BBC cutting back its foreign network, in this case in CEE/Balkans.
Governments spend countless billions on soft power. Can you imagine the cost of the BBC having a stringer in the Balkans vs the benefits it brings not just to BBC viewers but also Britain? Completely mad.
Stanley Pignal
Is binning expert correspondents in eastern Europe a good idea at a time like this? Disinformation on the rise, Russia interfering in many countries, threatening several and actually at war with one? Well, BBC News management seems to think so. It's disposing of me and 4 of my colleagues.
