I bet you feel all warm and content at the news how the BBC spends some of the many millions it takes from you…
The BBC has paid £1.2 million in fees in the last year to companies owned by close
relatives of senior executives in new allegations of cronyism.
The lion’s share was taken by Samir Shah, a non executive director of the
corporation, whose production company Juniper Communications was paid £715,000 last year.Mr Shah, who owns 70 per cent of Juniper, is paid £35,000 as a member
of the BBC executive board which oversees the corporation’s management and
directs its editorial output. The payments to Juniper will also further
enrich the family of Jana Bennett, the BBC head of Vision, who is tipped to be
the first woman director general of the corporation. Miss Bennett’s husband
Richard Clemmow owns 10 per cent of Juniper. Last year Miss Bennett was paid
£535,000 by the BBC.
Isn’it it NICE to see how wisely your money is spent? All part of that very special relationship the BBC has with us.
Nepotism is the key to employment in British tv and film. Talent will get you nowhere. What the BBC do is what most production companies do in the uk. Friends of family and uni grads are prioritized over anyone with ability and a showreel. Why do you think British film is such a shitfest. Because just like al beeb it's crammed full of sponging leftists with more politics than imagination.
Well why isnt this surprising. They need to get their left-wing PC message across dont they. In any case, part of the BBC's remit from no. 10 is to ensure it stays 'on message'. Therefore, the BBC has to ensure that any film companies they use to produce anything on film need to adhere to the socialist agenda and are too, 'on message'.
F8cks sake…how do I get in on the act?
Mailman
Talking about cronyism, there is this from an article in the Mail about Goldman Sachs:
Extract: The bank's former chief economist and partner Gavyn Davies, who is married to Gordon Brown's special adviser Sue Nye, was made chairman of the BBC. His successor as chief economist at Goldman, the late David Walton, was handed a seat on the Bank of England's interest-rate setting Monetary Policy Committee.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-1200481/ALEX-BRUMMER-As-Goldman-Sachs-posts-huge-profits-economic-crisis-question-Did-cause-problems-place.html#ixzz0LdsqLlRL
Yet again you denounce the obvious in favour of opinion. Yes, how dare the BBC employ those most qualified for the job!
…Rant, rant, juvenille sarcasm, foam, foam, there are no windows in this room…
Please somebody help me. I haven't had sex since I was sixteen and that was with a frozen joint of beef.
If I could just get laid I'd leave you all alone. Please help!
There must be some guy out there interested in me. Any similar pitiful middle aged failure who needs to constantly change user names and IP addresses to post here because he's so desperate to be heard.
Have you read my blog? This is what I do on my lonely weekend nights. Please don't tell my Nan.
Opinionated More Than Educated
Why don't you get some help. Your postings are becoming demented.
OMTE,
How old was the piece of beef?
John Horne Tooke,
You will regret those comments. Wait 'til you see what I post on my blog about you. I would do it now but Nan is calling down that I have to switch the lights off and help change her colostomy before bed.
OMTE, if you are insinuating the beef was under age then you are also in for it. You are about to become a target of my incisive wit, posted on my incendiary blog, read by Nan and her sister Beatrice.
The best and worst thing that ever happened to this country was the arrival of the "Asians". They are brilliant these people. Our shops would still be open only 35 hours a week but for them. They are so business-minded they would sell their own grandmothers for soap, yet their spirit of enterprise is one of our greatest gifts, compared with the M*sl*m sh*te who try to blow us up while claiming benefit.
You just have watch their greasy-pole climbing antics. Shriti Vardera? They are on every quango going, expoiting useless NuLabs obsession with "inclusiveness". 3%of the population? – we need you of you on everything. Count them on the BBC Trust. I've never before seen a race so adept at playing the race-card to their own advantage, very smart.
OMTE
How is the gender reassignment going,made your mind up what to be?
Opiated More Than Educated is a troll who is either in need of treatment or convinced his irrelevant asides are devastatingly funny.
David please ban him. I am beginning to develope Carpel Tunnel Syndrome from scrolling past him.
Guys, dont feed the troll.
Mailman
OT, but I thought readers might like to know about this little gem:
Palestinians in pastry record bid
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8157440.stm
Note the somewhat uncontextualized comments in the final paragraph.
it's bad enough having to wade through the crap vomited out on the state sponsored Propaganda network day after day…..but having to read the rantings of a deranged Beeboid lunatic apologist is beyond a joke on this blog
ban the wasting idiot
I don't think the latest Opinionated is the real hillhunt. More likely a spoof.
Try clicking on the link from his user name.
awww come on now guys-Opinonated does clearly have experience, qualifications and probably no little amount of skills….
it's just a shame that we have no vacancies for public shithouse cleaners at the moment
Wel spotted, Anonymous 9:22 AM, July 19, 2009
"Samir Shah"
Sounds like an affirmative action appointment.