Bennett is Head of Vision, which is another way of saying she oversees the other executives who oversee television and the BBC’s internet output, for which she is rewarded with a salary package of £536,000.
She is one of the 47 BBC executives who is paid more than the £197,000 earned a year by the British Prime Minister.
“She was standing surrounded by a bunch of her acolytes as she held forth. They weren’t quite bowing in her presence but they were certainly fawning over her. It was ridiculous. And I thought, what does she actually do for the BBC? What is the point of her?”…There is an institutional terror of talking publicly about the fears that have dominated the conscious hours of everyone who works there…
“Where on earth are these dozens of executives on more that £200,000 supposed to be going?,” asks one BBC reporter. “They are literally unemployable outside the BBC.”…
Vine and Jeremy Paxman are said by BBC colleagues to be locked into an ultra-competitive contest about their respective salaries…
One veteran BBC presenter, a household name who does not want to be identified, says the central problem with the corporation now is its size. “We have become so big, so dominant, that there’s nothing institutional left for us to aim at,” he says…
One of the oddest things about talking to BBC people is that they will spend half an hour sounding off about the horrors of the institution, of its bureaucratic culture, of the shameful way its senior executives reward themselves ludicrous amounts of public money.
And then those journalists will say: “I hope you’re not writing a Right-wing newspaper attack on the BBC.”…An on-air reporter says it is the second-rate programme-making staff who get shunted up the management ladder.
“It’s insane,” he says. “We have one of the largest media organisations in the world run by jobbing journalists who couldn’t hack it.
“In any private organisation they would eventually be fired, but in the BBC they just keep on climbing up the ladder.”…“The warning here is Gorbachev. Once you start trying to reform an organisation such as the BBC, it collapses, just like the old Soviet Union,” says one well-known presenter. “Who, as director-general, is going to say, let’s make this place smaller, let’s reduce all the salaries, including mine?”
“just like the old Soviet Union”. Heh.
Well i have a solution.
1 wall
20 thousand wooden posts
Some willing riflemen (I’d be up for it)
Some cigarettes
Oh and after we’ve done the BBC we can do Westminster and then the Police and then local Government.
The unnamed presenter has it wrong. There is something “institutional” to aim at, and they’ve been using their size and position to that end: Social Engineering.
The article indicts one part of the BBC: its self-serving top management, its exorbitant top salaries, and expenses;, its disdain for British licencepayers; no wonder it grates when BBC interviewers put on a faux voice of outrage over MPs’ expenses.
The seond part of the indictment of the BBC (reflected on B-BBC site), includes the BBC’s political bias FOR e.g. Labour, the EU, mass immigration and ‘multiculturalism’; and AGAINST e.g. the Tories, against advocates of national sovereignty, against immigration limits, against a block on the Islamization of Britain and the West.
What a shock. BBC 6PM news, 4 minutes given over to expenses and the BBC try to make out that Cameron’s need to explain further a £250 mortgage claim is no different to Brown’s 13 thousand in cleaning, cleaning bloody what?
Then the BBC gives 15 seconds to the Damien Green story, 15 seconds!!!!!! no reporting, no interview with Cameron, nothing. Remember the fuss the BBC made over Green and how he was betraying the nation?
The BBC is a joke.
Test … Whew! What a palaver to post, and then it doesn’t automatically put your name either. Hope there’s a real need for this!
Hippiepooter
Nothing says ‘unbiased reporting of the facts’ like an organisation where people use ‘right-wing’ as an epithet
Martin, you’d be up for shooting a lot of overpaid BBC hacks would you if someone gave you a rifle? The same man who won’t stop paying his licence fe for fear of arrest.