Post by Teddy Bear on Jun 29, 2009 20:15:21 GMT
A good article from Amanda Platell in the Daily Mail that makes a valid point.
BBC expenses? It's the quality of shows that's truly offensive
Private jets, vintage champagne, luxury hotels, and as much as £1,137 on a single meal for a staff member: their snouts are so far in the trough that all you can see is their curly tails twitching.
No, not our greedy and corrupt MPs but sickeningly self-indulgent BBC executives who, it was revealed this week, claimed expenses totalling £350,000 in the past five years.
Small wonder they treated themselves to such largesse when their boss, BBC chief Mark Thompson, was also claiming for luxuries such as flying his entire family home from a holiday he cut short to deal with the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand debacle.
Debacle: Thompson flew his family home from a holiday he cut short to deal with the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal
Never mind that this was a crisis purely of his own making, having monstrously over-paid and over-indulged these infantile presenters in the first place. Why should we pay for Thompson's family to travel anywhere, when the man himself earns more than £640,000 a year, plus bonuses, from the public purse.
Such expenses excess might be marginally more forgivable if the BBC actually produced high-quality programmes we wanted to watch. Instead, the BBC management is obsessed by a coterie of camp or foul-mouthed presenters with minimal talent except for causing offence.
Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Chris Moyles, the wretched Little Britain 'stars' . . . the BBC seems determined to plumb ever-lower depths of vulgarity.
Yet as a survey of viewing habits this week showed, audiences are heartily sick of the swearing and smut. Almost half of all viewers agreed that standards had fallen on the Corporation's TV channels, with four in ten viewers saying they had seen something on the Beeb in the past year that should not have been broadcast.
The BBC Trust has now, at long last, proposed a curfew on foul language until after the 10pm watershed. Don't hold your breath that it will be implemented.
The BBC at its best is the finest broadcaster in the world. John Simpson's reporting from Iran has been magnificent. But those overpaid executives are endlessly siphoning off money from news, documentaries, drama and natural history - the things the BBC does best - to fund their peddlers of sleaze.
And, of course, to toast themselves with champagne, fine dining and flowers, all paid for by we licence payers.
Private jets, vintage champagne, luxury hotels, and as much as £1,137 on a single meal for a staff member: their snouts are so far in the trough that all you can see is their curly tails twitching.
No, not our greedy and corrupt MPs but sickeningly self-indulgent BBC executives who, it was revealed this week, claimed expenses totalling £350,000 in the past five years.
Small wonder they treated themselves to such largesse when their boss, BBC chief Mark Thompson, was also claiming for luxuries such as flying his entire family home from a holiday he cut short to deal with the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand debacle.
Debacle: Thompson flew his family home from a holiday he cut short to deal with the Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand scandal
Never mind that this was a crisis purely of his own making, having monstrously over-paid and over-indulged these infantile presenters in the first place. Why should we pay for Thompson's family to travel anywhere, when the man himself earns more than £640,000 a year, plus bonuses, from the public purse.
Such expenses excess might be marginally more forgivable if the BBC actually produced high-quality programmes we wanted to watch. Instead, the BBC management is obsessed by a coterie of camp or foul-mouthed presenters with minimal talent except for causing offence.
Jonathan Ross, Graham Norton, Chris Moyles, the wretched Little Britain 'stars' . . . the BBC seems determined to plumb ever-lower depths of vulgarity.
Yet as a survey of viewing habits this week showed, audiences are heartily sick of the swearing and smut. Almost half of all viewers agreed that standards had fallen on the Corporation's TV channels, with four in ten viewers saying they had seen something on the Beeb in the past year that should not have been broadcast.
The BBC Trust has now, at long last, proposed a curfew on foul language until after the 10pm watershed. Don't hold your breath that it will be implemented.
The BBC at its best is the finest broadcaster in the world. John Simpson's reporting from Iran has been magnificent. But those overpaid executives are endlessly siphoning off money from news, documentaries, drama and natural history - the things the BBC does best - to fund their peddlers of sleaze.
And, of course, to toast themselves with champagne, fine dining and flowers, all paid for by we licence payers.