Ever wondered why the BBC seemed so keen to take down Rupert Murdoch and News International? Just part of the License Fund bargaining ploy…….
NUJ general secretary Michelle Stanistreet said:
“The upshot of the Leveson revelations of the Murdoch influence and stranglehold on the UK’s political process is a desperate need for a re-evaluation of the BBC licence deal. This was made behind closed doors and under what we know to be Murdoch-driven pressure.”
The NUJ is campaigning against the 20 per cent cuts to the BBC which it claims are a result of the secret deal between Mark Thompson, the out-going director general, and Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, to freeze the BBC licence until 2017.
However perhaps we shouldn’t believe all we heard…never mind all the truth that we didn’t hear from Brown and Co..at the Leveson Inquiry…
Simon Kelner in the Guardian:
“Rarely in the field of public inquisition has there been such a knowledge gap between the investigators and the investigated. The Leveson inquiry has devoted huge amounts of time – and public money – to establish facts that were obvious to anyone with a rudimentary understanding of the way newspapers work.”
If the BBC was run like a efficent private company not a tax funded spend every penny we can they wouldn’t need to make 20% cuts. Other TV channels/companies send 1 tv crew to news or events but the IBBC usually sends two or three.
And thinks we’re all bloody obsessed with Egypt (AGAIN!!), Syria, the ‘Arab Spring’, etc, when actually WE’RE NOT.
“25% cuts” are of course just a freeze in spending coursed by a 5 year freeze in the licence fee.
And they are cumulative, not a projection of 25% PER YEAR real cuts at the end of 5 years.
Thus a freeze in spending, whilst inflation is 3.5% is deemed a 3.5% ” cut in the first year.
A second year freeze is deemed as a 3.5% cut accumulating to 7% BUT adding the 3.5% cut from the first year, to total 10.5%.
Thus just 3 years of pay freezes can be described as “21% cuts”
Its all double-think Bolixs from the coalition to keep both parties happy.
Yes, Obamanomics in action.
I’ve just tried it myself: I planned to spend £1,000,021.40 tomorrow, then decided I’d only spend £21.40… Et voila! I saved a million pounds!
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thus BBC staff being given pay rises of 1% ( the national average) or 2.5% below inflation, can be described as 25% cuts over 5 years.
ah yes the old BBC lie,
‘we’re all in this together’.
Remember: they’re not biased, it’s just a coincidence that all their most fanatical supporters are people who think the CIA planned 9-11 so the Jews could invade the Amazon and steal their pandas.
🙂
I’m sure David Icke has that one covered.
Why will the leftist BBC not do the one thing which will guarantee its survival intact ? ( devise a strategy to reduce bias, go back to quality, make itself respected & even loved again, dump the non stop ranting on gender and ethnic issues , make an Obama joke, tell us about immigrant crime levels … )
I point this out to them frequently. But they are irredeemable.
I thought of a really programme idea give polly toynbee a one hour show once a week to rant all her self-loathing rubbish. Should be a comedy classic.
Graham Norton has a chair with a lever which tilts the chair backwards and ejects the incumbent when they have become sufficiently annoying or whining. This has collossal audience potential. Imagine the text votes coming in to eject Polly Toynbee. I’d happily pay a license fee for that, instead of listening to lame Socialist Worker-inspired jokes from Jeremy Hardy.
The bBC is potentially a massive success. It just needs to sever itself from the clinging fingertips of the liberal left. The right replacement to Thompson could do it. But they will appoint more of the same. Real competition is much too frightening to everyone in the establishment that is the Government / State Broadcaster relationship, Labour and Tory alike.
The 25% cuts figure is a key part of BBC propaganda designed to hide the real reason for the redundancies and programming reductions which is the £1b they agreed this year to go from the licence fee to the BBC Pension Scheme.
You heard it here first.
Yep, It’s a pretty safe bet that no matter how crap your own pension scheme may be, you are at least almost certainly contributing to a superb BBC scheme for it’s own Staff members. Nice to know, isn’t it ?