"The question is whether they'll have credibility," he added.
The advert states: "Acting as a prominent ambassador for the BBC, you'll have credibility with a wide range of internal and external stakeholders and the ability to play a significant part in shaping the BBC's role in the changing media landscape".
Because any doctor who disagrees with the fact that guns pose a threat to health will not have credibility with the medical or public health community, and would be a disgrace to the title of Surgeon General.
The next chairman of the F.C.C. will need to have credibility and vision to carry that out.
"It is very, very important that this is a politically impartial role... the one thing that's clear is this person will have to have credibility when it comes to the issue of impartiality," he added.
In its latest quarter to the end of May BlackBerry shipped 6.8m handsets; if Nokia can beat that (and the forecasts from analysts are that it has: they're putting the figure at between 7m and 8m handsets) it will begin to have credibility as the third ecosystem.
But he will have more credibility if he strengthens his own democracy.
He will have no credibility if he cannot clean up his own political operation.
