.

Some have suggested that it was an overexcited intern at the controls of the video-editing suite. I don't buy that for a moment. Even if it was, it shows a shocking lack of process control that something like this could actually get onto air. So while it's only appropriate that the two head honchos have resigned, this should not simply be a decapitation event. The production process should come under scrutiny to work out what happened, and by whom.

Part of the problem is that the BBC is no longer a singular “thing”. It outsources much of its production work to third-party companies, who feed their output into the BBC engine for transmission. It's always illuminating to watch the end of the credits for a BBC TV programme to see just who actually made it.

For myself, I almost never watch the BBC or listen to its radio output any more. And I come from an era where there were three TV stations, with Channel 4 yet to be invented. The BBC basked in the glow of being the Nation's Broadcaster, if only because it had something approaching a monopoly.