Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 8, 2013 22:54:28 GMT
Listening to the BBC today, they were discussing the NHS scandal, and that there must have been many within the NHS who knew what was going on and chose to look the other way. The BBC discusses this in a very hypocritical and sanctimonious manner, especially considering their own Savile scandal.
One has to wonder at our own society that not only has failed to react to the BBC complicity over all aspects related to Savile, but even allowed nearly everybody involved to keep jobs within the corporation, if not their old positions. Even Entwistle who 'left' was still given a massive payoff, despite his pure incompetence.
Case in point here is Helen Boaden, head of news, who receives a salary of £340,000, and was found to be 'wanting' in her handling of the Savile affair, not to mention that through the BBC grapevine she almost certainly was aware of what Savile was doing.
But so far she has kept her job. When one thinks of what happened with News International and News of the World, not to mention the arrests that followed the far less serious hacking scandal, one can only be amazed at how stupid and idle our society has become. Content to let this insidious evil corporation continue with business as usual.
Despite talk that Boaden may be moved to radio, at a slightly lower salary, it really doesn't go far enough. Heads should roll, and that's just for starters.
One has to wonder at our own society that not only has failed to react to the BBC complicity over all aspects related to Savile, but even allowed nearly everybody involved to keep jobs within the corporation, if not their old positions. Even Entwistle who 'left' was still given a massive payoff, despite his pure incompetence.
Case in point here is Helen Boaden, head of news, who receives a salary of £340,000, and was found to be 'wanting' in her handling of the Savile affair, not to mention that through the BBC grapevine she almost certainly was aware of what Savile was doing.
But so far she has kept her job. When one thinks of what happened with News International and News of the World, not to mention the arrests that followed the far less serious hacking scandal, one can only be amazed at how stupid and idle our society has become. Content to let this insidious evil corporation continue with business as usual.
Despite talk that Boaden may be moved to radio, at a slightly lower salary, it really doesn't go far enough. Heads should roll, and that's just for starters.
Helen Boaden offered BBC radio job
Helen Boaden, the BBC director of news who was criticised for her handling of the Jimmy Savile debacle, has been offered the job of running radio instead.
Ms Boaden, who was once tipped to lead the BBC herself, was severely damaged by the Jimmy Savile row which shook the corporation last year.
Although the position as the BBC’s head of audio and music is a heavyweight one, sources claimed that the move was the BBC equivalent of “being fired”.
Ms Boaden has already turned the job down in the past, but is being lined up for it in any case under a plan drawn up by Lord Hall, the corporation’s incoming Director General.
Lord Hall addressed a group of senior executives, including Ms Boaden, about the plan, ahead of his arrival in April.
Ms Boaden, who was once tipped to lead the BBC herself, was severely damaged by the Jimmy Savile row which shook the corporation last year.
Nick Pollard’s report into the BBC’s handling of the issue criticised her for the “casual” way in which she told the former director-general, George Entwistle, that a Newsnight investigation into Savile’s child abuse might clash with planned tribute programmes to the deceased DJ.
“What happened was a blow to her authority,” said one BBC news journalist, who regarded the move to radio as a demotion. “It would have made it very difficult for her to command respect because of what happened, so it makes sense organisationally for her to move.”
Ms Boaden joined the BBC in 1983 and held roles as the controller of Radio 4 and head of current affairs before she was named director of BBC News nearly a decade ago. If she accepts the radio job as expected, potential contenders to head up the corporation’s news could include Peter Horrocks, her former deputy who is now in charge of the BBC World Service, and Kevin Bakhurst, the former controller of BBC News who now heads up news and current affairs at Irish broadcaster RTL.
At the moment, Ms Boaden is on a salary of £340,000, while the BBC’s last radio chief, acting Director General Tim Davie, earned £335,000 a year in the same position, excluding pension contributions. However, the biggest wrench for Ms Boaden is not likely to be money, so much as the move away from news, where she has spent most of her career.
Even so, many observers will be outraged that she and other executives criticised in the Pollard report have kept their jobs at all.
Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight who took the decision to axe a film that would have exposed Savile’s child abuse, stepped aside following the row and is due to move to another job within the BBC.
The corporation declined to comment.
Helen Boaden, the BBC director of news who was criticised for her handling of the Jimmy Savile debacle, has been offered the job of running radio instead.
Ms Boaden, who was once tipped to lead the BBC herself, was severely damaged by the Jimmy Savile row which shook the corporation last year.
Although the position as the BBC’s head of audio and music is a heavyweight one, sources claimed that the move was the BBC equivalent of “being fired”.
Ms Boaden has already turned the job down in the past, but is being lined up for it in any case under a plan drawn up by Lord Hall, the corporation’s incoming Director General.
Lord Hall addressed a group of senior executives, including Ms Boaden, about the plan, ahead of his arrival in April.
Ms Boaden, who was once tipped to lead the BBC herself, was severely damaged by the Jimmy Savile row which shook the corporation last year.
Nick Pollard’s report into the BBC’s handling of the issue criticised her for the “casual” way in which she told the former director-general, George Entwistle, that a Newsnight investigation into Savile’s child abuse might clash with planned tribute programmes to the deceased DJ.
“What happened was a blow to her authority,” said one BBC news journalist, who regarded the move to radio as a demotion. “It would have made it very difficult for her to command respect because of what happened, so it makes sense organisationally for her to move.”
Ms Boaden joined the BBC in 1983 and held roles as the controller of Radio 4 and head of current affairs before she was named director of BBC News nearly a decade ago. If she accepts the radio job as expected, potential contenders to head up the corporation’s news could include Peter Horrocks, her former deputy who is now in charge of the BBC World Service, and Kevin Bakhurst, the former controller of BBC News who now heads up news and current affairs at Irish broadcaster RTL.
At the moment, Ms Boaden is on a salary of £340,000, while the BBC’s last radio chief, acting Director General Tim Davie, earned £335,000 a year in the same position, excluding pension contributions. However, the biggest wrench for Ms Boaden is not likely to be money, so much as the move away from news, where she has spent most of her career.
Even so, many observers will be outraged that she and other executives criticised in the Pollard report have kept their jobs at all.
Peter Rippon, the editor of Newsnight who took the decision to axe a film that would have exposed Savile’s child abuse, stepped aside following the row and is due to move to another job within the BBC.
The corporation declined to comment.