Category Archives: BBC wages

So, who feels sorry for BBC D-G Mark Thompson who moans he is paid but a third of someone doing the same job in the private sector? Isn’t it awful? I wonder that instead of Children In Need we should have a “DG in Need” – a chance for the nation to put their hand in their pocker and see if we can bridge the wage gap for poor Mark? Then AGAIN there is the pesky reality that Thompson and the rest of the BBC fatcats have the security of tenure of the State sector with salaries out of all proportion to others in this sector. I was invited onto the Nolan Show to discuss this earlier today but had no spare time. My issue is not so much the expenses, nor even the wages – it is that State funded broadcasting is anachronistic, massively expensive, biased and dangerous to liberty.