false economy

While the BBC is trying desperately hard to keep up with the times, TIME Magazine writes, BBC3’s 33 year old head Danny Cohen counters the argumentation used to close his operation down: “Closing BBC 3 would be false economy. Channels don’t cost money – content does.”

Well said.

It made me think of the power-distance pyramid which explains how older generations make decisions over younger ones, completely ignoring where the true expertise lies. How can the typewriter generation, populated with people who hold their position and budget by virtue of age, make a decision over the internet generation, who know the medium intimately by virtue of experience?