Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 24, 2011 15:49:10 GMT
Consider the following current news events concerning the BBC.
BBC paying senior bosses thousands in bonuses despite promising to stop
The BBC are paying senior managers thousands in bonuses despite promising to stop the extra payments two years ago, it has been revealed.The corporation admitted they have continued to pay senior staff additional sums because they were 'contractually committed' to do so.
Director-General Mark Thompson said that pay for managers would be frozen and bonuses scrapped in a clampdown on costs.
Almost £500,000 has been paid in just two years to senior managers - although the BBC said they will stop making the payments when contracts expire.
Alan Yentob defends Andrew Marr’s £600,000 salary
Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, defends Andrew Marr and Huw Edwards from Tom Bradby's attack on their salaries.
Andrew Marr and Huw Edwards have both been keeping their heads down at the BBC after their ITV rival Tom Bradby named and shamed them in his spirited tirade against the corporation for paying its star names what he sees as unreaslistic salaries.
Alan Yentob, the BBC’s creative director who is best known claim to fame is his £6.3 million pension pot, has, however, been willing to defend his colleagues. “I think you’ll find that whenever someone is on a salary that is substantially higher than others, there are always those who grumble and complain,” says Yentob over a glass of champagne at the launch of Condé Nast Worldwide News at Vogue House in Hanover Square.
With that in mind, read this one:
Reverse BBC World Service cuts, senior Tory tells Hague
The row over the future funding of the BBC World Service intensified yesterday, when it emerged that a senior Tory MP has written to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, asking him to reconsider the cuts that he has made to the network’s budget.
Andrew Tyrie MP, who chairs the influential House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, said in a letter to Mr Hague that “I find the case for the cuts in the World Service budget difficult to justify”.
It is understood that Mr Tyrie is privately supported by senior MPs from across the politicial spectrum, including ministers.
For whose benefit should cuts to the World Service be reversed?
Has this 'senior Tory' really considered what the output of the BBC really is? He was elected to serve the people of this country, who have been hit by a overspend bill higher than that of any on previous history. What we see is it hasn't affected salaries or bonuses of the BBC hierarchy, who remain unaffected by it.
This senior Tory who thinks his plea makes him appear caring and concerned for the human beings on this planet should be kicked out of office immediately. We can see just how the BBC have affected the public in this country, if the moron had any judgement and intelligence and exercised it, he would be for cutting the BBC altogether.
BBC paying senior bosses thousands in bonuses despite promising to stop
The BBC are paying senior managers thousands in bonuses despite promising to stop the extra payments two years ago, it has been revealed.The corporation admitted they have continued to pay senior staff additional sums because they were 'contractually committed' to do so.
Director-General Mark Thompson said that pay for managers would be frozen and bonuses scrapped in a clampdown on costs.
Almost £500,000 has been paid in just two years to senior managers - although the BBC said they will stop making the payments when contracts expire.
Alan Yentob defends Andrew Marr’s £600,000 salary
Alan Yentob, the BBC's creative director, defends Andrew Marr and Huw Edwards from Tom Bradby's attack on their salaries.
Andrew Marr and Huw Edwards have both been keeping their heads down at the BBC after their ITV rival Tom Bradby named and shamed them in his spirited tirade against the corporation for paying its star names what he sees as unreaslistic salaries.
Alan Yentob, the BBC’s creative director who is best known claim to fame is his £6.3 million pension pot, has, however, been willing to defend his colleagues. “I think you’ll find that whenever someone is on a salary that is substantially higher than others, there are always those who grumble and complain,” says Yentob over a glass of champagne at the launch of Condé Nast Worldwide News at Vogue House in Hanover Square.
With that in mind, read this one:
Reverse BBC World Service cuts, senior Tory tells Hague
The row over the future funding of the BBC World Service intensified yesterday, when it emerged that a senior Tory MP has written to the Foreign Secretary, William Hague, asking him to reconsider the cuts that he has made to the network’s budget.
Andrew Tyrie MP, who chairs the influential House of Commons Treasury Select Committee, said in a letter to Mr Hague that “I find the case for the cuts in the World Service budget difficult to justify”.
It is understood that Mr Tyrie is privately supported by senior MPs from across the politicial spectrum, including ministers.
For whose benefit should cuts to the World Service be reversed?
Has this 'senior Tory' really considered what the output of the BBC really is? He was elected to serve the people of this country, who have been hit by a overspend bill higher than that of any on previous history. What we see is it hasn't affected salaries or bonuses of the BBC hierarchy, who remain unaffected by it.
This senior Tory who thinks his plea makes him appear caring and concerned for the human beings on this planet should be kicked out of office immediately. We can see just how the BBC have affected the public in this country, if the moron had any judgement and intelligence and exercised it, he would be for cutting the BBC altogether.