So, I am sure you heard the news that Jonathan Ross is to quit the BBC. Good. However in a way it doesn’t matter since there are MANY more spongers in the BBC feeding off our £3.5bn. So, one down but many more to go!
WOSSY IS OFF!
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In most businesses this whole episode costing a reported £18 million over three years, for little return, would be called a fiasco. Heads would role. Perhaps not in the BBC but then those responsible have already received their bonuses.
What happened to Ross’s agreement to take a pay cut? I guess now Graham Norton becomes top sleaze on BBC Friday nights. And Ross will make even more money in the US.
Now the BBC can reroute some of that license fee cash to more important things, like Warmism and US domestic politics.
Personally, I have had more enjoyment from Wossy than anything else on the BBC. I don’t begrudge £6m a yeat for his three shows plus other appearances. BTW this money was for the cost of the whole shows not just his paycheque.
Unfortunately, it is a bit late in the day to be getting rid of him; they have already made him into a multi-millionaire sleaze-bag. That is to say that we have, you and I. Nice of us. Nice thought that, eh? The only reason they are getting rid now – after reportedly offering him one third of his current pay – is politics. Totally cynical, self-serving move by the BBC.
That he ever got so much in the first place is purely the result of the BBC having far too much money handed to them on a plate. One tenth of his current pay would be far too much to pay for the gross, self-regarding sleazy bore. I suppose they will look for some other gross, boring egotistical, motormouth now; oh, wait; they already have one (Graham Norton).
Good widdence!
Now we find out how much the **** is worth in the real world. Lets see if he actually has the talent to merit his millions. I somehow doubt they will be queuing up to hand him wheel barrow loads of cash.
The 6 O’clock news was full of “members of the public” saying how sad they are to see him go.
They must have waited a long time to find 4 or 5 people to say that as the HYS readers recommended tells a completely different story.
How can the BBC be so out of touch?
A protected income I suppose.
A article about Ross, highlighting the monster of ego and foulness that he became under the fawning and indulgence of the BBC:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241554/Jonathan-Ross-Talented-yes-threw-away.html
“Mark Thompson sparks new BBC row with county council comment”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2010/jan/08/mark-thompson-row-bbc-council
There you have the mindset as expressed by some Beeboid insider who is unaware that a government department is just what the BBC is like. Also unaware that the business they are in is public service.
“The BBC is not an arm of the civil service. We are in showbusiness. We are not aware of any civil servants who would make good channel controllers.”
Ha ha… you have to laugh. The average civil servant would have a bit more nous than what the top of the BBC is spouting about its excessive pay – Channel 4 execs get more than I do…boo hoo, woe is me! – and what it is producing through the mouthpiece of the likes of Ross and Brand. Channel controllers! Oh, yes, they have such good taste and such good judgement, objectivity, balance and lack of any major bias. Such value for money too! They are the best in the world, the best I tell you. It must be true.