Trolls - guys with big sticks who threaten you, right?

Ask a few who have not stumped up the telly tax on time.

I have had an issue with what the new Newsnight editor has written, in his first sally forth since not doing a great job helping one of his staff a few months' back...

What spending would you cut?

'I realise this will prompt a lot of trolls to argue the first on the list should be the BBC. '

Just the bits that don't do their jobs cost-effectively, if indeed anywhere close to meeting the terms of the Charter. For instance, case-wise, I am unsure if I am getting value for money ushering the DG and DDG to and from the railway station is quite the best use of funds. Or flying reporters to stand on some white stuff to say the rest of us flying places is causing it to melt.

Usually it's arranged for a supportive non-troll to get the first weak interception tackle in, so maybe the cuts have already resulted in the authors trying to do so themselves.

But I am not sure that creating such a Bushist 'If you are not with us you're a troll' challenge from the outset, by a senior public servant does much more than prove a lot of points.

ps: Any more to add on 'interpreting the events of the President of the United States' first major speech in the edit suite.... to 'enhance the narrative'?

I am canceling my licence fee DD now.

I will be interested in the BBC making a good case for my restarting it. Or will you just send Capita round?

ps: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troll_(Internet) - oddly, it lopped off the bit at the end and changed the URL to another page. Not sure it hurt, mind.

I must have missed the bit where it also includes just having other views to those being promoted, or seeking to hold professional standards to account.

For those who like living in group think comfort zones, I'd suggest one doesn't take part in, much less instigate controversial blogs.

Especially ones funded by an audience that may include some that one is so unhappy having to deal with that it overcomes the temptation not to pronounce from positions of public sector entrenchment that recent days have indeed shown to be shaky pedestals.

And, for good measure, as he has run two similar, but slightly different blogs in series (until the mods and clean up crews sort it all out, as per usual, with no hint it ever happened...

What would you cut?*

I'd also cut out duplicate threads.

*Now, there is a thing... 'It is possible that the page you were looking for may have been moved, updated or deleted.' Or just cut. Ironic, no?