h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Who is Lord Reith, and why is he considered important to h2g2?

is this a QI question?????

are there any

A founder of the BBC. He believed that the BBC should have a public duty 'To educate, inform and entertain'. These are known as 'Reithian values'. Theoretically, these are still the BBC's core values.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lord_Reith

His maxim for the BBC of inform, educate and entertain pretty much sum up what hootoo is all about.

For extra QI points. He was a Nazi sympathiser.

You cheated and use google. Them QI points is mine.

Lord Reith was the founder of the BBC. He was the son of a Scottish minister and abhored swearing & spitting

Well he can off, then.

Hey, I love this.
If you put "Reith" into the search engine, then the first hit is me being silly

While we're on the subject, what does QI stand for?

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/brunel/A22174526

come on in, the waters fine

Didn't Reith purchase h2g2 for the BBC?

He can't have. He died in 1971.

I wouldn't know that without using Google

Neither did I, without checking.
I did know that he resigned from the Beeb under pressure from Chamberlain, though, ie before WWII. That probably limited his ability to buy things for Auntie almost as much as being dead.
I guess he could still have bought h2g2 in the 1930s, though. He was a pretty far-sighted bloke by all accounts.

He probably used the original

"If you put "Reith" into the search engine, then the first hit is me being silly"

mistakenly thought you meant google then and was thinking - 'What? Pinniped is Professor Jonathan Spence? An emminent historian? But why does he think his Reith lecture was silly?'

until I came back and reread what you had actually posted...

Well, yeah, though I am Professor Jonathan Spence as well, of course. To some degree. Sort of.