Had to laugh at this!
The BBC will negotiate “tougher” contracts with new managers in future to avoid a repeat of the fiasco over George Entwistle’s £450,000 pay-off when he quit as director-general, Lord Patten has said.
Oh really? Meanwhile…
The appointment of a former Labour cabinet minister to a senior BBC job on a salary of almost £300,000 a year last night re-ignited concerns over the corporation’s links with the Left. James Purnell, who served as both Culture and Work and Pensions Secretary under Gordon Brown, has been handed the job as the corporation’s strategy chief.
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“The appointment of a former Labour cabinet minister to a senior BBC job on a salary of almost £300,000 a year last night re-ignited concerns over the corporation’s links with the Left. ”
anyone who fails to see this is either wilfully stupid or blind
or both
The position was created for him whilst he was already a member of the Labour Party.
And he’s Director of Strategy.
I used to think the idea that there is a long-term plan to turn Britain into a socialist state was ridiculous.
Not top, but a top comment:
‘Let’s put some perspective on the BBC.
It costs £3bn.
Prisons cost £1.8bn
Roads £2.8bn
Police and border control £9.6b
Less BBC and more prisons, better roads, better border controls anyone?’
It’s the right thing to do.
And, as far as I can ascertain, not only are the contracts still farcical, they seem to be packing out the bunker with more and more of them.
Do they know the writing is on the wall and are simply setting up the optimal bail-out scenario?
It strikes me that with their help, the BBC have decided that Labour will be back in power in 2015.
Who better to employ then, but a member of the BBC / Labour / Guardian family to assist with the Charter and licence fee settlements?
“Broadcaster and author has been selected to be the party’s candidate in the Eastleigh byelection in February”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2013/feb/12/john-ofarrell-labour-candidate-eastleigh-byelection
Guess which broadcaster and which party?
Tougher contracts: Does that mean that they will get more money or less money?
Impartiality: Does that mean that if you have never been a member of a political party, like myself. Then you would be regarded as too right-wing for the BBC?
Lets see how much wages they’ll be paying in future when they lose this…
http://www.globalresearch.ca/historic-court-case-against-the-bbcs-cover-up-of-911-evidence/5322983%5B/img%5D
Sorry the link doesn’t seem to be working.
The BBC is being taken to court, challenged strongly for its refusal to present to the British public the available scientific evidence which contradicts the official version of events of 9/11. This court case is based around a a Tony Rooke making a stand and refusing to pay his TV licence fee under Section 15 of The Terrorism Act 2000 Article 3 which states that it is offence to provide funds if there is a reasonable cause to suspect that those funds may be used for the purposes of terrorism. The BBC has withheld scientific evidence which clearly demonstrates that the official version of events of 9/11 is not possible and could not have been carried out in entirety by those who have been accused by our officials. In addition, the BBC has actively blocked and smeared those attempting to bring this evidence to the public. By doing this the BBC are supporting a cover-up of the true events of 9/11 and are therefore supporting those terrorist elements who were involved in certain aspects of 9/11 who have not yet been identified and held to account. A new and independent investigation is required to determine what really did occur on 9/11, and by whom, otherwise these unidentified terrorist elements will remain free to potentially commit further terrorist activities.
If you’re one of those people who put it all down to Mossad you have definitely come to the wrong site; if there was one scintilla of an iota of of an argument to be made for that one the Beeb would have given it maximum airing. They did a programme on 7/7 troofers a while back and I doubt if anyone would disagree with the conclusion that the conspiracy theories were baloney.
They get complaints from both sides, you know.
I don’t take anyone side, I just want to see the BBC, hopefully, get a good kicking.
Hey, Germima, you really ought to be taking this to BBC employees themselves. There are plenty who believe what you believe. It’s only the upper management and senior editors who have accepted the official version of events, and believe Osama Bin Laden when he discussed planning the whole thing and its success in that video they broadcast.
As you might imagine, there are currently quite a number of disgruntled BBC staff moping around, angry at the unaccountability and cynicism of their bosses. If you want to gain some real traction with your cause, go to forums like Digital Spy or other places were BBC employees hang out. Contact the lower-ranking ones on Twitter and Facebook. Don’t bother with high profile people, just go for the cameramen, magazine writers, and so on. I’d even suggest that there were a few working in the US (e.g. the ones who openly supported the Occupy movement) might be open to your ideas.
The best way for you bring the BBC down on this issue is from within. And it’s ripe for the picking.
Don’t start the BBC are bissed against Israel debate – it will create a deluge of comment !
Here it is
Thanks John.
No kicking to be had by the BBC with this junk, I’m afraid. Still, it might be amusing.
Got to love the macho ring of public sector-speak, in which tough words are a substitute for substance. A Tough Contract. That would be one where he is tied to a cane-bottomed chair and beaten to a pulp until he agrees to work for minimum wage?
Why is the BBC’s Director of Strategy paid twice the salary of Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport and even twice that of the Prime Minister. Is it so hard directing one organisations “strategy”? Even my satnav can do it. Turn Left, Left again, now Turn Left. You have reached your final destination. Workers Paradise.
Remember the wisdom of Humpty Dumpty on the meaning of words.
Depends if the word in question is “tough” or “strategy” David. I can not for the life of me see why the bBC needs a Director of Strategy. Isn’t that the DG’s job?
What “Strategy” is it lacking? It already has a clear Charter and Purpose. Its OUR license fee, OUR bBC, not some investor-funded Corporation free to set its own strategic course. Wrong title, wrong function, wrong person. Murdoch is free to Strategise – no one has to buy his product, he needs strategies. The bBC merely has to deliver its pre-ordained purpose: which it doesn’t.
We all know the appointment is a link to a future Labour Government and Pravda’s License Fee renewal. A PR boy paid to have the “right” connections to smooth the way.
The bBC is vile, an anagram of “evil”.
london calling – superb post !
The BBC’s “strategy” no longer has much to do with its Charter or Purpose. It’s mostly about, as both Jeremy Paxman and Head of Drama Ben Stephenson have explained, spreading influence and having a cultural impact on the world. (Stephenson, by the way, is the one who has previously stated that the BBC needs to encourage “left-of-centre thinking” in their programming.) Perhaps more importantly, it’s about making evil profits on the backs of their very young people being paid very low wages. Mark Thompson had defended his tenure at the BBC recently by essentially saying he made the Corporation a load of cash. Just look at how much effort and money the BBC is investing in increasing its US audience, for example. They’re doing the same thing in other countries.
Spreading its tentacles and acquiring filthy lucre is now the BBC’s “strategy”.
The Gary Walker interview after 8.30 this morning on Today was revealing.
Walker spoke well of the Stalinist mindset of the NHS at its nastiest…he praised Hunt and Dorrell( clutching at straws, but at least he was kind to such chinless wonders)…and he was clear that he was a dead man walking, unemployable ever again to the NHS for blowing the whistle on it.
He said too that no-one else should do what he did-he has publicity and some protection but others that follow will be destroyed, based on his experience…should they dare to blow the whistle as he did.
Naughtie never enquired about this night terror that the NHS….Boyles beloved, Bevans beautiful…NHS has now become, should anyone dare to go off piste and tell us some truths about Stafford, Lincolnshire and the likes. He simply was not interested in this…nor were the 9a.m news compilers for those news soundbites.
The 9a.m news?…”Walker says that the Government are not doing enough”!
Ah…but what else could it be sweetums?
As to the climate of fear re litigation for truth tellers, whistle blowers and the Stalinist sinister NHS management of fear and vindictive persecution?
We had that Miriam O Reilly working here once…what happened to her?…David Bellamy, Carole Thatcher, David Starkey?
Oh, lattes for Billy and the Reverend please sweetums!
Welcome to the Pleasuredome!
Things You Will Never Ever Ever Hear In The BBC.
1. How much? You do realise don’t you just how many £145.50s that is.
Rather they behave when it comes to ’emoluments’ as though they’re an investment bank with a four billion quid bonus pool to play with rather than a public body spending someone else’s money.
Anyway, how was the Madrid Ritz, Hugs.
They don’t got a Hilton there then?
Corruption is what it is – not under the letter of the law but ‘morally’.
Someone asked about Hugs’ per diems and out and abouts on ex’s the other day.
Shame the detail has not yet passed the redaction process.
Now she’s back in the saddle having market-rate managed things before so successfully…
Pollard Report –
78. Likewise, I am surprised that Ms Boaden does not appear to have taken a more pro-active role. I acknowledge that she was not on the gold team set up by Mr Entwistle on 11 October, but it was clear that a significant part of the division she headed was in virtual meltdown, and I would have expected her to have taken a more active role in resolving things. In correspondence between the Review and Ms Boaden’s lawyers, arguments were raised that it would be highly unfair to criticise her and to attribute any failings to her during this period, but I think that, given her position, she should have taken greater
responsibility.
… I remain unclear as to why I get to uniquely cofund her jaunts even if they are notionally to ‘do her job’.
Am I the only one to think that Boaden’s sideways move is even worse than Purnell’s appointment? She has been proven to be incapable of doing a Director’s job at the bBBC yet gets given a transfer to another unadvertised role at a similarly unjustifiable mega-salary.
One can only presume she has knowledge of many skeletons.
Pollard Report
128. One initially puzzling aspect of this is why it took so long for Ms Boaden to raise this issue with Mr Entwistle, particularly as the purpose had been so that ‘George… could start thinking about that earlier rather than later’.
The suggestion that this should be done had come from Mr Mitchell when he and
Ms Boaden talked on 23 November and more than a week had passed before
she actually spoke to Mr Entwistle about the issue. Ms Boaden’s explanation
for this is that it was the first opportunity she had had to speak to him, having
been away on holiday for a few days and then missed him at least twice when
she called by his office.
131. It is rather strange, then, that on the following day, 3 December, Mr Mitchell emailed Mr Rippon about the Savile story saying: ‘Not sure where you are with this? Helen told George E about it yesterday but said she didn’t think anything would come of it?’.
This last point is, of course, entirely inconsistent with what Ms Boaden told us – namely that she had given Mr Entwistle the clear impression that the story was likely to be broadcast.
146. There is clearly a conflict between these two accounts which is difficult to resolve.
These are the people we are meant to trust with our news?
And in Ms. Boaden’s case, if not now (I’d like to know), she was the head (or at least heading up a significant avenue of the effluent creek it is) of CECUTT too was she not?
Boaden had been after the DG’s job, which was given to Entwistle. Hell hath no fury…..
Sir Arthur, if you think anyone at the BBC Trust or the acting or coming DG think Boaden is somehow a poor manager or was responsible for any of the real problems, you’re kidding yourself. Either that or they think very little of Radio 4 and don’t mind having an incompetent but biddable apparatchik running the channel.
Speaking of which, I wonder how Radio 4 staff view this new challenge for their darling “Hugs”. Maybe they think she’s great, and place the blame on budget cuts and infighting between Meirion Jones and Peter Rippon. Many of them will have worked with her before on her way up the greasy pole. As Pollard said in his review, personal loyalty seems to be much more at a premium than loyalty to doing their jobs properly.
its called empire building. creating rolls that should not exist
Once again the BBC pisses in our faces and tells us that it is raining.
Talking of BBC contracts – remember Rhys Hughes? He was the guy promoted to the position of Head of Programmes with editorial lead at BBC Radio 1 last year. You know, the bloke who used to have an anarchist avatar on Twitter until we drew attention to it. Here are some recent tweets of his:
Imagine a senior BBC exec tweeting the virtues of conservative politics, mocking Obama for his gaffes, and goading a lefty blogger for being a sell-out. Wouldn’t happen. Someone with such political inclinations would be weeded out long before a senior management position.
He says on his Twatter page…
“These are my views, not those of my employers. We are Leeds, we are Leeds, we are Leeds…”
So that’s ok then…
His twitter page suggests he is having quite an evening.
Not so sure that in the cold, hard reality of tomorrow morning his idea of snappy repartee, in the form of rather odd paranoid taunts that have no relevance to him being called out on BBC bubble mindset, will play well with Hugs, for one.
If this is the result of ‘don’t write anything stupid’ from the market rate leadership on the top floor, I’d hate to see the result if they ever advise staff.. ‘Hey, we’re golden! Savile…McAlpine… 28Gate… walks in the park! Plus a pay rise! Feel free to shower those who are forced to pay for you with anything, and we mean anything you fancy!’
Rhys Hughes @RhysHughes
@4d2b @JunkkMale nah bring it on…..ohhhhh reds under the bed. Sorry didn’t realise it was the 1950s
If yer ‘ard enough.
Certainly comes across as just the kind of concerned chap in editorial you’d want associated with your brand’s genetic impartiality and trust.
He appears to feel he is untouchable.
Currently, this is a possibility.
However, things can move quickly in this arena.
Radio? Is that not where Ms. Boaden has now docked?
She really needs such people around her.
Dear BBC,
Why are nearly all political opinions expressed by BBC staff on Twitter from a left-wing perspective?
Yours , DB
Dear DB,
Because fuck you, that’s why.
Yours, BBC.
Nice catch, DB. FFS, it’s truly beyond parody. Someone ought to ask this fool about the “Austrian language” or whether Hawaii is in Asia, or what the Argentinians and most Beeboids privately call the Falklands.
And how he’s got editorial power. The bias is institutional, no need for a conspiracy, when they all think this way.
And how many states had he visited again?
All 56, except for Hawaii and maybe Alaska, which would make the total 57 or 58. But don’t forget, he’s a very smart guy!
57 – You hear the audience laughing at the gaffe. There are 57 states in the OIC – but only if you include Palestine.
NUJ directive to Beeboids: on strike from midnight:-
“NUJ gets ready for BBC strike”
http://www.nuj.org.uk/innerPagenuj.html?docid=2815
‘BBC jobs have been externally advertised’
Well, bar Lord Hall, Mr. Purnell & the guy who had a new role created for the job he’s waited for all his life.
And Uncurious George ‘He’ll be back’ Entwistle (see below)*, who got the job from down the corridor despite Lord Patten’s headhunting sideline scoring £300k for pretending to look outside.
*Pollard Report –
Documents produced by Lord Patten were reviewed by the BBC Trust’s lawyer with redactions made
on the grounds of legal professional privilege.
–
74. In the afternoon of 20 October, Mr Payne sent Mr Mylrea an eye-opening text message in the context of a discussion about media queries about whether Mr. Entwistle would resign:
‘Thought of the hour. PR changes blog and accepts he was wrong and goes giving panorama a scalp. GE then goes into Select saying he backed his editor as you would expect. Turns out he was wrong sad but he did the right thing and we all move on???’
Moving on? Then moving back in when the dust has settled. Very BBC. Quite unique too.
It’s all so revealing of the true character of the top BBC lifers that they wanted to scapegoat Rippon in order to protect their friend. Even though it’s become increasingly obvious that at least on of them influenced him to spike the Savile story. What they didn’t realize at the time, in my opinion, is that the BBC ended up with a better scalp than they intended. The public hanging of the Director General was a much bigger display of “We got it about right” than simply firing a behind-the-scenes editor most people never heard of. I’d say the BBC would have a much more difficult time drawing the proverbial line under the incident and moving on without such an important head on a spike outside the new Broadcasting House. Yet they didn’t grasp that, and stabbed Rippon in the back and defame Jones instead. Evidence that Pollard seems to have been right about Beeboids being more loyal to their cliques than to the BBC and doing their jobs properly.
Pollard seems to have no choice but to swallow Rippon’s temporary insanity plea (his testimony makes him sound like he had no control over his actions and was removed from a sense of right and wrong). Something influenced him to change his mind, that much is clear. He’s just keeping his mouth shut like a good soldier, holding the thin blue line. And now nobody is ever going to find out what really happened.
Unless maybe Meirion Jones can find a way to take Helen Boaden to court for defamation.
Beeboid world: was it not ever thus?
“George Entwistle in secret return to BBC.
“George Entwistle, who resigned as director-general of the BBC after 54 days, is to return to the corporation.”
By Richard Eden.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9875181/George-Entwistle-in-secret-return-to-BBC.html
Classic. Your license fee hard at work.
Its like you read my mind! You appear to know so much about this, like you wrote the book in
it or something. I think that you can do with
a few pics to drive the message home a bit, but other than that, this is fantastic
blog. An excellent read. I’ll definitely be back.