Quote from Fran Unsworth

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1. - Wild - says:

   December 16, 2017 at 1:08 am

   “Our mission continues to be to provide information that can be trusted”

   If some of the people who pay your wages think you have failed in that ambition, if they think you are a source of disinformation and spin, using your tax funding to undermine your competitors, in the meantime giving yourself a fat living because you think you are worth it, if some of the people think you stifle debate, and demonise those who disagree with your Guardian reader political views, that you are a propaganda channel for the public sector middle class Left, do you give those people the option not to pay for your content, or do you send them to prision if they refuse?

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2. - Wild - says:

   December 16, 2017 at 1:18 am

   The BBC is the epitome of the middle class Left in this Country, in its greed, in its intolerance, and its sheer abuse of power. Scrap it.

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3. Guest Who says:

   December 16, 2017 at 7:28 am

   Despite Brexit:

   http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/next.html

   “A modest 57% rise in January for new BBC News boss Fran Unsworth, who will be paid the same as James Harding – £340k”

   Liberals, eh? Maybe Mrs. May should petition Lord Hall Hall?

   http://tradingaswdr.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/its-fran.html

   Sounds a keeper.

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   • NCBBC says:

     December 17, 2017 at 3:49 pm

     The looting of the public purse in the NHS, universities, and the BBC, reminds me ( in a minor way), of the looting of the public assets of Russia after the fall of the USSR.

     NHS managers first, then the BBC paying non-entities with media studies degrees, outrageous six figure salaries, and now university VC’s – all of them think they are worth it.

     They are not.

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4. john in cheshire says:

   December 16, 2017 at 9:23 am

   I don’t know much at all about this woman and care even less but from what I’ve read, maybe she should change her name to jobsworth. As in it would be more than my job’s worth to actually try to change the far-left bbc’s bias.

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5. MarkyMark says:

   December 16, 2017 at 10:42 am

   Fran Un(new)s Worth(y)?

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6. Englands Dreaming says:

   December 17, 2017 at 10:29 am

   There is an interesting article which gives some incite into life in the hive on the Beeb website

   Fran Unsworth’s hellish new job
   http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-42365957

   Well the hellish job is going to be 340k. Which is a lot, but…..

   “That is a huge salary, though it is worth noting that American counterparts in charge of organisations of comparable size would be paid several multiples of that.”

   But of course there is no comparable news organisation in the US like the Beeb, so her chances of getting a $1m+ job in the US is probably about zero.

   “Unfortunately, the sorry financial state of much modern media means that editors’ time is increasingly spent doing less fun things, like begging advertisers for money, or sacking people.”

   Well the Beeb gets £3.4bn from the UK public, so hardly in dire straits nor does the advertising reference apply. Sacking people, hopefully she will do a lot of that.

   “I don’t know and haven’t asked, but I would suspect that at times, at least a third of the job involves justifying decisions, often taken by people several rungs beneath you.”

   All you need to know in the first sentence, he DOES NOT KNOW!!!!

   Then there is a section about Brexit coverage and impartiality, well the proof of the pudding is in the eating and we know the majority commentators. panellists, are Remainers, so nice try…..

   And then there is the budget squeeze poor Frau Unsworth will have to contend with:

   “Aside from all these daily traumas, the financial challenge is immense: about £80m has to be saved from BBC News, and quickly too.

   I spoke to one final round candidate this week about how these savings would be found. I asked if the best route to £80m was salami slicing (ie taking out a proportion from several different bits) or big, symbolic, chunky cuts, like losing particular programmes, or even channels.

   Their response was: the trouble is, even after you do both – ie cut lots of big stuff and salami slice – you still get nowhere near the £80m.”

   Now £80m sounds a lot, but what isnt mentioned is the overall budget, so impossible to say if 80m is 1% or 10%, so in effect a meaningless number. And if you (really) make cuts how can you not reduce the budget significantly!!!! For starters I suggest pension off John Humphrey’s and close down BBC Pidgin.

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   • lojolondon says:

     December 19, 2017 at 7:58 am

     No other organisation comes close to the Biased BBC for the lack of interest they show in their viewer’s perspective, they get to impose their political views on the world with no checks and balances, especially not viewing statistics, costs, revenues or any of the real world problems that a senior exec at any other media organisation faces.

     Basically, Franny’s job comes down to keeping Labour and Hamas happy and exposing the ‘extreme right wing’ (that means everyone else).

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