I don't believe this was OT, the poster made it clear how it related to the article; that the BBC has an obligation to their funders (the British taxpayers.)
I'm an ex BBC Online employee. Most people don't realise quite how few people are involved in the creation and update of the BBC website. When I was there it was generally 2 people per site (and each person was on more than one site). We had a dozen staff looking after a hundred sites using old and borrowed tech and the occasional independent flash developer.
The BBC was never wasteful. Don't believe what you read in the anti-BBC press. They have their own agenda.
BBC FM&T and R&D did/does awesome stuff with little resources. It appears to outsiders-who-care that the problem exists higher up, especially with decisions such as adopting Siemens to provide infrastructure support (Talk about locking in what existed 10 years ago with an SLA!), and the perverted influence of people like Highfield and now, surprisingly, Huggers.
All big organisation have areas of waste but content is the BBC's raison d'être, not something that should be discarded to save money.