Post by Teddy Bear on Jul 8, 2013 20:53:47 GMT
The BBC like to cover up their purposeful and insidious actions as an innocent 'accident'. Like they were trying to do the right thing but somehow their innate goodness made it no go according to the charter.
I know this is conscious attempt to bullshit those who are taken in by it. Anybody who's monitored them, even for a little while will quickly see how this tactic is used again and again, while they continue their chosen agenda.
Peter McKay picks up on recent goings on there.
Every time I see the stupid face and posture of Tony Hall he reminds me of some puppet. Almost like if I look long enough I'll see the strings attached to his body.
Anybody else think his grin is as fake as he is?
I know this is conscious attempt to bullshit those who are taken in by it. Anybody who's monitored them, even for a little while will quickly see how this tactic is used again and again, while they continue their chosen agenda.
Peter McKay picks up on recent goings on there.
Forget MPs' pay, BBC fat cats are the real scandal
By PETER MCKAY
We are invited to fulminate again this week when the proposal to raise the salaries of MPs by £10,000 to £75,000 is made official.
But why is an ex-Labour MP, James Purnell, worth four times more, £295,000, to the BBC?
A former Culture Secretary, Purnell was chosen by recycled BBC Director General Tony Hall as director of ‘strategy and digital’.
No one else was considered by Hall for this non-job
Why Purnell? We are not told. Why £295,000? The same applies.
The decision that MPs should have their salaries raised by £10,000 is made by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority chaired by Sir Ian Kennedy.
It’s a drop in the public-spending ocean, but the three main party leaders have vowed to oppose the raise while public sector pay is capped and others are seeing hours and wages reduced.
Isn’t the BBC in the public sector, too? Not when it comes to fixing appointments and salaries, it seems.
Hall himself was anointed by a friend, BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, on a £450,000 salary — to which is added the £82,000 pension from his previous BBC service, when he had been considered, but rejected, as a candidate for director-general.
While we waxed indignant (rightly) about MPs over-charging on their expenses, some £60 million has been dished out by BBC directors to departing colleagues over the past eight years. A former BBC deputy director general, Mark Byford, retired with a £949,000 pay-off.
Our new snout in the BBC trough, James Purnell, appeared on Newsnight last week to smilingly assure us that mistakes were made in the past but everything was on the straight and narrow now.
Really?
Mentioned in the great expenses dossier as having claimed £247 for fridge magnets, Purnell, now 43, resigned his seat in 2009, having apparently figured out Labour was facing a spell in Opposition.
His entire political career, beginning in 2001, lasted less than 10 years but, four years in, he was on the ministerial ladder and entered the Cabinet in 2007 as its youngest member.
Faced with stormy weather, however, he quit. Happily he had allies at the BBC, who hauled him aboard a far better gravy train.
MPs of Purnell’s kind do not deserve high salaries. But I think that the majority are in politics with the intention of doing good. So, paying them a quarter of what a BBC director makes is probably justified.
Purnell didn’t have to persuade the voters to renew his £65,000 job. He was invited aboard the BBC by his pal, Tony Hall, for four times more, plus perks.
A handful of people — most of them freelances — create the magic broadcasting moments we treasure that justify the BBC. They are assisted by modestly rewarded professionals no one will ever hear about, except at awards ceremonies. On their backs sit fatcat directors and their subordinates, people like James Purnell.
Let’s save our indignation for them, not kicked-about MPs.
By PETER MCKAY
We are invited to fulminate again this week when the proposal to raise the salaries of MPs by £10,000 to £75,000 is made official.
But why is an ex-Labour MP, James Purnell, worth four times more, £295,000, to the BBC?
A former Culture Secretary, Purnell was chosen by recycled BBC Director General Tony Hall as director of ‘strategy and digital’.
No one else was considered by Hall for this non-job
Why Purnell? We are not told. Why £295,000? The same applies.
The decision that MPs should have their salaries raised by £10,000 is made by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority chaired by Sir Ian Kennedy.
It’s a drop in the public-spending ocean, but the three main party leaders have vowed to oppose the raise while public sector pay is capped and others are seeing hours and wages reduced.
Isn’t the BBC in the public sector, too? Not when it comes to fixing appointments and salaries, it seems.
Hall himself was anointed by a friend, BBC Trust chairman Lord Patten, on a £450,000 salary — to which is added the £82,000 pension from his previous BBC service, when he had been considered, but rejected, as a candidate for director-general.
While we waxed indignant (rightly) about MPs over-charging on their expenses, some £60 million has been dished out by BBC directors to departing colleagues over the past eight years. A former BBC deputy director general, Mark Byford, retired with a £949,000 pay-off.
Our new snout in the BBC trough, James Purnell, appeared on Newsnight last week to smilingly assure us that mistakes were made in the past but everything was on the straight and narrow now.
Really?
Mentioned in the great expenses dossier as having claimed £247 for fridge magnets, Purnell, now 43, resigned his seat in 2009, having apparently figured out Labour was facing a spell in Opposition.
His entire political career, beginning in 2001, lasted less than 10 years but, four years in, he was on the ministerial ladder and entered the Cabinet in 2007 as its youngest member.
Faced with stormy weather, however, he quit. Happily he had allies at the BBC, who hauled him aboard a far better gravy train.
MPs of Purnell’s kind do not deserve high salaries. But I think that the majority are in politics with the intention of doing good. So, paying them a quarter of what a BBC director makes is probably justified.
Purnell didn’t have to persuade the voters to renew his £65,000 job. He was invited aboard the BBC by his pal, Tony Hall, for four times more, plus perks.
A handful of people — most of them freelances — create the magic broadcasting moments we treasure that justify the BBC. They are assisted by modestly rewarded professionals no one will ever hear about, except at awards ceremonies. On their backs sit fatcat directors and their subordinates, people like James Purnell.
Let’s save our indignation for them, not kicked-about MPs.
Every time I see the stupid face and posture of Tony Hall he reminds me of some puppet. Almost like if I look long enough I'll see the strings attached to his body.
Anybody else think his grin is as fake as he is?
