It’s not BIAS as such, more an insight into the mindset that prevails at the highest level in the BBC.
“I deserve my £330,000 BBC salary, say Yentob: Executive defends his pay packet and admits he feels uneasy about salaries paid to top star”
It’s a bit rich, if you’ll pardon the pun, to read Yentob revelling in the ££££ we pay him even as the organisation over which he presides demonises many groups of people earning so much less than £330,000.
Luckily for us that BBC pays Botney ‘the market rate’ otherwise some other broadcaster would have hired him away and he might have been off our screens forever.
Shame that would have been eh.
If I was his boss and he told me £300k was the market rate I’d work out what the actual market rate was: I’m thinking a maximum of 90K, fire his arse, offer him the opportunity to reapply for his job at the new rate and see what he does. Worse case scenario I have to employ someone else for a lot less. A lot less.
Redo across whole of BBC and public sector = much moola
That will never happen in real life because politicians have no testicles.
Too true. The vast majority of these State funded jobs could be done for much less. There are always keen young people anxious to make their name who would be ideal. Fire Yentob along with the entire BBC top layer. it would only be an improvement.
And they complain about the excesses of bankers’ salaries…
“…That will never happen in real life because politicians have no testicles.”
And because pigs at the public trough (the TV license is a tax in all but name, after all) have no interest in doing anything that might disturb their comfortable self-interest and greed. After all – it’s not real money, is it?
‘..admits he feels uneasy..’
A bit like a Boaden offer of resignation, there appear at the BBC certain words that remain just in the realms of the whispered corridor conversation.
The Yentob Song…wasn`t that one of the Goons ones?
Money Money Money…
And anybody able to tell us what Alan Yentob is for…what he`s ever done apart from share a taxi with Bowie in 1973?
With his Middle East connections-surely Iran would let HIM in to see how that gay therapy thing is going down there?
Why aren`t we sending him to check for us?…we pay the old booby enough.
And the gays would thank him for it!
Yentob perfectly epitomises a BBC senior manager, erudite, suave, brimming over with his own self importance, with his face firmly in the trough.
He’s 66 – surely it’s time they pensioned him off anyway?
They let the female presenters go when they hit their 50s, he’s done well to survive this long. Unless it’s different rules for management…
The opinion of many in the BBC is that Yentob does a nonjob.
Previous DG Mark Thompson was about to abolish Yentob’s post, but Entwistle and newly installed Hall decided to keep him.
His post as editor of the “imagine” series is little more than a glorified continuity announcer. He introduces documentaries made by someone else, usually not even by the BBC and subtly tries to hint that he has been involved. He hasn’t.
Yentob will never willingly resign, he is the ultimate culture vulture and his BBC post gets him into every cultural and artistic event in the country, often anywhere in the world, with expenses paid for by the licensing payer.
He insists on flying business class – claiming he could not do his job otherwise. Conveniently overlooking the fact that he does not do anything worthwhile within the BBC, in fact he is a drain on the organisation… And licence payer.
Poor old Yentob – he is so embarassed by his salary but he still manages to take two of them…
link here
Sack all the higher management and get the greeks in. They are struggling a bit for money in their public sector broadcasting so living wage would entice em.
Speaking of value in high places…
http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/me-too.html
‘It seems the BBC is quicker off the mark when creating jobs, rather than when closing them.’
The author has a gift for understatement.
During this period of austerity, having p*ssed away a large chunk of the licence fee on cock-ups, pay-offs, bribes, legals & lord knows what else non-programme related, the only thing the BBC market rate seem capable of is ‘Delivering Endless £300k Sinecures First’.
One is sure the reasons for this will be as unique as they are FoI exempted, but it sounds like they are ‘avin a larf with as many mates as they can get on the gravy boat before the BBC sinks under the weight of its hypocrisy.
Yentob is the BBC creative director.
Has anybody noticed just how much creativity abounds at the BBC?
Which is why they have to show repeats from 20+ years ago for entertainment.
BBC repeats 75% of daytime shows with one episode of Homes Under the Hammer shown three times in five days
or
A real TV drama: After the success of Downton Abbey and hit show Broadchurch, CHRISTOPHER STEVENS explains how ITV is killing the BBC
I think the ‘creativity’ the BBC finds in him has more to do with his possible finding excuses for when their own wrongdoings come to light. No other reason to keep him around.
“Creative” accounting, if nothing else. See Mark II’s link above concerning Bent-yob’s two salaries … Now, I wonder, why on earth are they aid like that? Any suggestions?
CORRECTION “… paid like that?”