BiasedBBC is recruiting…we’re looking for agents for our network who can successfully infiltrate and negotiate surreptitiously the labyrinthine corridors of the BBC and whistleblow, leak or steal, in BBC parlance, information that is in the Public Interest….if you are in a position to influence and guide BBC policy towards a more enlightened and impartial approach to reporting news that is an added bonus.
To that end I bring to your attention two positions that have fallen vacant at the BBC…we are nothing if not ambitious at BiasedBBC:
Director, BBC Television
The BBC is the world’s leading public service broadcaster.
As a member of the Executive board, reporting to the Director-General, this role will play a significant part in the BBC’s strategy and output, ensuring that the BBC always holds the trust of the people who pay for it and distinguishes itself through the best possible content, effective distribution and organisational efficiency. As an inspirational leader with a strong, clear vision, you’ll bring extensive experience of leadership in a creative organisation, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.
Director, BBC News
BBC News Group is responsible for all the BBC’s news and current affairs. Leading a team across the world, you’ll be responsible for content that will reach 80% of UK adults each week and 250 million people in more than 100 countries globally each day. You’ll have overall editorial and managerial responsibility for UK-wide and global news and current affairs on radio, television and online.As a member of the Executive board, reporting to the Director-General, this role will play a significant part in the BBC’s strategy and output, ensuring that the BBC always holds the trust of the people who pay for it and distinguishes itself through the best possible content, effective distribution and organisational efficiency. As an inspirational leader with a strong, clear vision, you’ll bring extensive experience of leadership in a creative organisation, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.
- Closing date for applications
- 10 March 2013 at 11:59pm
The real criteria for the jobs….a willingness to work for enormously rewarding remuneration and a gold plated pension, a desire for generous legal funding should your underlings let you down, a hands off approach to management and the ability to stay calm in a crisis by keeping above the mêlée, and the delegation of blame…sorry…responsibility downwards to your staff demonstrating trust in their abilities.
Should you be successful in your application BiasedBBC look forward to a long and successful career for you and hope you can pass along some useful gossip before you go native and are subsumed by the BBC culture and comfortable lifestyle that seduces people into surrendering their principles in exchange for life in the BBC bubble.
…and remember this is of critical importance:
‘…ensuring that the BBC always holds the trust of the people who pay for it…..and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.‘
I quite fancied the newly-invented job of bBBC Director of Strategy. £295,000 a year, and a gold-plated pension would be nice. But unfortunately it wasn’t advertised and was given directly to another bBBC-Labour insider.
Perhaps the person-specification stated it would be unlikely that anyone but a former Labour minister and former Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport would have the requisite experience and contacts in the future Labour Government…oh, whoops… thats let the cat out of the bag.
“But unfortunately it wasn’t advertised and was given directly to another bBBC-Labour insider.”
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These BBC ‘rules’ seem more ‘guidelines’ and open to as much abuse as Hugs Boaden ‘please don’t’ on twitter stupidity.
Purnell is a toady of Murdoch. Suggest you read Private Eye this issue which points out why the Murdoch press was so quiet about this. Purnell is probably as socialist as Gove.
I thought everyone in the Labour elite toadied up to Murdoch at one time?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2011/sep/05/tony-blair-murdoch-family-fold
Private Eye under Hislop is as trustworthy as the bBC ie not.
You’ve never read Private Eye if you believe that. I would have thought it obligatory reading for BBBC as most of the BBC stories originate from it.
Of course it treats Murdoch with the utter disgust he richly deserves.
I’ve subscribed to Private Eye since they started accepting subscriptions. *However*, I have recently informed Lord Gnome that his glaring omissions on two subjects, the biased BBC and supposed global warming, have left his subs jacket hanging on a shaky nail when it next needs attention.
“treats Murdoch with the utter disgust he richly deserves”
Why? Standard Lefty echo-chamber. Murdoch’s a successful man whose wealth comes from giving people what they want. What is disgusting about that? The loss-making Guardian is funded off the back of the sale of AutoTrader. The bBC takes my money by force. THAT is what is disgusting.
Ive read the odd Private Eye when left on the seat of a train coming from Brighton. It harps on about the misdemeanours of only one side and refuses to mention the greatest fraud of the century global warming. Gets shy on matters beginning with M when the brave Charlie Hebdo in France got firebombed by Muslim Extremists for publishing a cartoon. Hislop has no spine, he sold out long ago.
You pick who you are disgusted by and admire with unerring lack of judgement Coldtitz. Now run along, boy.
‘Of course it treats Murdoch with the utter disgust he richly deserves’.
And The Mail. Last time I picked up a copy 90% of ‘Street of Shame’ was slagging it off. Which coincides nicely with a recurring theme on Have I Got News For You.
“Private Eye under Hislop is as trustworthy as the bBC ie not. ”
Too true. Hislop has established himself as a pillar of the BBC and he’s hardly likely to bit the hand that feeds him.
Private Eye is trustworthy on the middle- and lower-level gossip. Did Hislop break the 28-Gate story or Savile or Balen?
Murdoch is the turncoat you moron Colditz.
Murdoch supports the party who he thinks will help him sell the most Newspapers.
“But unfortunately it wasn’t advertised because it was created specifically for another bBBC-Labour insider. “
Fixed that for you.
I read a discarded Guardian newspaper in 1985 once – does this count as over-qualification.
I’m not going to waste my time applying! No doubt the successful applicant is already under their nose and is likely to be someone recycled from within
a) The BBC
b) The Labour Party
c) The Guardian
or probably will have worked for all three.
My money is on Owen Jones
“BBC to advertise TV and radio top jobs.
New director general seeks to complete team, with Roger Mosey, Danny Cohen and Peter Salmon among those in the running.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/feb/15/bbt-tv-radio-top-jobs
Clearly, Director General HALL, as a Labour Parfty supporter, and appointer of Labour’s PURNELL in key position, wants to save the BBC-NUJ political Labour programme ‘Newsnight’.
The obvious candidate, to fit with the Labour Party ethos of the BBC hierarchy, is ‘Newsnight’s NUJ Father of the Chapel, Comrade MASON.
‘“BBC to advertise TV and radio top jobs.”
On the one hand, one supposes that this erratic commitment to required process is on occasion being adhered to should be applauded, but on the other the waste of yet more money on yet another old boy stitch up to boost Patten’s headhunter firms fees is getting epidemic.
The Conservative Party might also want to speak to the mole…
Conservatives go to war on ‘bias’ at the BBC – http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/bbc/9890162/Conservatives-go-to-war-on-bias-at-the-BBC.html
Jeff
We have been telling the Tories that they needed to deal with the BBC or lose the forthcoming and several more elections .They have had their chances eg a full public inquiry into the Savile affair , but they settled for a cosy in house investigation which allowed the BBC to redact whatever they found unpalatable.
The only way they can do anything about the problem before the next election is to find a way to dismiss some of the BBC lefties and put in place some proper managers and journalists who will present the nation with the truth instead of Labour propaganda. But there is no chance that they will have the balls to do this.
The next Labour government will give the BBC more money and more control of new technology in an effort to ensure that they continue to reap the benefits of having their chums in the state funded broadcaster in control of the news agenda in the country across all possible outlets.
The Tories have made a major strategic error.
Deep despair.
Agreed Dt, however it must still be an option to have instigate a full enquiry. The only way that this rats nest will be cleaned out is to use the disinfectant of light and scrutiny. Dealing with the left wing bias within the news media is the game changer that is absolutely essential before the next election. Leaving things unchallenged is only a recipe for a defeat that will set the political left wing landscape for the next 15 years!
Dont hold your breath waiting for this useless Tory Govt. to take any action. So far they can’t even see the problem, let alone any solution. The useless Tories are marching toward their doom. Hopeless, utterly hopeless. Britain under liebour is doomed too. Last briton out turn out the lights.
Agreed,though I’m not a supporter, I wonder why the tories’ dont just rip into the BBC.
They have far more to gain than lose that way.
‘Last briton out turn out the lights’.
Won’t be necessary…..
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/energy/9889184/One-day-turning-off-the-lights-wont-be-up-to-you.html
Makes you want to weep, doesn’t it?
The Tories can do nothing because they’ll be made to seem like they’re attacking Blue Peter and the documentaries and costume dramas. Until people are able to separate in their minds the news & current affairs stuff from the rest of the output, nothing can be done. Not even the severest BBC critic among them is capable of doing this, so good luck.
True, sadly.
Though an appeal on an honest factual basis would be my preferred route, in this day and age messages need massaging, which some grasp and exploit, whilst others blunder around and get side-swiped easily. £4Bpa deployed consistently 24/7 across multiple platforms can carry a lot of sway.
If the Savile affair, botched cover-up and current multi-million £ ‘the King is dead, long live the same King with a different title, plus a score of £300k courtiers’ hasn’t even caused a ripple in the dark side of the Farce, it’s hard to imagine what might subsequently.
However the BBC’s capacity for pulling rancid new rabbits from its trusty hat has proven as reliable as it regular.
They may yet push that big red button Blofeld seems to keep for such occasions in the bunker.
Or, given their near shameless shilling for the two Eds and their merry crew, it may be hitching the BBC wagon so overtly to Labour’s knackered nag will see both yet go over the cliff together.
Dave & Nick are pretty dire, but the shadow dwellers are a level of incompetence and venality lower, and the entire non-productive sector bought under their spell might not yet rig the vote irreparably.
Maybe part of the problem is that ‘Dave’ thinks that his fellow liberals at the Beeb are on his side, without realizing that your average Guardian reader would rather stick needles in their eyes than vote for him, however much he tries to (as he sees it) detoxify the brand…
Jeff
“Call Me Dave” knows that the Beeboids aren’t on his side. But he’s as intellectually incapable of dealing with it as the Beeboids themselves are of dealing with the issue of fundamentalist caveman Islam growing in Britain.
Absolutely Jeff, Cameron thinks he will attract Labour supporters by barely cutting anything at all. In return he is continually savaged by the left/BBC for his ‘savage’ cuts! He thought that the socialists would appreciate his approach. What a dickhead. If he thought the average Guardian reading socialist would ever vote for the Conservatives he needs his head examined. He should have cut deep and fast when he had the chance. The response from the loony left would have been no different, but at least he would have done something useful.
Trouble is, David, even Blue Peter, documentaries and costume dramas are riddled with their agenda. I’m expecting wind turbines to feature heavily in the backdrops to the next BBC Dickens adaptation.
I’m aware of that, johnny, but the heavily biased Beeboids in charge of the News and in the top positions are largely responsible for making that happen as well, e.g. 28-Gate.
The primary reason “Yes, (Prime) Minister was so great, and appealed to both sides of the political spectrum, is that they had an ideological balance in the writing. Fast-forward to today, where even Rod Liddle admits that that sort of thing didn’t even occur to his friends at Radio 4 when they brought in Will Self to be the intellectual leader of the channel.
I realize that eliminating the cancer of/in the News division won’t prevent things like RT Davies having Tennant’s nostrils flare at the Thatcher proxy over the Belgrano, but it would make that sort of thing incidental, and happen less often, rather than constant and deliberate.
It might also go some way towards stopping the BBC hiring complete effing idiots like the kind “Hugs” moaned about who thought they couldn’t report on black people committing crimes because of the BBC’s diversity policy.
“demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC.‘”
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Defend, obfuscate, deny, redact… Call in the FoI exemption lawyers?
That’s how you get it about right.
PURNELL.
This is, of course, who Director General Hall appointed as his right-hand man, to re-enforce the present and future BBC-NUJ-Labour Party political alliance:
“Former Labour minister lands £300,000 BBC job: James Purnell faces accusations of bias.
“Ex-Culture and Work and Pensions Secretary resigns party membership.
£He will be a key figure in BBC charter renewal negotiations
Purnell will become one of the Corporation’s most powerful executives.”
By PAUL REVOIR
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2278944/Former-Labour-minister-lands-300-000-BBC-job-James-Purnell-faces-accusations-bias.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
On the subject of leaks, I am disappointed to say the least, that no one has been able to publish a copy of the Balen report on the internet. Is the bbc security so tight that it is better than the US military, or the UK parliament expenses data? Surely there is a digital version somewhere, surely there is one honourable person within the bbc organism who has access and a willingness to put it in the public domain? No? Then the bbc selection process, or their indoctrination program for their paid automatons must be world-beating. Or, don’t socialists ever want the truth to be told?
I know. You’d think Anonymous or the BBC’s darlings at Wikihacks would be interested in freeing this information from government secrecy. Yet, curiously, they can’t be bothered. It shows them all for what they truly are.
I don`t know if any of you say last weeks Mail with Peter Hitchens.
He basically said that he`d rather have his free lawyers to be around for if and when he might be arrested for stating his truths.
Talk about prophecy…nobody who watched QT on Thurs night can doubt that the likes of Mr Hitchens will be the first to be “massaged away! The likes of Hezza or Prezza are the only games in town that will be played out in front of us if we do not smell up and smell the horseshit…not even meat.
I`m near at the stage when its time to get away from the usual rants and create some kind of pH meter in some way. It`s getting nasty out there/here at the minute…
Wake up and smell the coffee says our latest “massage boy”….time to see some real changes.
Anybody else fancy a Friends Of Peters group?(FOP)…or esle we`ll be seeing the few brave ones getting picked off soon.
They`ll allow us places to bitch alright…like this…but `we`re rapidly sliding into the horseshit if we don`t start to think on what we all saw on Thursday.
My two cents…nearly over and out!
If Labour get their way with press regulation, then win in 2015, he is probably right.
When you look at how Labour managed to kill open debate about, for example, mass immigration in their 13 short centuries in power, if they then get another go at it their imposition of ‘thought crimes’ we have all come to know and respect will seem tame by comparison.
Also Leveson’s recommendations would give advocacy groups the right to complain if they believed a report portrayed a section of the population in an unfavourable light. I read some weeks ago of one organisation who are ready to jump in because they feel the ‘youth’ of Britain are being demonised. Needless to say there was another one ready to fight ‘negative’ portrayals of Islam. The freedom of speech implications of this for the likes of journalists and politicians are all too apparent.
The left does not and will not accept the validity of a conservative viewpoint. Conservatives ( real ones) are either perverse or malevolent.
“Reality is liberalism”. A bit like saying war is peace or some such garbage. .
Peter Hitchens understands the tyrrany at the heart of modern liberalism.
Labour’s Harman looking for a top BBC job?
What is Purnell for?
“Labour to examine opportunities for older women in public life”
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-21564395
Labour to examine opportunities for older Labour women in public life? I thought that’s what Quangos were for – to provide employment opportunities for older Labour women.
Not restricted of course to Wimmin, but Gordon’s placewomean ladies across the NHS and various oversight bodies have proven quite stellar in their accomplishments… If you have shares in funeral directors.
Yet the first two top BBC jobs have gone to more white men in their 50s. Ah, well, at least the BBC can say they’ve listened to complaints because they ran this press release from one of their friends in the Labour Party.
Two thoughts:
1. ‘…As an inspirational leader with a strong, clear vision, you’ll bring extensive experience of leadership in a creative organisation, and demonstrate a clear understanding of the public service ethos of the BBC…’
Straight out of the Common Purpose playbook.
2. If I had a single political wish it would be to lock David Cameron in a room for 18 hours with nothing but a radio set that could only be switched between BBC Radio 4 and BBC 5 Live.
If that didn’t wake him up I would have to conclude that he ain’t a Tory.
On point 2 I think we all know Cameron is no conservative.
“you’ll be responsible for content that will reach 80% of UK adults each week”
Yet the pervasive influence of the Murdoch press is supposed to be the problem. 🙄
‘“you’ll be responsible for content that will reach 80% of UK adults each week”
Mind you, though the reactions to the content are indeed the responsibility of the creators, Pollard has rather clearly shown no one within the BBC is accountable.
That makes for a subtle, unique, difference.
Especially to any seeking to get in, to get away with stuff. A point not lost on the scores being signed up on £300k market rate non-jobs daily, from oddly uni-directional tribal camps..
“BBC bosses are a craven bunch of XXXXXXXXX and XXXXXX
(Redacted for legal reasons)”
By PETER MCKAY
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-2283917/I-didn-t-know-isnt-improvement-I-didnt-know-Its-prompt-out-jail-card.html
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