Post by Teddy Bear on Feb 14, 2013 18:02:27 GMT
The pure arrogance and disdain of the BBC for its responsibilities knows no bounds. But so long as the British public raise no outcry, and are content to follow the manipulated route they are led down by the BBC, it can only get worse.
The BBC show that there is no amount of insidious and wasteful corruption they will not stoop to, and nobody appears to impose any kind of constraint or sanctions on them.
Consider the following:
Despite the continual accusation of already being left-wing biased, as also confirmed by the previous director general who noted it was a MASSIVE BIAS, not only have the BBC done nothing to address it, but they are now set to hire the previous Labour culture minister for a new role as 'director of strategy and digital'. The cost to the licence fee payer for his position is £295,000 per annum - over twice that of the Prime Minister.
Helen Boaden, one of the key players in the Savile debacle as head of news, is to move to head the corporation's radio networks.
She boasts that she has been the longest serving head of news, for 25 years. Responsible for more than 8,000 staff and was in charge of all of the broadcaster’s news and current affairs output, including Question Time, Panorama, the Today Programme and Newsnight.
Yet we are to believe she knew NOTHING about Savile - no rumours, no direct knowledge. Either way, it shows either incompetence or corruption.
Instead of heads rolling, they become heads of departments!
Contrast this with what followed in the hacking scandal, or the horsemeat scandal. Isn't what happened with Savile, and what he was permitted to do, and how his actions were covered up even after his death FAR WORSE?
The only difference is where the BBC chooses to focus, its brainwashed public can only oblige.
The BBC show that there is no amount of insidious and wasteful corruption they will not stoop to, and nobody appears to impose any kind of constraint or sanctions on them.
Consider the following:
Despite the continual accusation of already being left-wing biased, as also confirmed by the previous director general who noted it was a MASSIVE BIAS, not only have the BBC done nothing to address it, but they are now set to hire the previous Labour culture minister for a new role as 'director of strategy and digital'. The cost to the licence fee payer for his position is £295,000 per annum - over twice that of the Prime Minister.
Helen Boaden, one of the key players in the Savile debacle as head of news, is to move to head the corporation's radio networks.
She boasts that she has been the longest serving head of news, for 25 years. Responsible for more than 8,000 staff and was in charge of all of the broadcaster’s news and current affairs output, including Question Time, Panorama, the Today Programme and Newsnight.
Yet we are to believe she knew NOTHING about Savile - no rumours, no direct knowledge. Either way, it shows either incompetence or corruption.
Instead of heads rolling, they become heads of departments!
Contrast this with what followed in the hacking scandal, or the horsemeat scandal. Isn't what happened with Savile, and what he was permitted to do, and how his actions were covered up even after his death FAR WORSE?
The only difference is where the BBC chooses to focus, its brainwashed public can only oblige.
BBC News boss who presided over Jimmy Savile Newsnight scandal to head up corporation's radio network - as former Labour minister lands £295,000-a-year 'strategy' role
By Jill Reilly
Helen Boaden the BBC executive who was forced to 'step aside' in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal has landed a new senior role in the corporation.
Just months after she offered to resign, Ms Boaden who was in charge of BBC News when controversy erupted, has been appointed to head the corporation's radio networks.
It has also emerged today that former culture secretary James Purnell is to join the BBC in a major strategic role.
The appointments have been made by incoming director-general Tony Hall before he takes up his position in April.
Miss Boaden had been director of news at the BBC for eight-and-a-half years but had to step aside for a spell from November last year in the wake of the Savile investigations, along with her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
She was told it was impossible for her to stay in her £354,000-a-year role while a review into Newsnight's decision not to air an investigation into allegations of child abuse by Savile took place.
She returned to her job just before Christmas after the Pollard Review exonerated her of blame - Mr Mitchell's resignation was accepted by the BBC. at the same time.
Shew will become director of BBC Radio from April 15 - she has previously been the controller of Radio 4, prior to taking up her news role in September 2004.
Miss Boaden is understood to have previously been offered the audio and music job by the then director general George Entwistle, who left in November after just 54 days in the job, but turned it down.
Mr Purnell will return to the BBC, where he had been head of corporate planning in the 1990s before entering frontline politics as a Labour MP.
After stepping back from politics, he became a producer and has been working at production firm Rare Day.
Mr Purnell, who serves on the board of the British Film Institute and the Royal National Theatre, has been appointed as director of strategy and digital.
His new role may be used as fuel by those who regularly complain about a left-wing bias at the corporation.
He said: 'I'm really excited to be coming back to the BBC to work on its future with such a great team. Over the last couple of years, producing and developing programmes has rekindled my passion for the career I had before politics. I feel very lucky to have the chance to return to the BBC at such an important time.' Together: Jimmy Savile and Helen Boaden are pictured at the Savoy Hotel in London in December 2006
Mr Hall said of his appointments to the senior management team: 'I am building a senior team that will define the BBC and public service broadcasting for the next decade.
'It will be a team that is made up of outstanding talent from outside the BBC combined with the best people from within.
'There will be more changes over the coming months and there is a lot of hard work ahead but today's appointments are the first steps in delivering that vision.'
There will also be changes to the role which acting director-general Tim Davie will take on in April when Mr Hall arrives.
Mr Hall was appointed director-general following the resignation of George Entwistle, after just 54 days in the job.
Mr Entwistle quit, saying that as editor-in chief he had to take 'ultimate responsibility' for a Newsnight investigation that had led to the former Conservative Party treasurer, Lord McAlpine, being wrongly accused of child abuse.
Mr Davie - formerly the director of BBC audio and music - will become CEO of the corporation's commercial arm BBC Worldwide, and this role is being expanded to include 'a more strategic global perspective'.
This will involve developing the BBC's international brand and editorial strategy.
Mr Davie said: 'I am very pleased to take on the important task of building the BBC brand globally and leading a growing, creative BBC Worldwide.'
Ms Boaden said: 'It is a huge pleasure to be returning to my first love of radio. I look forward to working with our outstanding controllers and some of the most creative on and off air talent in the BBC.
'The British public love BBC Radio and I intend to cherish and champion it.'
BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music controller Bob Shennan had been an early favourite for the role, which was previously held by Tim Davie.
As director of news, Miss Boaden was responsible for more than 8,000 staff and was in charge of all of the broadcaster’s news and current affairs output, including Question Time, Panorama, the Today Programme and Newsnight.
Crisis: The BBC needs a radical overhaul following the resignation of its chief executive in wake of a scandal over a botched report on child sex-abuse allegations, Lord Patten said
Ms Boaden said: 'It is a huge pleasure to be returning to my first love of radio. I look forward to working with our outstanding controllers and some of the most creative on and off air talent in the BBC'
It is known that she told Mr Entwistle – then running BBC TV – at an awards lunch last year that Newsnight was planning to run a report about claims that Savile abused young girls, which could affect Mr Entwistle’s plans for Christmas shows paying tribute to the presenter.
In a memo to news staff, Ms Boaden said that her move was a 'bittersweet moment', as she listed some of the notable moments in output during her tenure in news.
They included coverage of the Asian tsunami, the banking crisis, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Uprising, the edition of Question Time featuring BNP leader Nick Griffin and the hunt for gunman Raoul Moat, as well as the Olympic Torch relay.
She wrote: 'I confess that it is a bittersweet moment for me. Everyone knows that I love radio and always have. So naturally I genuinely relish returning to this cherished and uniquely creative part of the BBC, especially under a new DG (director-general) who is passionate about its importance.
'But leaving News and all of you is undoubtedly a wrench. I believe I may be the longest serving Head of News over the past 25 years.'
She added: 'It has been a huge privilege and an absolute pleasure to lead you.'
Sources at Newsnight have also suggested that she warned the programme’s then editor, Peter Rippon – who has also since stepped aside – that he needed to be sure of his facts before screening any claims that Savile was a criminal.
She resumed her role as director of BBC News in December after further blunders - caused by a change in the chain of command in news while an inquiry was ongoing - led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly identified as being involved in a sexual abuse scandal.
She began at the corporation almost 30 years ago, working as a news producer at BBC Radio Leeds before going on to work as a reporter and then editor of Radio 4’s File on 4, and as a presenter on Woman’s Hour.
She took responsibility for business programmes on the station in 1997 and was made station controller three years later.
Fiercely defensive of the station’s ‘intelligent’ programming that ‘feeds the mind’ she helped it to reach audiences of 10million for the first time.
Despite running Radio 4 during another BBC crisis – when an infamous Today programme report sparked the Hutton Inquiry – she escaped censure because the show is governed by the BBC News division.
In the wake of the scandal Miss Boaden was promoted to become said division’s first female director in 2004.
Last year she applied to become director general but was beaten by Mr Entwistle.
It is understood she was offered a senior role in radio instead, but turned it down.
Ms Boaden said Fran Unsworth would become acting director of news from March 19.
She took that position during the period in which Ms Boaden stepped aside.
- Boaden was BBC News executive when Jimmy Savile controversy erupted
- Temporarily stepped aside as Savile saga emerged and offered to resign
- Former culture secretary James Purnell to join the BBC
- Understood to have been offered the job previously by George Entwistle
By Jill Reilly
Helen Boaden the BBC executive who was forced to 'step aside' in the wake of the Jimmy Savile scandal has landed a new senior role in the corporation.
Just months after she offered to resign, Ms Boaden who was in charge of BBC News when controversy erupted, has been appointed to head the corporation's radio networks.
It has also emerged today that former culture secretary James Purnell is to join the BBC in a major strategic role.
The appointments have been made by incoming director-general Tony Hall before he takes up his position in April.
Miss Boaden had been director of news at the BBC for eight-and-a-half years but had to step aside for a spell from November last year in the wake of the Savile investigations, along with her deputy Stephen Mitchell.
She was told it was impossible for her to stay in her £354,000-a-year role while a review into Newsnight's decision not to air an investigation into allegations of child abuse by Savile took place.
She returned to her job just before Christmas after the Pollard Review exonerated her of blame - Mr Mitchell's resignation was accepted by the BBC. at the same time.
Shew will become director of BBC Radio from April 15 - she has previously been the controller of Radio 4, prior to taking up her news role in September 2004.
Miss Boaden is understood to have previously been offered the audio and music job by the then director general George Entwistle, who left in November after just 54 days in the job, but turned it down.
Mr Purnell will return to the BBC, where he had been head of corporate planning in the 1990s before entering frontline politics as a Labour MP.
After stepping back from politics, he became a producer and has been working at production firm Rare Day.
Mr Purnell, who serves on the board of the British Film Institute and the Royal National Theatre, has been appointed as director of strategy and digital.
His new role may be used as fuel by those who regularly complain about a left-wing bias at the corporation.
He said: 'I'm really excited to be coming back to the BBC to work on its future with such a great team. Over the last couple of years, producing and developing programmes has rekindled my passion for the career I had before politics. I feel very lucky to have the chance to return to the BBC at such an important time.' Together: Jimmy Savile and Helen Boaden are pictured at the Savoy Hotel in London in December 2006
Mr Hall said of his appointments to the senior management team: 'I am building a senior team that will define the BBC and public service broadcasting for the next decade.
'It will be a team that is made up of outstanding talent from outside the BBC combined with the best people from within.
'There will be more changes over the coming months and there is a lot of hard work ahead but today's appointments are the first steps in delivering that vision.'
There will also be changes to the role which acting director-general Tim Davie will take on in April when Mr Hall arrives.
Mr Hall was appointed director-general following the resignation of George Entwistle, after just 54 days in the job.
Mr Entwistle quit, saying that as editor-in chief he had to take 'ultimate responsibility' for a Newsnight investigation that had led to the former Conservative Party treasurer, Lord McAlpine, being wrongly accused of child abuse.
Mr Davie - formerly the director of BBC audio and music - will become CEO of the corporation's commercial arm BBC Worldwide, and this role is being expanded to include 'a more strategic global perspective'.
This will involve developing the BBC's international brand and editorial strategy.
Mr Davie said: 'I am very pleased to take on the important task of building the BBC brand globally and leading a growing, creative BBC Worldwide.'
Ms Boaden said: 'It is a huge pleasure to be returning to my first love of radio. I look forward to working with our outstanding controllers and some of the most creative on and off air talent in the BBC.
'The British public love BBC Radio and I intend to cherish and champion it.'
BBC Radio 2 and 6 Music controller Bob Shennan had been an early favourite for the role, which was previously held by Tim Davie.
As director of news, Miss Boaden was responsible for more than 8,000 staff and was in charge of all of the broadcaster’s news and current affairs output, including Question Time, Panorama, the Today Programme and Newsnight.
Crisis: The BBC needs a radical overhaul following the resignation of its chief executive in wake of a scandal over a botched report on child sex-abuse allegations, Lord Patten said
Ms Boaden said: 'It is a huge pleasure to be returning to my first love of radio. I look forward to working with our outstanding controllers and some of the most creative on and off air talent in the BBC'
It is known that she told Mr Entwistle – then running BBC TV – at an awards lunch last year that Newsnight was planning to run a report about claims that Savile abused young girls, which could affect Mr Entwistle’s plans for Christmas shows paying tribute to the presenter.
In a memo to news staff, Ms Boaden said that her move was a 'bittersweet moment', as she listed some of the notable moments in output during her tenure in news.
They included coverage of the Asian tsunami, the banking crisis, the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Arab Uprising, the edition of Question Time featuring BNP leader Nick Griffin and the hunt for gunman Raoul Moat, as well as the Olympic Torch relay.
She wrote: 'I confess that it is a bittersweet moment for me. Everyone knows that I love radio and always have. So naturally I genuinely relish returning to this cherished and uniquely creative part of the BBC, especially under a new DG (director-general) who is passionate about its importance.
'But leaving News and all of you is undoubtedly a wrench. I believe I may be the longest serving Head of News over the past 25 years.'
She added: 'It has been a huge privilege and an absolute pleasure to lead you.'
Sources at Newsnight have also suggested that she warned the programme’s then editor, Peter Rippon – who has also since stepped aside – that he needed to be sure of his facts before screening any claims that Savile was a criminal.
She resumed her role as director of BBC News in December after further blunders - caused by a change in the chain of command in news while an inquiry was ongoing - led to Lord McAlpine being wrongly identified as being involved in a sexual abuse scandal.
She began at the corporation almost 30 years ago, working as a news producer at BBC Radio Leeds before going on to work as a reporter and then editor of Radio 4’s File on 4, and as a presenter on Woman’s Hour.
She took responsibility for business programmes on the station in 1997 and was made station controller three years later.
Fiercely defensive of the station’s ‘intelligent’ programming that ‘feeds the mind’ she helped it to reach audiences of 10million for the first time.
Despite running Radio 4 during another BBC crisis – when an infamous Today programme report sparked the Hutton Inquiry – she escaped censure because the show is governed by the BBC News division.
In the wake of the scandal Miss Boaden was promoted to become said division’s first female director in 2004.
Last year she applied to become director general but was beaten by Mr Entwistle.
It is understood she was offered a senior role in radio instead, but turned it down.
Ms Boaden said Fran Unsworth would become acting director of news from March 19.
She took that position during the period in which Ms Boaden stepped aside.
