"We must change again" - Mark Thompson

Mark Thompson has given a long interview to kick off the *new* Observer's Media section. The paper's James Robinson reveals, that alongside robust defences of the licence fee and citing BBC News as the best example of how the BBC is moving into the future; (my bold)

He visited California before Christmas on a fact-finding mission, meeting executives from Google, Apple and Hollywood studios, among others, to 'swap ideas and experiences. I certainly didn't feel that anyone there was ahead of our thinking'.