I don't think the BBC should be bleating its superiority as a model of anything, except perhaps as the voice of the MoD. Its reporting of British "success" in Afghanistan is both inaccurate and highly biased and, as a result, the Corporation has lost any semblance of credibility to those members of the public who are - increasingly - hearing different stories from more accurate sources.

So before you begin to cite the 'BBC Model" perhaps you ought define or, at the very least, get more up to date on exactly what model you are referring to.