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As BBC executives fall on their swords for rigging such world historical events as the naming of the Blue Peter cat, I am reminded of a story told me by an ex-minister concerning this programme. It held a competition of a creative nature of which the minister was a judge. He chose an entry that turned out to have been from a child at a fee-paying prep school as the winner, on the quite reasonable grounds that it was by far the best. The powers-that-were threw up their hands in horror, saying that such a privileged child could not possibly get the prize, so it went to someone from a much more impoverished postcode. It is nice to know that, since few at the BBC have got anywhere by merit, they wish to apply the same standards to others.
Thank you to Biased BBC reader Lurker in a Burqua for the link.
I see Alan Yentob has escaped censure for his faked interview.
http://media.guardian.co.uk/bbc/story/0,,2163919,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
The BBC has admitted that Alan Yentob, the corporation’s creative director, has performed “noddy shots” on interviews that he did not personally conduct for his arts series Imagine.
More to the point why didn’t the ex-minster kick up a fuss about this behaviour by the BBC which now confirms that they have been getting away with this sort of dodgy behaviour for years! Wonder how much money they’ve screwed out of the voting public on top of the licence fee then?
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BBC ‘journos’ wishing to follow this simple method of notifying changes unlike the current stealth method are welcome to use it…..
Gosh. I wonder what sort of Blue Peter competition would be judged by a Government Minister?
Perhaps it was one to design the new logo for the Labour or Conservative Party! Have a guess which one!
Who was the ex-Minister? Can that be revealed, it would help the story.
Heffer runs off at the mouth too often for my taste. His attack on the PCSO’s who ‘failed’ to help that drowing/drowned boy in the gravel pit shows that he has no investigative ability. He follows the BBC line that the two coppers’s stood there and watched the kid drown …
Pity the truth was somewhat different.
They won’t be happy until everyone is underprivileged.
The politicians on QT always wear it as a badge of honour if they represent an underprivileged constituency.